Going To Schneider 10-13-15

Keep up the hard work. Good to hear it's almost done for you.

Thanks! How is your new truck?! how do you like it here? I passed the trip planning oh my SQT's, have all my cbt's done. Tomorrow, I should be taking my final road test!

Keep up the hard work. Good to hear it's almost done for you.

Thanks! How is your new truck?! how do you like it here? I passed the trip planning oh my SQT's, have all my cbt's done. Tomorrow, I should be taking my final road test!

Please keep us posted. Was actually considering Schneider and Carlisle is where I would go as well. Still tossed between them and Maverick and possibly LTL.

I finished up my training at Schneider! Passed my final SQT's and am now solo, and assigned a truck...I slip seat. They changed my start time to 4am Monday through Friday. I just found they have customers in Brooklyn. Not looking forward to that.

The soft skills portion of the SQT was cake, just have to plan a complete trip from point a to b, and give your ETA, and NAT. You get 2 hours, took me 25 minutes. I got 5 points off because a I fudged up my hours left on the 70. It was so stupid I couldn't believe I did that. The second part was done in the truck using the navigo in the Qualcomm. Cake. The last part was inside the classroom finishing the workflow. They added in some bonus points. I got them all and ended with 107%. I was annoyed because if I did the hours left right, which I know, I would have gotten the perfect score of 112%.

Then was road test time. I passed pretrip, post trip and coupling the day before. Road test was about 13 miles, freeway, local highway, country roads and some tighter city like roads. Had me drive through a busy trucks stop and pull through the fuel station and back sround and exit. I think I had the only tester that made you do that. I was hot and nervous, he had the heat on and the windows up, and then he said you need to skip shift this truck, she likes it! I said I never did it, nor really know what it is. We started rolling and said shift from second to fourth...OKAY...well that's all that is to it, build the Rpms a little higher and skip a gear. The dd15 engine shifts at very low rpm then what I have been using for the last three weeks. Plus my week with a trainer was on a day cab , not a sleeper. Anyway, I adapted to the condo and passed. Backing was easier on a condo then a day cab.

I was told I needed to be in Alburtis, PA at 1am for auto training. That was a day I went 40 hour without sleeping. Ahhh. Anyway I passed that road test too, and it was very different driving at night on farm roads. I had to make a couple button hook turns, and I took all the space I could as I could not see the tandems or the curb. Thank the Lord, I hit nothing.

I start at my new pay rate tomorrow! So excited! Schneider has been great so far! If anyone has questions hit me up, I'll be happy to help!