Running With Schneider!

Have you ever been an o/o?
I know I was on the board a little over year and half ago and working with them about getting back on it.. I did have a couple of checks that were $0 but my next check was over $1900 each time so you can average that out. But what I did was budget weekly, because you can almost book yourself for the week.. Now not always the case , but you have to learn what lanes are working for you based on where you live and where the money is.. took my a good month to learn that by watching the board and talking to a couple of people in my orientation class back and forth... If you have never been an o/o it's a challenge, not saying you can't do it, but be prepared to having the learning curve so to speak and have you ups and downs till you pick it up.. It's going to matter how fast you learn and how much time your willing to spend on learning the lanes and playing with board and the biggest help is if you get in with someone already on the board that can give you pointers to how it all works hope that helps

 

I am not an O/O. I would be a new driver first year fresh out of School. I plan on getting some OTR experience, because every position I really want is asking for 1-2 years of OTR. I plan on trying to pickup a regional out of Fontana. Right now we are making it on $450/wk unemployment. I really want to have a career and better myself and and my life.

 

When I was a company driver I was making a bare min of 500/wk average and that's if I wasn't running that hard.. And that was right at 4 years ago. Haven't been a company driver since then.. So you should be fine if you get hooked up with a good company that will let you grow like your wanting to with them.. Schneider is a good company to grow with due to the fact they have multiple options once you get the experience..Once you have gotten in at least 6 months they should let you look at o/o but I recommend that you get at least your year in and then look at your options, probably go to o/o with the mileage program and run it for 6 months or so before looking at the Choice board.. That is just my opinion and I'm just one driver in a world of many but have been a company driver and went to the o/o after just 6 months over the road exp and really kicked my butt so I went back to being a company driver and started doing a lot of research talking to drivers and getting as much input as possible.. Once I had that I then went back to being an o/o and haven't looked back since

 

Does the money you deposit into your maintenance account each week just keep building up year after year or is there a cap on it? Is it your money? Can you roll it over into the balloon at the end of the lease? Thanks.....

 

I know you are running back east alot but if you want, can you run mostly up and down CA, OR, WA, UT? I understand the fact it won't pay as well but I've seen how much they pay on the board for a load from fontana area to sacramento lol and theres plenty of loads going back and forth when I asked an IC what the board looked like. Just wondering btw thanks.