Yet another huge amount | Sunday Rant | Trucking Answers

[@jeffhudson2346]

You mean the Smith system which Schneider invented didn't work?

[@kenp.9762]

Because a lot of these new drivers think that it's just like driving a car.

[@mrpumpken]

Exactly. It's as if they're driving a Honda civic. Zipping in and out of traffic

[@kenp.9762]

@@mrpumpken ... Ya don't have to tell me... I live it every day..... "Foreign" drivers, with their foot up on the dash, phone in their hand.. wouldn't be able to react, if a deer ran in front of them .. trust me, I know. 🙄

[@davejohnson5479]

Truth be told. I started driving commercial in 1992. I'm still doing it and I'm giving it 5 more years and I'm out. I can't take it anymore. Safety has become secondary and so many other reasons. You're absolutely right Mark.

[@spiceymeatball7094]

You aint going nowhere! In 5 years you will be saying Im giving it 5 more years. Lol!

[@nospam3001]

If the freight volume is so bad why do they even need new drivers? It's all about keeping the pay rates down.

[@ron-o4d]

The freight volume is fine, there's too many trucks over capacity because everybody jumped in during covid

[@nospam3001]

@@ron-o4d The question remains though. Why the need for new inexperienced drivers if there are too many truck for the available freight?

[@ron-o4d]

Because everybody that hires new drivers have dropped their pay rates and people are figuring out it's not worth it to be away from home working all the hours for that kind of money, when the market is bad like it is now the only people that are happy as a new company driver are people that actually like driving and it doesn't bother them to work long hours for Low pay, once you get two to three years of experience better things open up, but most people don't last that long especially now, and all the mega carriers that hire new drivers have contracted freight, they always have work, but they will pay as little as they have to for a driver, and right now there's a whole bunch of people that are willing to work for peanuts and they're always will be

[@thomaskirkpatrick4031]

13 years ago I got 22 days of school training. 21 days with a trainer. I'm still out here, still learning.

[@thomaskirkpatrick4031]

Look at the turnover rate at some of these mega carriers? Some of these companies have 100% turnover. Every single person they train and hire quits or get fired?

[@bikerevolutiontv]

17 year driver here. This is what I think. These big company's are desperate on 2 levels. One, not wanting to pay in accordance to current inflation. Two, be in bed with the training schools so anyone can get passed and as fast as possible.

[@roguecapitalist9875]

An important point that needs to be addressed. Thanks to this decision all drivers regardless whether they are company or owner operators share financial liability for accidents where prior to this company drivers were not liable financially. I’m thinking of getting a cdl but feel I need about 1.2 million in liability coverage to protect my assets if I should get in a serious accident. Which I cannot afford. So I’m considering not getting the cdl. This will kill the trucking industry as a whole when company drivers need to carry supplemental liability coverage.

[@chrisksanznak9632]

Airline Pilots $$$$$ Ship Captains $$$$$ CDL Drivers ……

[@CashisKingtrucking]

10-4 Meth 👍🏼

[@Goal-2-Go]

I guess if you're going to have 27 calls throughout the day you better do some meth and stay up..

[@Goal-2-Go]

I heard that they named the driver accident prediction software Agatha, for the precog in minority report.. creepy or what?

[@youngsiles17]

“Here in these trades an actual trade” yeah I left trucking and don’t think I’d come back. Money is better elsewhere and you don’t have to work 70 hours like a slave. Leave it for these rag heads coming and taking everyone once blue collar job that’s now just a truck driver nothing flashy.

[@realoneTorres]

You got any recommended companies for a driver straight out of school ? It’s getting to the point where nobody will take me due to experience and everybody who will I’m hearing terrible things about

[@johnmerlo5005]

The shareholders care.

[@sappy4happy448]

If ur not smart enough to do due diligence on a company like Schneider before investing your money then you deserve whatever happens to your money.

[@TeeroyHammermill]

@@sappy4happy448 : Well Said.

[@johnmerlo5005]

​@sappy4happy448 I see you know nothing about stocks and dividends .

[@chrisbradford4014]

That’s why I stopped driving

[@Solitaryman70]

If you really want to fix the problems the way Mark says; Do away with Companies that are SELF INSURED, All Companies must have FMCSA approved and accepted credited INSURANCE , NO SELF INSURANCE, NO EXCEPTIONS. Now all trucking companies have no choice but to hire Experienced Professional Drivers, AND KEEP THEM HAPPY….😇 , Wow, just imagine the negotiations in Orientation now 😂, MAN that would drive the SHIPPERS AND RECEIVERS and BROKERS nutts!!!

