I've just finished going through the Schneider training and am Thinking of going to Swift so I can get more time with a road engineer. I've applied to other companies but most do not accept the Schneider training as being sufficient.
After I went through the Schneider Training Academy I only spent 4 days with a training engineer on the road. I don't think that is enough. I told the person who was testing me during my Skill Qualifying testing that I didn't feel confident in buttonhooks and backing. He told me he couldn't send me back out with a TE unless I failed the testing. As you can guess I passed the SQT and then passed the state CDL test, an Schneider employee gave the state CDL test. Just to show you how confident they are in me they gave me a " Trade in truck" with 750,000 miles. Because its a trade in truck they won't put any money into it. I couldn't get to pass a pretrip and could look at the ground through a hole in the cab by the bunk. The Mechanics suggested I ask for a different truck and when I did my sr told me to take it to the shop. I really feel I was ripped off. I know of people from my class that spent 3 weeks with a TE and the training cost them the same. I really wish I had gone to an accredited 3rd party school. From my experience Schneider is no better then the other mills.