They do start at .32 now with 3 years used to be .34-.35 but they lowered it. I was making .355 when I left in Oct and never asked what Ill be making when I go back.

Layover pay is $15 per hour in 15min increments after 2 hours and they do pay this right to the minute. I collected this every time I set longer than 2 hours. I think border pay is 25$ each way.

No toll cards or devices but you pay and they reimburse. They put 200$ on your card as an advance for this and only take it out of your check if you take it off and do not scan a reciept. If you run out they will give you more.(I had one week well over $400 in tolls) The reciepts are kinda weird, you gotta get an authorization number b4 you final on your load and write it on the reciept. If you forget you can call your dispatcher and they can still get you one. (had it happen to me once or twice)

They have prepass. They have extra stop pay and its a nice set up, the more stops you have the better the pay. I got this quite a bit. They have layover pay and breakdown pay although I never set long enough to get either one. Usually if they seen I was going to be setting any length of time I was usually deadheaded to a load. The most I was ever deadheaded was 1500 miles to pick up a load going 500 right back into canada. (Calgary-WI-Toronto).

The thing I liked is that If they said they were going to pay you something they payed it. I didnt get a load scanned one week because I delivered in BC on the night of cutoff so it held over to the next week. I ran over 3000 that week without the extra load that held over plus my first bonus was going to hit. I called payroll to see what I could do to not pay so much in taxes on basically 4500+ miles and a 1000$ bonus. They worked with me and helped me out immensily so I could get as muuch of my money as possible without hurting me at tax time.

I dunno just more info that I had on them.

 

I didnt go to either of these companies. I cancelled the orientation for Celadon and held it out for another week and ended up going to JB. I know what yall are thinkin "oh god why them" but I am happy with it. I'm running a local here and the same job is opening in Indy in July. Hours are a little longer than what I expected but the pay is good. If it keeps up the way it is it will average to about 47,000 a year. Even if the pay goes down a little in the winter that's ok Ill still be making more than OTR because of expenses beings im home everynight. Well gotta go see yall out there.

 

Well now i (his wife) am going to be taking over this conversation because tom has went with JB and the local never opened and now he is going OTR.issedoff: His recruiter told him that the local was to open in May and we waited till the last day of May and guess what, it never opened. She kept telling us the local in Indy was to open July 1st and that if he was on OTR for 30 days then he could switch to that. So today he started orientation and his 30 days would be up July 1st which worked out great...so we thought. Now the recruitr is telling us the local in Indy opens in June and she doesnt think he can get into it because its before his 30 days. He was with JB before and it was nothing but lies then and its that way now too. i tried getting him to realize that but he wanted back in a truck so bad he didnt want to listen to me so now he found out the hard way.

Does anyone know what the hometime and the pay is? we were told last week, by the recruiter, that the pay went up to .34 from .33 and that the hometime was 12 out 2 in from 14 out and 2 in. But we have been hearing different things about this. I will try to keep you posted on what really happens at JB...one things for sure, they wouldnt want me to be a recruiter, they would never have any drivers.

 

thbogle> too bad about JB. I think I talked to Kathy when I applied to SNI 3 years ago. She definitely could use some people skills, but she's just the recruiter, nothing to do with the actual job. I figure these people like to keep it to the point. The whole thing about moving, i'm not exactly sure what that's about, but there is something about your job depending upon your domicile. She wasn't trying to say he couldn't move, but if he wanted to move, the SNI wouldn't be able to keep him on.

Schneider was a good place to start, and if they paid more i'd still be there. For that matter, I feel better knowing they would probably always take me back if I were ever in a bind. I appreciated the fact that they seemed real interested in staying in business and keeping the drivers happy enough to keep out the union thugs.

Hope things turn around for him, but whatever happens, a crappy job is still better than a bad reference, so he may just have to gut it up for a year or whatever.

