Schneider chat room - Closed see new thread linked in the last post

LOL I do 15-25 drops a DAY LOL ((WINK)). But then again i do local P&D, but labor is using that dang pallet jack and trying to move some of these 2-5k lb pllts to the end of the trailer when the trailer is roasting at over 110 degrees and the customer wants to take forever or has no clue how to run the forlk lift.....or better yet,...... they come and say, "its hand unload"..... wth! lol but i love my work!

 

I thought you were hauling crude oil? What happened?

 

no no i dont haul crude yet. im signed up to start schniders tank div... working on when i can start training, but im waiting to hear from another freight comapny here. id rather stay busy all day than wait all day for tanks to drain lol. but i will haul tanks if it comes to it. im goin thru the beginning stages of a divorce so i have to have hrs that work for my kiddos. hard decisions need to be made right now on which job i pick :/

 

Stuck in Assachussetts, awaiting a new assignment after the one I was suppose to go to got snowballed by an all night live load and retread blow out today. Was told freights soft in MAss, really? It is fourth of July after all, but fret not I for if their task to keep me moving fails, my eager husband hatched a scheme to see me. Yup, gotta love the unpredictability of trucking. Never boring, but plenty of fodder to b**ch about.

 

I can understand that. Going thru some drama myself with my recently ex-husband. He keeps up with drama and mess trying to take me back and forth thru court. Hard to really make a definite decision when I don't know when his next scheme is going to be. Not good to start my trucking career having to ask for time off for court. I've even had to put off studying for my HazMat just so that I could prepare for a court date coming up. Just makes me mad

 

come back from TAH today, to find out my DBL has been out for a week, and no one will tell me why.

Then, my "fill in" dbl sends me my load, at first I was like cool, 600 miles.....then reality set in, to Queens NY, BLAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I hate NY, what a nice present after TAH.

 

Any advice on how to move from a dedicated account to drive regional in a different region when your DBL and office manager say you cannot transfer? This lane and move to this part of the country are not working for me.

I hesitate to push too hard about this in my local office because the quality of my work/living experience here has a lot to do with the truck I'm assigned (slip seat job) and the loads I'm given. If the only way to get this done is to have a big dispute with the people who control how much money I make and whether or not I drive the oldest, nastiest truck in the yard I might as well just go find another job where I want to live because I'm not prepared to wait here getting ###### trucks and 1500 miles a week until they decide it's ok to "release" me to another lane.

FWIW and for any schneider people reading this, I've mostly had a good experience in this company and I would really like to stay with the company; I have personal reasons for needing to return to another part of the country and work a different schedule. I recognize some of these dedicated lanes need drivers and can understand why they'd do whatever they can do to keep drivers. My case here is that I've done good work here and all I'm asking is to go do good work somewhere else that works better for me. It's not a lot to ask, especially when there are open jobs paying recruitment bonuses where I want to go.


Thanks in advance for your advice. If you have any specifics on who to speak with or email I would appreciate them.

 

This^^^^^^^^

If I find out my DBL is gone, cause they are being all hush hush, I will be informing them I am moving to one of the dedicated accounts here. My DBL is the only reason I have stayed OTR. If they won't let me move, I will be moving on.