Schneider Orientation In Dallas Texas

I start orientation on Tuesday. How difficult is the backing during the first week? What kind of backs do you do? I'm pretty confident with my ability to do it. Do you spend 3 weeks gone from home or do they give you the option to drive home before you meet with a trainer? I would just like some info on their orientation. I just graduated school and got my cdl

Congrats, Tyler. Would love to hear how things go as I'm looking at them too.

I start orientation on Tuesday. How difficult is the backing during the first week? What kind of backs do you do? I'm pretty confident with my ability to do it. Do you spend 3 weeks gone from home or do they give you the option to drive home before you meet with a trainer? I would just like some info on their orientation. I just graduated school and got my cdl

CONGRATS! Assuming you're dry van; week one lots of driving & backing. Not to test you but many drivers get their license using a day cab. Schneider gets you driving a sleeper truck.

End of week one you go out w/trainer (called a TE for Training Engineer). You'll do most, if not all of the driving that week.

Final week will be spent learning Qualcomm , trip planning & making sure you can test okay on road & backing.

If you get frustrated, just remember; lots of companies make you team (while paying you less) for more than a month before you get to make some decent money.

Good luck!

I start orientation on Tuesday. How difficult is the backing during the first week? What kind of backs do you do? I'm pretty confident with my ability to do it. Do you spend 3 weeks gone from home or do they give you the option to drive home before you meet with a trainer? I would just like some info on their orientation. I just graduated school and got my cdl

I went through Schneider's training this Summer in Atlanta. Making a little bit of an assumption that training at the other Operating Centers is similar, pretty much the only backing you'll do in week 1 is on a backing yard sticking your trailer between two other trailers. It wasn't difficult, but the training yards in ATL have A LOT of space...absolutely nothing to worry about in front of the truck.

I think you can expect to be away from home the entire three weeks unless you live pretty close to the Operating Center. Week one's class will run through Saturday. For me and most of my classmates, the trainer (TE) picked up the trainee at the OC on Monday morning of week 2. Although, we had one guy get picked up on Sunday and had two others who had to travel to their trainers. So, it will depend on how the chips fall and that's probably only if you're driving your own vehicle. I don't think Schneider will pay to send you home and back.

Overall, it's a decent experience. I've read it on here a bunch...there's good trainers and bad trainers out there. Schneider was no different in my experience. I had a pretty good trainer, one not-so-good (being kind), and an awesome training engineer (the person you go on the road with for the 2nd week). Probably pretty standard.