 

The reason for moving is because we have a child starting school in the fall and we want him to start in Indy and not here. As long as he is driving OTR we cant move. This is going to sound terrible, but I cant handle moving to a new place with three kids and have no family or friends and my husband being stuck on the road. Today is my first day with all three kids by myself since our last one was born, and really it hasnt been a good day for any of us especially since our oldest understands daddy wont be home for a while but doesnt understand why. I can just imagine what you guys are thinking of me while you are reading this.

 

Do what you gotta do, but driving means compromises for families. Statistically, the odds may be stacked against you and yours. My wife doesn't even have her license, and our daughter was like 2, so that was double fun when I was OTR. If he is going to be the primary breadwinner, he's going to have to take it on the chin and eat the poo while he puts in his time. A reputation as a job-hopper definitely works against you. Doesn't matter how good the reasons are, it all looks the same on paper.

 

Wow! Sorry about your experience with that garbage company. It's funny but I meet a lot of re-hires that had a bad first time with the company but came back for more. I can't figure it out why people would do that. Just shows that women know more than men!!!! I wish you had read my posts on my experience with that company. They lie right to your face and several of the guys in orientation on my go-around were told they would get local jobs and then at orientation, poof!, sorry those are closed but you can still go otr and by the way if you decide not to find your own way home. JB Hunt sucks. Period.
I sure hope things work out for you. At least I'm not married and have no kids so when I had enough I brought the truck back and went home.

PS: I'm at Schneider now and very happy. So far they have been a great company. I just asked for Friday off and my DBL said not a problem.

 

Well he made it through the first day and of course he keeps hearing all this about local jobs, and maybe i am wrong for not believing them, maybe now that he is in the company he will have a chance for a local but i still dont believe it. I know i cant handle the maybies anymore. I completely understand that we have to compromise on stuff, its been six years now, i know what has to be done but its hard to do so when i am working full time, going to school full time and trying to raise three kids alone. I have given up on school for until he gets a local. Sometimes i wish he would have went with schneider but the idea that we would be stuck here in IL for another six months would not have been good. We have been trying to move out of state for about two years now and well we ended up having kids instead which cut back on the money to move. I just hope he has made the right decision and as much as i hate to say this, i hope that he can prove me wrong and that I will have to admit he was right.

 

Well now let me tell you what happened to my ex regarding Schneider. At the time, my ex-wife wanted to drive with me and I had 25 years experience on the road. She was a lot younger than I was and she wanted to get her some trainin on her own so she went to Schneider. Well they put her up in a cheesy motel, along with another lady. Late that night (I was on the road that week). a bunch of other students got drunk and one of them tried to break into her room, you can imagine what he wanted. She told him to get out or she was going to kick his *** (she was pretty physical and probably could have), but she was trying to stay out of trouble. She reported the incident to Schneider authorities the next day, and the people that had been drinking all stuck together and said she had been flashing everybody and asked for it. The woman that was staying with my wife said that wasn't true, but Schneider fired her anyway, and turned her out into the parking lot, with no place to go. I drove 1000 miles straight to get back there when I heard that, and when I got back I literally threw the keys at them and told them what they could do with their CHICKEN**** company. So much for Schneider. They got a no drinking policy at the motel, so they say. Phonies. Nothing but hypocrites.

As for me well I kinda got a history since I worked for Schneider Transport in the late 70's when they was a Teamsters outfit. That was before ole' Al "Ebeneezer" Schneider and his son Donny started up Schneider National and they slowly bled us dry feedin all the work to the non-union SNL.

In the years 1978-1982, I made $32,000/year workin at Schneider Transport. I'd have to make $96,000 a year in today's wages to equal what I made back then. Ain't that a cryin shame? Many company hands today are still earnin $30,000-$40,000.

 

It dosn't matter what we think! Many of us do know what your going thru and no it's not easy. Keep in mind that it will get better and have your hubby contact Celedon and admit his mistake ... ya never know. Best of luck