Bale Bandit:
Pat Hasler:
You are referring to the harvest scheme, this is different, it’s to get guys to work for Schneider which is without doubt the very worse company in the country, lowest pay, no benefits, no holiday pay, no rights.No I’m not
What colleage and course are you talking about
pat,
your on the ground and your aware of the reality of such schemes, I only highlighted the topic so that other forum users could make them selves aware of what’s entailed.
isn’t that the point of these forums?
I stand to be shot down, but, what is relatively a low skill job (truck driving) will attract all sorts of individuals who “think” its an easy way to make a living, fact of the matter is it isn’t, to do the job correctly and maintain ones ethos and sanity can for some be a difficult experience, there are more relationships and family life that has gone to the wall through trucking than I care to mention.
having said that, some can make it work, some cannot, i’m not in the process of denigrating anyone but it can be a hard life (which I have left behind) and I have the utmost respect for all that conduct themselves in a responsible fashion whilst on the road.
end of the day we all have to earn our coin, does how we do it make any difference■■?
$40 grand in the USA is nothing unless you want to live in a truck all year without a break, no home, no personal property and come the new year when you have to do your taxes you will be hammered and loose about 30% of it.
I live in a relatively cheap area for housing and other services and at over $70K for me and $20k for the missus (she’s part time) we still struggle.
Pat Hasler:
More Schneider news ! … I read an article in one of the main trucking mags last year that said Schneiders had now abolished annual Vacation and holiday pay … What a fine company they are
Sound almost as good as hardly running 
taffytrucker:
Pat Hasler:
More Schneider news ! … I read an article in one of the main trucking mags last year that said Schneiders had now abolished annual Vacation and holiday pay … What a fine company they areSound almost as good as hardly running
Are they that bad.
Schnider werner cr england etc you would be as well off working for willi betz or warber.
talking about the pumpkin team seen a few this week funny enough always parked on a fuel pump for 30 mins or so. Good professional drivers puttinf themselves in peoples way
taffytrucker:
talking about the pumpkin team seen a few this week funny enough always parked on a fuel pump for 30 mins or so. Good professional drivers puttinf themselves in peoples way
That 30 minutes is the only rest they get 
westerngazette.co.uk/Crewker … story.html
Well I’ll be damned 
For what its worth ( my 2 cents ) all these American wannabe truck drivers should check out TruckersReport.com and they will then see the big picture and I,m not making comments either good or bad as I,m semi retired and know SFA about trucking over here.
ray
flyer747:
For what its worth ( my 2 cents ) all these American wannabe truck drivers should check out TruckersReport.com and they will then see the big picture and I,m not making comments either good or bad as I,m semi retired and know SFA about trucking over here.
ray
That website makes very interesting reading. I remember about a year ago becoming engrossed in reading one horror story after an other and feeling a complete sense of disappear that I’m in the same industry as some of those poor souls. Employment conditions for Canadian truck drivers are somewhat Dickensian compared to the UK in my opinion, but apart from a few very extreme examples in Canada, I think we have a much better lot than the yanks do.
I especially don’t like what you have in the US, the DAC (I think? Pat?!) where companies can blacklist drivers for any reason whatsoever, or even give no reason and prevent him from getting future jobs. Absolutely scandalous, not only are the drivers treat like crap when they are working, but when they have the audacity to quit, they get a bad DAC report out of spite.
robinhood_1984, yes a very interesting website, reading through the website I think the top job is Walmart Transportation Inc and I do stand to be corrected and there are some real horror stories.
ray
But don’t forget you blokes, we’re not here to make money, we’re here for the adventure,to see America 
though that poor sod who’s doing the night driving in that Schneider team won’t see much in the headlights 
Charles
only the deer…remy
Wednesday night I parked next to a Pumpkin truck, it was very cold and the guy was freezing, he was afraid to run his engine but said he had an electric blanket, I told him run the engine and tel the boss to stick his job.
Your right Pat. To SNI the driver is just another cost to be kept down as much as possible, they don’t even have any APU’s on the tractors. I wonder if he had enough juice in his batteries to crank after eight hours with the electric blanket on ? 
Charles
You are right Charles, I have lost count of the times I have seen their drivers waiting for a jump start
Bridgwater college is not a real college, it’s just a cover to get slave drivers, if it were a real college drivers would need to attend the college a few days each week, NEVER gonna happen, they want guys out on the road 24/7 teamed up with some fat smelly slob and getting paid peanuts.
I have never seen a Schneider truck being jump started. HTH
To be honest, most of the Schneider trucks I’ve seen parked overnight do idle the whole time, and the older crappy Freightliner columbia’s that look like they should have been exported to Ecuador or Burkina Faso 10 years ago make more noise from the rattling than from the motor.
From the few drivers I have spoken to at that firm, it does seem like a desperately awful job but the common denominator with these guys is that they all came to Schneider straight from the so called driving school so they dont actually know any better and as a result except the job as being the norm. The same could be said for many of the other big firms.
Schneider kept them old ones to avoid all the emission related problems the others have, go to any Freightshaker dealership and it will be full of Werner, Crete etc, you don’t see pumpkin trucks in them!
