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TEs make decent money. My TE said that he gets hourly and the CPM that the trainee drives

TEs can make some pretty good money!

I talked to a guy on the GP account. He said they give people on his account Dry van loads to make up for the miles. // For me, I'm convinced they look at total pay and try to keep it around that number. // I edited this to say that my theory is that they do everything in fairness. They can't give you more because not everybody can handle more. Just my theory!

I agree dedication is the most important thing in every business

As a business what is your thoughts on it to grow to next level

How can I contact you have some products to share

I agree best work

Great lessons, thank you

Experience makes a man perfect. You are superb

I like your "Business Bites" idea. Are most of your business ideas around truck driving only? Most of my business ideas will probably revolve around computer programs, as that will be mostly all I have contact with in my downtime. If I do start driving I plan on staying on the road and rarely ever being at home so I will focus on exercising and creating things using a laptop. Also, out of curiosity, if the trucking company doesn't have any loads for you and you don't want to go back home is it difficult to just stay in your sleeper for a few days?

Retention fees should be an industry law, we sit way too much for bullshit reasons.

Great truth spoken here, I run the western states, hope to catch you out there sometime.

Go hourly!

Wow you knowledge is amazing

Wildland fire fighters in the red and green trucks..

Good message, a lot of truth.

If youre getting a lot of flats/blowouts I'd question your pre/post trips. Do you have an air gauge? Are you just kicking the tires?

you are out of touch with reality, if you are not owner operator you dont have the Wright to judge the market, we are in extreme bad situation and you telling me some weeks are good, nothing is good

Good analysis. Keep up the positive attitude and right mindset which I believe you possess.

I was making $1100 a week home on friday out on monday at schneider back in 2017, if your making less than that and/or working more you need to get out. know what you are worth.

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I stopped caring so much about their numbers when I realized that WE have very little control over these numbers. THEY are the ones that give is the assignments. Whose fault is it that they make me do LOCAL relays that lower most of my statistics down, etc.. Whose fault is it that I cannot drive 7+ hours because they only gave me 200 miles for the day, etc... ??? This is why I'm just there for the experience!

Incompetence

Don't let your mega-carrier experiences convince you that all the incompetence, disorganization, extreme micromanagement and rigamarole is normal. Many small companies (under 100 trucks) have former truck drivers working as dispatchers and load planners who know what's going on and treat drivers like human beings. Go smaller.

These companies should pay a chunk of cash on top of miles for botched loads -- not scheduled, load not actually there, another driver picked it up, etc. It's criminal that they just throw a handful of change for the miles to the pick-up and give you a token "Oopsie! Sorry!", especially at Schneider where, in my experience, they usually wouldn't have anything else until the next day so the day was wasted. I gave them sixteen months on OTR and I, to this day, struggle to understand why anybody likes them. I get that experiences vary, but by every crucial metric, they were awful. The only thing I can give them any credit for is training me for my CDL and getting me starting experience. After that, all downhill: Go out three months? Still only get five days off. Yup, I did it once and usually went out for two. My current company offers an extra day off for every extra six days you stay out. I'm on a six month run and so I'll get a month off when it's over. Can count on my hands how many loads went over 1k miles and on one hand how many went over 1,500. Current company throws me something going 2k miles once a week and the rest are almost always over 600. Their updated fuel solution system was broken for about six months before I left making it impossible to get the fuel compliance bonus. And of course, I got blamed for the low compliance. Overnight dispatch never actually solved anything and left the problem for first shift in the morning leaving me sitting around often and day shift only ever wanted to throw the company book at me instead of listening to me and doing a little out-of-the-box strategizing to get things done. Current company actually works _with_ me on the silly scenarios I find myself in when shippers are being difficult, loads are tight on hours, or systems aren't working. They were almost entirely a day-run company so if you're a night owl like me, good luck. The bonus they said I'd get for staying for six months was actually a slight raise of about a five cents rather than what every other company in every other industry I've ever worked for called a raise. They start you below the pay grade, pick it up to the full rate at six months, and call it a bonus. Absurd. I don't mind the practice itself especially with how many people don't stick around (gee, wonder why), but don't lie and call it a bonus. That just ruins your credibility. No Personal Conveyance or grace policies for hours running out thanks to shippers/consignees taking too long on loading/unloading. 14 or 70 runs out? You're on your own and it's your fault no matter what! Bumper sensor (On-Guard system) was throwing false positives multiple times a day for months (slamming my brakes without anything being there) and dispatcher wouldn't let me take it into any of the shops because the mechanics wouldn't be able to get to it until the next morning. Even if was _already out of hours for the day anyway,_ my dispatcher would tell me to get back to work and try another place. Finally, he calls me back to my home terminal in Wilmer for a check ride with a safety and regulatory member who had me drive about fifteen minutes around Southside Dallas. The system didn't go off once during the whopping fifteen minute drive so Mr.Regulatory blamed me and said it was my driving. End of first year review guy pulled up the false positives straight from the truck diagnostics and saw it wasn't me. It took him less than a minute, but he was the only one who bothered to do it. I spent the month after the bogus check ride being treated like a bad driver because the office personnel were too lazy to launch an honest investigation. Yippee. Nothing like going to the company to have a safety issue addressed just to get blamed entirely. Really motivated me to communicate more often with my "support network"... You're expected to drive eight hours a day and if you stop a little earlier to set yourself up to be able to find the safe and legal parking that they demand instead of running around the East Coast at 11PM after your 14 is out looking for a place to park, they call you up to complain and tell you that it's not an excuse. But let them catch you on a shoulder or running over your 14 and see what they tell you -- "You should have trip planned better." Unbelievable. Plan to run at better hours for parking by stopping a little early the day before, and they complain. Run eight hours the day before to meet that metric and can't find parking the next day -- they complain. You're set up to fail right out of the gate. Anyway, I could go on, but again, I really don't understand the appeal and I'm way happier at my second employer. Hopefully other people are doing better, but I _highly_ recommend you get that first year on your resume and looking around. Schneider has one of the absolute worst retention rates in the industry right now and it's for a reason. Lol.

I left Schneider 3 years ago because of problems like this. In my case it was happening weekly. Sounds like nothing has changed. In my case they kept telling me they are “working on it,” but things only continued being bad. My advice to you if this continues is to wait until you have a year under your belt. If things haven’t gotten better by then, you should probably start looking elsewhere. Definitely wait though until after November though. The economy is in the tank right now and a lot of companies aren’t hiring, and if they are it will usually be companies nobody wants to work for. After November we’ll have a better idea of what direction the economy is likely to go.

I agree with you, corporate is too focused on 'hitting' the numbers. There was one content creator that made a very good point; he stated that ALL dispatchers and back office people that interact with drivers should be required to go out with a driver for at least 2 weeks to 1 month. That would open their minds to what drivers go through and what they have to deal with. I know that Schneider is a good company and the reason why I am about to re-enter the trucking industry through them. I start orientation next week; I know it will be a big big sacrifice - especially coming from the IT industry for over 20 year. But here we go. Hang in there brother.

Hey can someone please tell me where schneider normally take hair from for the hair test? Ive quit smoking to better my future but I'm afraid they might take it from my chest or other areas that I never shave. Marijuana can stay in hair forever unless shaved and new hair grows. So I'm wondering if i have enough hair on my head will they take it from the head or choose wherever they want to take it from?

Hey can someone please tell me where schneider normally take hair from for the hair test? Ive quit smoking to better my future but I'm afraid they might take it from my chest or other areas that I never shave. Marijuana can stay in hair forever unless shaved and new hair grows. So I'm wondering if i have enough hair on my head will they take it from the head or choose wherever they want to take it from?

Superb work done. You are underrated

Wow this is superb.

Work union or a "good" non union and get paid miles and hourly for wait time and breakdown time.

Looks like most of my weeks! Similar miles too!! BTW - Existing employees can't apply for those jobs on that Schneider jobs page. That's only for non-employees. Employees have to look on Compass.

I'm a long-time driver, and your level-headed approach is spot on.Remember at Schneider, you're a small fish in a big pond.

I have high regards for you. You guys are awesome

I just quit last Friday!! Schneider was okay, learned a lot and they trained me well. Going to a flatbed company in a week. Good luck Dave, Schneider be like that. Hopefully it gets better

I drove from NYC to Allentown PA in the worst fkng rain, and all the big rigs doing 70+. I don't get it. Why so unsafe!!!!😡😡😡

Last weekend, I drove from Dallas, TX to NE Pennylvania. People think that "longer drive = more money" but I'm pretty sure they keep us around their average weekly $$$, even if we are efficient enough to do more; they won't let us. I was driving a little hard this past week, 9, 10, 10.5 hours out of 11. Then they slowed me down. An appointment got changed and moved forward a day so I just had to wait.... Then some more stuff got changed on the tablet. Then I got another that changed to a relay. About the relay, I wish they just would have been honest instead of changing it to a relay at the as soon as the trailer was live loaded. I didn't want the run anyway; it was going to be late and I didn't want it counting against me. It all really doesn't bother me very much because I know it's kinda similar at every big company

I feel fortunate that I have no wife or kids to worry about. I love driving long distances and I'm actually happy the regulations are there to keep drivers from getting too tired because I think that's the only thing I would be concerned with if I start driving.. I will take every resting chance I get. I do have my Class A CDL but haven't started driving yet as I'm still considering the trade-offs. If I do start driving it will probably be for 5 to 10 years as I am already close to retirement age and I'd like to have enough money saved to be comfortable the last 25 to 30 years of my life. Another concern is staying physically fit if I stay on the road as much as possible. I am a very solitary person and don't need much in companionship but I fear boredom so I'm sure I would try to keep creating VR experiences at the end of each driving day. Thanks for your insight and I'll keep considering becoming an OTR driver but I guess I won't really know if I like that lifestyle until I do it.

do you use AC when sleeping in the truck?

bro what did you use to do

Being on dedicated, you probably go back to a lot of the same places? I imagine that helps with productivity

Hydra Hyde - new sponsor? lol

hi there brother! do you recommend if i will go to my company paid cdl school or do your recommend scheider cdl program? thank you

Great man. This is superb

Looks beautiful

It takes a real man to admit defeat. Trucking isn't for everyone.

I used to work this type of job. I quitafter 3 month,

Hiii. how r u?

Gtrat to see you the care you give to your job.