Schneider New Employer
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Sounds great Silk. Keep us updated as you go. In the meantime, make sure you're well prepared before you even leave for training. Here's some important reading materials and study materials for you. Hit em hard:
- Truck Driver's Career Guide
- Brett's Book: The Raw Truth About Trucking (free online version)
- High Road CDL Training Program
- CDL Practice Tests
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Silk...I had to laugh. You were out if the game for eight years and had to get your license back...now that you had it back...you had two moving violations in the last year?
I’m protecting my license as much as possible. It’s my money maker. Good luck moving forward with Schneider.
@Tim F. I was working for this company mainly just agriculture work just watering the fields I had my permit not my license and they let me work for them for about 2 years just driving untill I got pulled over and they saw that my permit was expired so got a non license ticket and had plenty of other tickets in my class c so my license got revoked and just really didn't care and now that I'm older and realized how fortune I was I'm trying to protect it because it will be my money maker so learned my lesson and this time I actually got my license and I saw how hard it was got all endorsements and twic just in case to be a better canadit and how allot of people put time and effort so now I leave all that in the past and trying it again as a new driver and will see how it goes never driven a 53 but not worried just need to get my feet wet for a bit and i did take a course for about 250+ hours so I should be good
TWIC:
Transportation Worker Identification Credential
Truck drivers who regularly pick up from or deliver to the shipping ports will often be required to carry a TWIC card.
Your TWIC is a tamper-resistant biometric card which acts as both your identification in secure areas, as well as an indicator of you having passed the necessary security clearance. TWIC cards are valid for five years. The issuance of TWIC cards is overseen by the Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security.
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Hey guys I've been out of the game for a while about 8 years had to get my license all over again had too many tickets back then being immature and now that I got it I want to do OTR. I applied at a couple places and all companies are about the same so I narrowed it down to the closest one to my home which is about an hour away and towards the end I went with Schneider only because other companies didn't want to pick me up because of my driving record. I have 2 moving violations within the last year and the other companies wouldn't pick me up because of that so Schneider said they would and got set up and everything. They are flying me to Montana the training is for 10 days there was another one in Arizona and that one was for about 2-3 weeks he said so will see how this goes all keep you guys posted any questions also ask me here or on IG cris101v thanks
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.