Starting Pay For Schneider

Hello I will be getting my CDL license on 11/06/15 road test day and Schneider has already given me a conditional job offer I have applied for a region position home weekly and next Wednesday I have a big phone interview/call with the recruiter to talk about the positions and pay but I would like to know if anyone has inside knowledge of the starting pay the minimum I found on there website was $48,000 a year and then all the way to $65,000+ being that I have no experience I assume I would be starting At the lowest pay but I would like to know if the $48,000 is where I would most likely be starting out at? Thank you in advance for any and all help!!!

More on Schneider Starting out at 28 cpm + 3 cpm safety paid quarterly and then by the end of the first year you should be at 38cpm. The key word is SHOULD be!! Every driver has to prove them selves to what ever company they start with. I'm 58 years old and the minute I new what day I was finally retiring from law enforcement I started researching what company I wanted to work for. I took 2 years researching and it was worth taking that amount of time to gain the knowledge that I now have in starting my driving career.

Hello I will be getting my CDL license on 11/06/15 road test day and Schneider has already given me a conditional job offer I have applied for a region position home weekly and next Wednesday I have a big phone interview/call with the recruiter to talk about the positions and pay but I would like to know if anyone has inside knowledge of the starting pay the minimum I found on there website was $48,000 a year and then all the way to $65,000+ being that I have no experience I assume I would be starting At the lowest pay but I would like to know if the $48,000 is where I would most likely be starting out at? Thank you in advance for any and all help!!!

So doing some rough math estimating I find: $48,000/.37cents per mile = 129,730 miles per year. 129,730 miler per year / 50 weeks = 2594.6 miles per week. 2594.6 miles per week / 5 days a week = 518.92 miles per day, 5 days a week. So yes it may be possible to make $48,000 a year under ideal circumstances with making those miles every week 50 weeks a year. However it is not always ideal circumstances you will be subjected to, especially as a rookie. I think even less than $40,000 a year gross would be more realistic.

Phil

Hello I will be getting my CDL license on 11/06/15 road test day and Schneider has already given me a conditional job offer I have applied for a region position home weekly and next Wednesday I have a big phone interview/call with the recruiter to talk about the positions and pay but I would like to know if anyone has inside knowledge of the starting pay the minimum I found on there website was $48,000 a year and then all the way to $65,000+ being that I have no experience I assume I would be starting At the lowest pay but I would like to know if the $48,000 is where I would most likely be starting out at? Thank you in advance for any and all help!!!

So doing some rough math estimating I find: $48,000/.37cents per mile = 129,730 miles per year. 129,730 miler per year / 50 weeks = 2594.6 miles per week. 2594.6 miles per week / 5 days a week = 518.92 miles per day, 5 days a week. So yes it may be possible to make $48,000 a year under ideal circumstances with making those miles every week 50 weeks a year. However it is not always ideal circumstances you will be subjected to, especially as a rookie. I think even less than $40,000 a year gross would be more realistic.

Phil

My buddy drives for Schneider, he started January 2nd as a new inexperienced driver. He said he should be grossing between $35,000 and $38,000 this year

Errol your new avatar is disturbing to look at. In a word, creepy.

That's my Halloween mask. Just for this week.

Reminds me of the old death masks.

Well, since I haven't died yet, the correct term is (duhh) a life mask.

In the Air Force, I needed a custom oxygen mask to cover my big mouth. Rather than send me back to Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, they made a mold on my face, then sent the cast to WPAFB.

For one day I had possession of it, so I couldn't resist taking the photo. It simply came out spooky.

A few thoughts on your evaluation of Schneider:

The drivers had nothing good to say about the company and nothing good about the trucks they were given to drive.

Schneider has well over 10,000 drivers. How many did you actually speak with? And none of them had anything good to say about the company and yet they all choose to work there?

They have very nice equipment. The average age of their trucks is under 3 years old.

The newbie sign on bonus is $1000 paid out over a year's time so let's break down down to about $81 dollars a month so an extra $25 bucks per week. WHOOPIE!!!!

How much of a bonus do you think a new driver should get coming out of school, and do you really think you should judge a company based upon the size of their sign on bonus?

And if $1,000 paid out at $25 bucks a week is peanuts, I can give you my information and you can start sending me that many peanuts each week.

They also have tuition reimbursement of up to $6,000.

You are not allowed much idle time and their trucks do not have APU's in them to give you better comfort and to run a regular mini refrigerator and regular appliances to fix your meals in and a microwave. All of those comforts really matter to a driver is is going to be out at 2 weeks or more at a time

Over 99% of the trucks on the highway today do not have an APU. I drove for 15 years and never had an APU. You can idle when you need to in order to be comfortable and run your electronics just fine.

Schneider is a great company but so are a lot of others. The biggest factors you should consider when choosing a job are:

1) Home time

2) The types of freight you'd like to haul

3) Pay & Benefits

4) Other opportunities the company may have in various divisions

Once you determine which companies offer the home time and the type of freight you'd like to haul your choices will be narrowed down considerably. At that point you can use other factors to determine which one suits you the best.

Don't worry too much about sign on bonuses or APU's.

HOS:

Hours Of Service

HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.

