Comments By Jay68442

Got my truck upgraded today. :) When I pretriped the first truck yesterday the windows would not roll down so they routed me to Carlisle and gave me a different truck. Much, much better. The first trucked smelled so bad from the smoker that had it before me. I'm not a smoker. The new truck is a 2013 Cascadia, freshly cleaned and looking good. This one has the active cruse control that I like. Tomorrow I'm headed from Carlisle to wellston OH so I'll find out if she runs as good as she looks. As for my first day solo, all went well. I struggled a little with some backing but overall uneventful.

Picked up my "permanent" truck today and I'm hoping it's not to permanent. I think it may be their first truck. Lol well it's not that old, it's a 2013 frightliner columbia. I guess us new guys get the bottom of the barrel. At least it was clean on the inside. Picking up my first load as a solo driver tomorrow at 0700. Hopefully all goes well and my truck is up to the task.

Finished up all of my training and testing on Wednesday 11/23, passed everything! Now the real journey begins. I was assigned a truck and start on Monday 11/28. After almost 3 weeks of training I'm really enjoying my home time but to be honest I'm excited for Monday. I'm also a little nervous, I won't have a trainer to help me out. Although the training at Schneider was good I feel like I still have a ton to learn. To all of you experienced truckers, help the noobs out if you see us struggling. :)

Spent the past 15 years as a programmer and project manager for a large online insurance company. I also own a fitness studio and I'm a persona trainer.

My over the road training went well. Only spent 4 days OTR with my TE because they routed him back early to drop me off. I drove about 1400 miles in 4 days. I'm NE regional. I was told I would adverage 2000-2200 miles a week. I guess we will see when I'm actually out on the road. I'll keep you posted.

How'd your training week go? Are you going with ne regional? I'm wondering how many miles/wk they promised. That's what I originally signed up for, and they told me 2000-2250. I ended up in "lightweigh solutions" which has been great, and that's about what I average. I'll be interested to hear how you do in ne regional.

Thank you Old School! Well I made it through day 1. I made few mistakes but overall it was a good day. It's a lot different driving with a full load, not used to that but I think I adapted pretty well. I drove about 300 miles from PA to Boston mass. Now it's time for some sleep.

Leaving in a few to meet up with my OTR trainer. Will be out until Saturday. When I return its back to Carlisle for the final week. I'll try to post an update while out on the road. I'm sure it's going to be an experience.

Today was day 4 of orientation and just about half the class was let go. We started with 21 and are now down to 12. I'm happy to say that I passed my road test and skills with ease. I thank my CDL school for that. I have learned that not all cdl schools are held to the same standards as all of thosr sent home can attest. I learned a lot over the past 4 days. Anyone considering Schneider the following is for you. Schneider's training in the first few days is more of an assessment of where you are at and teaching you their way of doing things. They do teach and train you but if you don't have the basics down this may not be the best place for you to start out. If you don't have a halfway decent set of skills coming in then you are probably not going to make it. I have one more day in Carlisle before I go OTR with my next trainer. I'll be out a week and then have to return to Carlisle for more training and testing.

Second day of orientation completed. The first day was very long and boring. Lots of paperwork, pre work physical and screening followed by more paperwork. Today was better. Did some driving and backing in the morning and back to the classroom for the afternoon. It felt really good to get back behind the wheel after a few weeks off after finishing cdl school. I wasn't nearly as rusty as I thought I would be. The instructors at Schneider are really great and dedicated people. All is good so far, no complaints.

Leaving tomorrow 11/7 for Carlisle PA and orientation starts 11/8. I'm excited for the learning and experience but a little down about leaving the family for 3 weeks. This is the path I chose so I'm just going to get it done. I will continue to update this thread as I go through orientation for those that are interested in Schneider.