[@mike-sk2li]

Hair focile drug tests are not FMCSA approved! Company policy. The company can fire you for it but can't report it to the clearing house and are prohibited from disclosing it to a future employer.

[@TheRichlauer]

Can you tell me anything about Indian River about that company

[@ron-o4d]

Yeah, they start under .60 a mile😂

[@Solitaryman70]

I heard from the past they were a good company if you are an experienced tanker driver and don’t ever need to go home. My last contact with them was 2010… I’d use extreme caution dealing with tanker companies if you don’t have any experience. Most of those trainers will give you a hard time because they think you’re going to replace them for lower pay. FYI , most drivers just Quit, because of the faulty training.

[@jamesbass9797]

How in the sam hell did he even get a job with Schneider to begin with? How did he pass his drug test from day one? Schneider obviously went the cheap route in their hiring process with that guy. Had they done a hair test in the beginning they would have known he had a past history of using drugs. Mark, I totally agree with your assessment. The fine should be much higher. They deserve it.

[@anselpeneloperainblossom-s3489]

Hair tests can be defeated.

[@jamesbass9797]

@@anselpeneloperainblossom-s3489 -- Oh, do explain how that's done please.

[@anselpeneloperainblossom-s3489]

@@jamesbass9797 I trust you had a chance to read the explanation? I’m not leaving it up for anyone to put to use. If you missed it, I’ll send it to Mark and you can see if he will share.

[@jamesbass9797]

@@anselpeneloperainblossom-s3489 -- No, I didn't see it.

[@morthomer5804]

Who has Marks lock of hair from when he played guitar in the rock band?

[@michaelswift9408]

Five years, minimum.absolutly.

[@questtech7148]

If they actually make it challenging and tedious for people to become truck drivers, they'd have to pay truckers more money= higher shipping rates that will directly affect the largest businesses in the country "the true owners of the country" so its doubtful that will happen.

[@timothyhorton6352]

Here in Michigan the kids have to go through a graduated license, multiple classes, and pay like $500 for it. Yet, you can become a truck driver in just a couple weeks for free if you play the system right. Has anyone looked at the safer scores of these big companies? They have been involved in dozens of fatalities and are still considered acceptable. Being a single truck company, if I was involved in a fatality I would be shutdown almost immediately. Thank God for lobbyists. Just saying

[@joeshmoe629]

Who gets 27 phone calls? A drug dealer ?!?

[@thomaskirkpatrick4031]

I don't get 27 phone in a week. Honestly I might get that many in a month from my wife?

[@treyfeeley2519]

Werner went through the same thing! They LOST all their appeals and now MUST pay the 81 million dollar judgement! Guess what ? Werner is still doing the same things that caused the problem and, that is using people with 6 months experience train new drivers!!!!!

[@diesellady7816]

Even if trucking companies let new people ride along for about 3 months to just observe that would be good too. Before they even allow anyone behind the wheel. They turn them out like sheep. Lol. It's crazy.

[@youngsiles17]

Screw truck driving I have my class A but ima be using it for nothing while I’m an electrician and I’m loving the actual trade im in! Way better and professional

[@percyw3514]

The fine was pocket change for pumpkinhead. Suspend authority to run 60 days and give them time to figure out how to run a truck safely down our highway. The fines are a write off and probably a tax write off,hit 'em where it hurts.

[@anselpeneloperainblossom-s3489]

Wait! He hit and ran a fatality?!? Or caused the accident and fled. Basically the same thing in the end

[@jameseverhartjr5106]

I agree with these these dingdong, electronic trucks, newbies out here that come out here and are distracted and they don’t have to earn their driving wings anymore. They don’t have to go through them Emmanuel anymore. You don’t have to do that anymore. He just act like damn jackass.

[@joanharper954]

When are you going to start you live shows again?

[@roguecapitalist9875]

Hair follicle tests can’t tell when you used. Only that at some point in your life you used it. Maybe it was today. Maybe it was twenty years.

[@curiousgeorge5992]

Rant,, how bout some references referrals from to litigation assistance against criminal authorities and hostile business practices x employer, thnx,,,

[@fastjoecorrigan7426]

You need me to tell me it's wrong to do meth and drive?

[@rogerpenske2411]

It’s really too bad, because Schneider had a reputation for being one of the best places to train as a truck driver

[@brianfuller9565]

I want my money back.