OOS:

When a violation by either a driver or company is confirmed, an out-of-service order removes either the driver or the vehicle from the roadway until the violation is corrected.

APU:

Auxiliary Power Unit

On tractor trailers, and APU is a small diesel engine that powers a heat and air conditioning unit while charging the truck's main batteries at the same time. This allows the driver to remain comfortable in the cab and have access to electric power without running the main truck engine.

Having an APU helps save money in fuel costs and saves wear and tear on the main engine, though they tend to be expensive to install and maintain. Therefore only a very small percentage of the trucks on the road today come equipped with an APU.

APU's:

Auxiliary Power Unit

On tractor trailers, and APU is a small diesel engine that powers a heat and air conditioning unit while charging the truck's main batteries at the same time. This allows the driver to remain comfortable in the cab and have access to electric power without running the main truck engine.

Having an APU helps save money in fuel costs and saves wear and tear on the main engine, though they tend to be expensive to install and maintain. Therefore only a very small percentage of the trucks on the road today come equipped with an APU.

Thank you for all of your valuable input in this I will write an update after phone call Wednesday 10am Eastern time. Once again thank you all and I am sure I will have more questions as I go along

Herbie if your still listening, just ask the recruiter what the pay is. If you're gonna be home weekly/regional driver, you'll probably be getting paid additional $ per stop.

You can read my Notes for Newbies.

I've made bonus every quarter since hired in January. Anybody who thinks $600+ per quarter is peanuts is welcome to send me $2,400/year. Oh yeah, they are putting me in a new 2016 next week too. Hmm...imagine that; I'm a rookie driver AND getting a new truck.

Many companies are good. I love driving for Schneider.

A few thoughts on your evaluation of Schneider:

The drivers had nothing good to say about the company and nothing good about the trucks they were given to drive.

Schneider has well over 10,000 drivers. How many did you actually speak with? And none of them had anything good to say about the company and yet they all choose to work there?

They have very nice equipment. The average age of their trucks is under 3 years old.

The newbie sign on bonus is $1000 paid out over a year's time so let's break down down to about $81 dollars a month so an extra $25 bucks per week. WHOOPIE!!!!

How much of a bonus do you think a new driver should get coming out of school, and do you really think you should judge a company based upon the size of their sign on bonus?

And if $1,000 paid out at $25 bucks a week is peanuts, I can give you my information and you can start sending me that many peanuts each week.

They also have tuition reimbursement of up to $6,000.

You are not allowed much idle time and their trucks do not have APU's in them to give you better comfort and to run a regular mini refrigerator and regular appliances to fix your meals in and a microwave. All of those comforts really matter to a driver is is going to be out at 2 weeks or more at a time

Over 99% of the trucks on the highway today do not have an APU. I drove for 15 years and never had an APU. You can idle when you need to in order to be comfortable and run your electronics just fine.

Schneider is a great company but so are a lot of others. The biggest factors you should consider when choosing a job are:

1) Home time

2) The types of freight you'd like to haul

3) Pay & Benefits

4) Other opportunities the company may have in various divisions

Once you determine which companies offer the home time and the type of freight you'd like to haul your choices will be narrowed down considerably. At that point you can use other factors to determine which one suits you the best.

Don't worry too much about sign on bonuses or APU's.

Thank you sir I appreciate you taking the time to get in on my question I am sure your very busy with people wanting you to reply to them lol but for real I did appreciate it

HOS:

Hours Of Service

HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.

OOS:

When a violation by either a driver or company is confirmed, an out-of-service order removes either the driver or the vehicle from the roadway until the violation is corrected.

APU:

Auxiliary Power Unit

On tractor trailers, and APU is a small diesel engine that powers a heat and air conditioning unit while charging the truck's main batteries at the same time. This allows the driver to remain comfortable in the cab and have access to electric power without running the main truck engine.

Having an APU helps save money in fuel costs and saves wear and tear on the main engine, though they tend to be expensive to install and maintain. Therefore only a very small percentage of the trucks on the road today come equipped with an APU.

APU's:

Auxiliary Power Unit

On tractor trailers, and APU is a small diesel engine that powers a heat and air conditioning unit while charging the truck's main batteries at the same time. This allows the driver to remain comfortable in the cab and have access to electric power without running the main truck engine.

Having an APU helps save money in fuel costs and saves wear and tear on the main engine, though they tend to be expensive to install and maintain. Therefore only a very small percentage of the trucks on the road today come equipped with an APU.

Could be worse...you could be stuck in a contract with celadon making .18 a mile...Schneider sounding real good to me on this end(all of celadon trainees have to take the CDL test at Schneider and they even tho I was with celadon they actually tried to recruit me...I might have to call that number...)

Herbie if your still listening, just ask the recruiter what the pay is. If you're gonna be home weekly/regional driver, you'll probably be getting paid additional $ per stop.

You can read my Notes for Newbies.

I've made bonus every quarter since hired in January. Anybody who thinks $600+ per quarter is peanuts is welcome to send me $2,400/year. Oh yeah, they are putting me in a new 2016 next week too. Hmm...imagine that; I'm a rookie driver AND getting a new truck.

Many companies are good. I love driving for Schneider.

I will do that. Thank you sir.