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#SCHNIEDER TRUCKING DRIVERS#
I think most experienced drivers would agree-that 1 week with a trainer is usually not enough. Most other starter companies keep you with a trainer for about 4 weeks, or thereabouts. This is either an advantage-or a disadvantage, depending on what you're looking for. Note that your time on the road with a trainer at Schneider will be VERY brief-about a week, or so. Although Schnieder's hometime policy might not be much better (I don't know what their hometime policy is) so maybe that won't matter. I know at Estes I asked about it and they said you could stay out for months at a time but when you came home you were still only getting 2 days off. If you want to drive nationally you could do OTR with LTL companies as well, but the thing is to the best of my knowledge you're not going to get more than 2 days off after spending 3 - 6 weeks out on the road, like you will with traditional OTR companies. I think Schnieders newer trucks have APU's but if I remember right, when they were recruiting at my CDL school several years ago not all the trucks had APU's on them. A lot of warehouses don't even let drivers inside since 2020, which isn't a big deal in the spring and the fall but in the winter and in the summertime you want that APU when the warehouses have no idling policies and won't let you inside (and also Schnieder probably has a no idling policy as well though I'm not sure on that).
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If you go the OTR route I would suggest thinking about what comforts you want in a truck.
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But I don't know a lot about Schneider either so maybe the dispatchers will run you out West if you let them know that you'll stay out for a month or so at a time. With Schneider they might keep you around the Northeast anyways depending on how often you want hometime. But you could always jump ship when you get your 1 year experience and go to basically any of the LTL companies and make more money if R&L isn't paying you too good. If R&L is vague on their pay policy I don't know enough about them to know what the money is like there. That said, LTL linehaul is where the money is at for companies like Estes and Old Dominion. It was not uncommon to wait 1-2 hours at each terminal for the trailer to be finished loading. Click to expand.I'm sure it varies from company to company and terminal to terminal, but I found (at least at Estes) that the linehaul guys were waiting just as long at the terminals for their trailers to be loaded as OTR guys.