Schneider National discrimination and bad practics Ripoff Green Bay Wisconsin

Eugene,

I hope you can take this in the constructive manner in which it is meant. The way you communicate in writing tells alot about yourself.
I am a truck driver also with over 1.5 million logged SAFE commercial miles. I can tell you that ANYTIME you run over a sign, it is your fault. You did not have your vehicle under control. You could have taken the next exit and turned off safely and come back to the point you missed. That sign could have been a person.

After what I have read, it sounds to me that an OTR trucking job is not for you. Typical hometime is 1 day for each week out, and most companies keep you out for 3-5 weeks at a time, sometimes more. And, most companies do not give you more than 3 consecutive days off without making you turn in the truck.

You screwed yourself by quitting. They paid to train you, and they did. Your contract says you will have to pay them back if you quit.

So your Mom said that most drivers are fat and the job is easy, and that's why you wanted to be a truck driver? Is your Mom a truck driver? It sounds to me that your Mom is misinformed, and I think you as a man should make your own decisions and be responsible for your own actions.

dont call me names i am not an idiot and i am a good driver schneider is crazy to try and charge me for the truck after i was kind enough to go drive for them all of you are just mean people and are jealous of me. i am never going to pay schneider and i will get good hometime the next job i take. keep your rude comments to yourself and dont talk about my mom

Eugene,

Being a truck driver means you are away from home for 2 to 3 weeks at a time, you get paid every friday from Schneider. If I read your complaint right you did attend Schneider Training you owe them the money for the training. I had two accidents when I was driving for them and not once did it come up that I had to pay for the damage. So I find it very hard to believe that they want you to pay for a scratch in there truck

As far as having to turn around that is normal thing to do when you miss your exit. Waiting an hour to be unloaded that is nothing try waiting 7 hours before they will even let you bump the dock then have a 2 hour unload time. Then you call an complain that your foot hurts after driving for a long time. Did you forget how to use the cruise control? Not quite sure how long you had been out but it seems that you were only out to make 1 pick up and delivery then you wanted hometime. Tell me you are joking.

Until you are out a month going from coast to coast an request hometime and don't get home for another 3 days quit your whining.

First of all, what kind of a man are you? I should become a trucker because my mom told me that it was a good idea. How stupid is that. Also, incase you were unaware, any truck that has a sleeper berth, (that little house on back with a bed in it) will stay out typically 2-3 weeks straight. I can drive 5 days straight without even blinking.

Now with that said down to business. I am a former driver for Schneider National. I was fortunate enough to find a pretty little lady to drive team with me, that made the 2-3 weeks out more "enjoyable".

When it comes to the directions that they send you over the qualcom, those were only suggested routing solutions. You, as the driver are in charge of finding your own way. You should have been more aware and used some common sense and not have put your faith blindly into their directions, they don't know everything and things change.

When it comes to the U-turn that YOU made, YOU should have been more aware of your vehicle and known that you were going to hit a stop sign.
I was deadheading, (driving with an empty trailer to real drivers) in Atlanta, GA on I-285 in rush hour in the rain. I locked the breaks when a moving van merged infront of me and came to an abrupt stop. I rear-ended him. You can say that it was his fault for merging too close to me, but in the end I took my licks and accepted it.

So my advice to you, if you decide to continue trucking(and I hope you don't) is that you MAN-UP and accept the fact that this is not a 9-5 job. It demands alot out of you and it requires a moderate degree of common sense. You need to be flexible and willing to take alot of s**t.

schneider keeps sending mail and calling my mom at her house for me to pay for their truck and school but i dont live there they cant keep calling my mom like this and herassing her she knows i did nothing that was wrong. i will not pay them there money because i owe them no money they owe me for no hometime. I dont live with my mom and they never find out where i live! they need to leave my mom alone!!! schneider bad practices beware