Schneider going from orange to white?

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS EX-PAT BRITISH TRUCKERS (INTERACTIVE)
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Just a quick question to ask what the deal is with these white units schneider have, as from what I see they have quite a lot of them just wondered if they’re ditching the bugs bunny carrot colour and going down the road of painting the trucks white although imo I think they look tidier in the white than the orange! Or is it something special they’ve done to a few select motors? Just out of curiosity of course :slight_smile:

Orange outfit:

White outfit:

Cheers

Jonny :sunglasses:

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They’re doing it because it’s cheaper and better for resale :wink:

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Didn’t think it would make a difference to a company that size or im guessing its a sign of the Times and having to look at otherways to bring more money in. But imo I do prefer the white trucks to the orange ones :slight_smile:

Cheers

Jonny :sunglasses:

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Schneiders are are extremely, lets say, “frugal” and always have been. Years ago the drivers were not allowed to idle the trucks in winter
They were given electric blankets instead :laughing: :laughing:

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They don’t like spending money on trailers that’s for sure, some of them are a right mess :unamused:

Although they are not as bad as Swift or Werner for damage, I don’t ever remember seeing a Werner motor that didn’t have a dent in it somewhere, maybe they buy them like that :laughing:

Money wise, Schneider is supposed to be a pretty decent firm, the drivers don’t run around for peanuts like the other big carriers and their lease program is set up for the lease operator to actually make some money, rather than the usual, get them to pay for the truck then starve them into bankruptcy deal on offer elsewhere :open_mouth:

Rumour has it that they have bought 6,000 glider kits from Freightliner and are doing up their old pre emission engines or de EGR’ing the later ones to put in them, so the secondhand market won’t have so many orange trucks to sell :sunglasses:

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Thanks for that :slight_smile: just wondered as such. Sound a not so bad company to work for compared to some other of the big firms :slight_smile: certainly think the white with the black abd orange signs look better :slight_smile:.

Cheers

Jonny :sunglasses:

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Just look at the 2 pictures to see which is the better colour, that orange makes the newest trucks look like old ones.
Once got told a story by a driver, don’t know if it’s true but amusing anyhow.
He was running down the I 15 with his mate and they came to some roadworks and his mate was in front and knocked a load of cones over, so he shouts on the CB 'What you doing, falling asleep ?" His replies “No, killing these baby Schneiders before they grow into trucks.”

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Even worse are the even cheaper looking Schneiders I’ve started seeing this week like in the bottom photo, the new Cascadia evolution with the crappy looking flat side skirts, but where the whole thing is black/grey unpainted plastic rather than colour coded with the rest of the truck. A lot of companies have grey bumpers which in my mind look cheap and nasty but where the side skirts are unpainted too, especially ones that are so big, it looks ridiculous.

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Schneider are a terrible company to work for :exclamation: I know several of their drivers, they are paid crap money and treadted liks animals. They have even stopped the measly one weeks paid holiday and told drivers to take at least one week off per year unpaid :open_mouth:
It has always had some white truck for as long as I can remember.
I have been waiting for ages for reloads when I drove dry vans and had those guys waiting with me and not getting a penny for any of the time, they can be sent for a service appointment and be stuck in a workshop all day without any pay.
I would never work for them even though I get a trash mail circular from them every few months that some wicked git signed me up for.

For the life of me I can’t see how actually bragging about taking away holiday pay to save funds would encourage drivers to work there :question:

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Pat Hasler:
I have been waiting for ages for reloads when I drove dry vans and had those guys waiting with me and not getting a penny for any of the time, they can be sent for a service appointment and be stuck in a workshop all day without any pay.

Sounds familiar! When I worked for a well known NB company with bright yellow/white trucks and trailers we didnt wait for loads much but none of us would ever dare request a service for our truck and we’d dread anything going wrong with it as it wasn’t unknown to be sat in the shop 1 to 3 days totally unpaid! My truck was once off the road for 12 days for a service and a new water pump seal. I got the bus home which was about 4 hours away from where their workshop is and had to get a lift back down again 12 days later. No pay for being off work, no offer of a replacement truck and despite their assurances, no reimbursment for the bus fare home. It seems that in North America, the bigger the company, the more they go on about safety and image and the more people they employ in the office for that type of thing, the worse they are to work for. I’m now on at a small company of about 25 trucks, with 4 office staff and its a world of difference. I spoken to scores of drivers who work at the big well known fleets in both the US and Canada and its nearly always the same story.

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I can’t complain about my company for that, tey always pay for every hour I am sitting at the workshops and a few years ago when I broke down in Burlington VT and was told my truck would be a week off the road, they actually paid my wife $87.00 to drive the 75 miles each way to get me home, next day they put me in a newer truck which I asked to keep and never saw the other one again.
You know of my experiences getting paid waiting time in Montreal and the following week I waited 16 hours at Wawa dairy in PA and even though 10 hours were taken off duty I got the whole 16 hours. Thats not a bad place to spend 10 hours off duty, great mall there and a greta pub too.

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jonnytruckfest:

Check out the wheel-nut covers on the one on the left !!

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Geoffo:

jonnytruckfest:

Check out the wheel-nut covers on the one on the left !!

Stupidity :laughing:
I see them on lots of trucks but the are driven by people who can actually drive withouth breaking them, the chances of that company employing anyone of that standard are rare :laughing:

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Careful now Pat, the Manitoba Michelin Man will be here to take issue with that :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Pat Hasler:
I can’t complain about my company for that, tey always pay for every hour I am sitting at the workshops and a few years ago when I broke down in Burlington VT and was told my truck would be a week off the road, they actually paid my wife $87.00 to drive the 75 miles each way to get me home, next day they put me in a newer truck which I asked to keep and never saw the other one again.
You know of my experiences getting paid waiting time in Montreal and the following week I waited 16 hours at Wawa dairy in PA and even though 10 hours were taken off duty I got the whole 16 hours. Thats not a bad place to spend 10 hours off duty, great mall there and a greta pub too.

I work for a multi-national , but today the plant where I’m based had a planned power outage ,I couldn’t reload so got sent home until the morning and get 14 hours pay whilst I build a curry for supper :smiley: .

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flat to the mat:

Pat Hasler:
I can’t complain about my company for that, tey always pay for every hour I am sitting at the workshops and a few years ago when I broke down in Burlington VT and was told my truck would be a week off the road, they actually paid my wife $87.00 to drive the 75 miles each way to get me home, next day they put me in a newer truck which I asked to keep and never saw the other one again.
You know of my experiences getting paid waiting time in Montreal and the following week I waited 16 hours at Wawa dairy in PA and even though 10 hours were taken off duty I got the whole 16 hours. Thats not a bad place to spend 10 hours off duty, great mall there and a greta pub too.

I work for a multi-national , but today the plant where I’m based had a planned power outage ,I couldn’t reload so got sent home until the morning and get 14 hours pay whilst I build a curry for supper :smiley: .

I get paid mileage, plus bits and bobs, any city work is paid by the hour, we get waiting time and layover, extra money for BC and Northern Ontario because the miles take longer to do, we also get extra for anything running through the night. Now all that is good, but the main thing with a paid by the mile job is being kept moving and that’s something they’re very good at, it turns what could be a bad job into a very good job, compared to most anyway :sunglasses:

I consider myself quite lucky, there are far too many jobs that are run badly, so the drivers are ripping up log books and working 20hrs a day, chasing an unrealistic mileage target, hanging around waiting for loads unpaid, idiots like this are holding us all back and keeping rates and wages low, no point trying to educate them, the companies have brainwashed them into thinking they’re getting a good deal :unamused: