I went in the Summer of 2000 at their Charlotte facility. The instructors where all pretty good, the Hotel was nice, and they fed you for lunch and dinner at the Schneider facility. All in all not bad. A lot of stuff crammed into under 2 weeks.
My lovely classmates where not so nice. They had a bet going that I wouldn't make it. I was the only woman in class, and I am pretty outspoken. Who knows why, but several of the guys where not exactly gentlemen. Oh well, I made, but not all of them did.
As a woman though, I believe Schneider treated me very professional, and even though I never actually worked for them, I believe they are a good beginners company.
One thing I didn't like was the fact that the weaker person of the two people per instructor gets a lot more driving time. And while I am not sure that I was all that great, compared the the skizzoid freak I got paired with I was supertrucker Sabine from day one. I was scared of dying with him driving, and after a week I finally asked to be let out of the truck with him, which wound up not being necessary, since he got recycled, but I thanked God he didn't kill us every day, while I only got to drive a couple of hours, he spend hours trying to crash the truck.
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For Anthony, who was taken from our lives much too young. I love you honey, and I will always miss you.
~21 December 1973 - 29 September 2006~
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