What to do?

I have been driving for Schneider for a month now and have yet to be
home on the time they said I would. I have an stl and a trip planner.
I can't talk to trip planner only stl, maybe they do this on purpose to
pass the buck I don't know.

Should I threaten to bobtail home? Should I be paticent?
Integrity is our second core value and this is not integrity.

I wouldnt mind staying out for 2 months if I did have to take care
of business at hm.

What do I do?

Here is wishing you many safe miles ahead.

Randy W.

 

First are you getting home at all? or is your complaint that your not getting home on the days that they said you would?....that information would make answering your question a little bit easier.

 

Sounds like you're a newbie driver. If you are, you need to buck up and take it. I know you're ****** off, but get that year in before you quit, unless you want to have to rely on help-wanted-ad (desperate) companies for your next job. You're standing at that job-hoppers' whirlpool, man. Back away and accept this. You don't want to fall in. Hang tough and they'll get you home. Eventually. Don't do anything rash like drive the truck home without permission. They'll terminate you and bust your DAC. After that, you'll be looking in the newspaper for a trucking job because no good company will touch you.

 

Make your voice heard. as soon as they learn they can not **** with you, they will get you home... Your stl will use the excuse they don't plan your trip, to negate their responsibilty, to you the driver.
Do you enter you request for time off on the qual- comm? if so remind your
stl, that can be usded in a court of law .... DO NOT i repeat DO NOT BOBTAIL HOME, THEY WILL CHARGE YOU FOR THE FUEL THE TRUCK USDED
PLUS AFTER THEY FIRE YOU(THEY WILL), THEY WILL CHARGE YOU THE COST TO RECOVER THE TRUCK. THEY HAVE EVERY LEGAL RIGHT TO DO IT.
JUST STAND YOUR GROUND WITH THEM, AND YOU SHOULD GET HOME ONTIME.

 

I had off time for the 18 and 19 of november and was off 29hrs.
I had off time for dec 2 and 3. and havent made it home for that.
It makes you look like a jerk when you tell someone you will
be home and your not.

 

Man, Do you work for them? He will encounter this with every company
out there. if he "Bucks up and takes it" And "Accept's it" he will be doing it his whole career.. "If you don't stand for somthing,you'll fall for everything"..
I REPEAT, DON"T BOBTAIL HOME

 

I'm tellin' you man, just cool off and don't let it get to you. Don't quit these guys. This will pass. A year from now you'll be able to go to a better outfit. If you quit Schneider, you'll be sitting at "square negative one", meaning you'll be worse off than a graduate just coming to a new job. Future companies will see you as someone who got in a month, got impatient, and quit. They'll shy away from you if they're worth working for. You don't need it. Stay away from the whirlpool. Stay away from having to rely on crappy companies that advertise constantly in the papers. Stay in that truck is what I'm sayin'.

 

I understand, every company i have ever drove for tred to pull the same thing,, but they learned real quick that i was'ent going to take it.

 

I was like you when I first started, Paid. I've quit companies because I got ****** off at somebody at those outfits who had no morals or ethics. If I would have hung on with those companies, I probably would have been better off later. In fact, I know I would have been, assuming I would have stayed in trucking. You'll have to accept this as just another part of trucking or turn in your CDL. Until you get some good experience in, assuming you're green, you will have to buck up.

 

I know beter than to bobtail home. I was just thinking of making that a idle threat to tell them, Im doing my part now do yours.