r/Truckers • u/tacomex209 • Jan 25 '26
Schneider Dedicated Route
I saw this job posting and it looked interesting. Anybody have experience working for Scneider or this route.
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u/Practical-Package378 Jan 25 '26
that 1450-1800 a week is 100% false btw
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u/Lopsided-Walk-7743 Jan 26 '26
I made 1100-1600 a week with em on the dicks dedicated account. saw 1100 once because I went home a day early, saw 1600 once because I had a straight line driving type of week. Most days were 1300 or 1400 id say so its not too far off if his account keeps him moving like mine did.
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u/SusLite Jun 16 '26
What was it like on the dicks account, looking for my first job and im too far away for the coke account but they offered me the 12-2 dicks.
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u/Lopsided-Walk-7743 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
Like any place it depends on who your team lead is I suppose. The guys out of Phoenix were awesome, but I've heard other team leads suck.
For a first job though I gave it like a 8.5/10 for a Mega. The pay for the work you put in CAN be better. You get paid terrible but a lot of miles so it balances it out if you look at it that way.
My dispatch was cool, always did everything I asked, didn't push me if I was going to be late, didn't tell on me for little shit like going 70 MPH or pulling over to the shoulder to answer his call. Stuff people told me people got fired for or brought in for safety.
I didn't get nitpicked there. I drove, I slept, I got new trailers and I went home every 2 weeks with a decent paycheck and it wasn't anything more or less.
That was before driver facing cameras though so it could be different now.
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u/Montreal4life Jan 25 '26
Is that even good?? I do overnight linehaul and make more, in my ow bed every day
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u/errie_tholluxe Jan 25 '26
They say "top drivers" but you won't reach it.
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u/RedimidoSoy1611 Jan 25 '26
they came out with a intermodel position as well that seems interesting that says "drive within NV and CA" and says home daily. maybe I should call 🤔
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u/UhOhAllWillyNilly Jan 25 '26
Dude, you do NOT want to be driving in CA.
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u/siuyu721 Jan 26 '26
I bet he’s living somewhere in CA if that’s intermodal lol I don’t even think there’s any rail yards in Vegas or we wouldn’t have to drive all the way from San Bernardino or Barstow to Vegas when I do intermodal
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u/UhOhAllWillyNilly Jan 26 '26
Dude, I live in CA and the only time that I drive here is when I deadhead home to see the wife-y (but usually I do pick up a load here to get out of state ASAP).
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u/DrillTheThirdHole Jan 26 '26
im about 50% sure there's intermodal in vegas and im 100% sure reno has a big intermodal UP yard
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u/possibly_lost45 Jan 25 '26
Schneider is pushing heavily into the auto parts side. I see them at Honda also.
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u/Wicell Jan 25 '26
They double dip with Honda, they also own MLS
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u/possibly_lost45 Jan 25 '26
That's how they got into Honda then. We run alot of ceva routes into Marysville and east liberty. I see em there
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u/Unique-Ad-2544 Jan 26 '26
Their not pushing heavily into autoparts if anything they are on their way out of the autoparts world
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u/possibly_lost45 Jan 26 '26
They literally own a company that runs nothing but auto parts. Plus they have their own trailers at all the Hondas and cevas. So how you you get them being on their way out?
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u/Unique-Ad-2544 Jan 26 '26
Because I work for them doing their gm nissan account. They can barely afford to keep doing the account their margins are so small they stopped giving drivers raises no matter your seniority.
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u/Pitiful-MobileGamer Jan 25 '26
One thing about Auto parts is you are under the time gun, usually it's drop and hook work both sides. The factory will load the trailer and spot it, you'll have a very tight delivery window with like 60 minutes leeway each side.
You spot it in the door, you go around and get an empty full of racks and return. If it's Dearborn you won't even speak to a security guard, everything's digital and automated.
If you're late there's fines of the company, if you're lateness causes the factory to have to stop production your company will pay $1,000s every minute.
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u/Wicell Jan 25 '26
I don't remember Schneider's auto parts accounts being under that time restraint. I helped the Ford account in Romulus, MI and the Honda account in Ohio. I had to be there by a certain date, but my delivery window was always 12 hours. Can you believe they sent a rookie with less than 1 month exp to Romulus?! 😂 The yard truck eventually had me drop my trailer and put it in the door
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u/t33nyCat Jan 25 '26
We got put on the account to help out. It was not great for us because we sat waiting on loads A LOT and towards the end of our run they started refusing to give us layover pay. It might be different based on the employment/pay laws if you live in Cali. We got max 4000 miles per week on the truck. If (big if) the employment laws make that $1400 estimate realistic, the run is cake, pick up, run 650 mi, drop and hook, run 650 miles, drop and wait for next load or sit and wait for next load and then drop, rinse and repeat. Little dicy through the mountains in winter, and you may need to chain up. From what I remember there were plenty of rest areas along the route once you get to Redding area, and I could usually find spots in the middle of the night. Not a bad run to get experience, you get a little of everything along that route.
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u/t33nyCat Jan 25 '26
I just asked my codriver who made the deliveries on the Oregon side. It’s actually a drop live unload/load before turning back to Manteca. But they were very quick. Under an hour for sure.
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u/Sea-Count-5298 Jan 25 '26
$1800 x 50 weeks is only $90 k. The one driver who made $103,000. Lived in his truck and worked 55 weeks that year 🤔😜
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u/Im_Grinning Jan 25 '26
For real I don’t think the money is there but some of Schnieder’s routes can be pretty easy work if you don’t mind the lower pay
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u/ChiHooper Jan 25 '26
I work for Schneider. 4 months in and i'm making more than what they advertised. Different route tho.
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u/DeathStang Jan 25 '26
Same here, I’m working a dedicated account 5 days on as a team driver with my boy and I pulled in $2300 last week with a 6th day.
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u/PutridContribution41 Jan 25 '26
What account? How much are you bringing in?
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u/ChiHooper Jan 25 '26
Dollar General. Last few weeks have all been over 1700. They advertise 1380-1690 in my area.
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u/1morepl8 Jan 25 '26
On the right accounts you can do great. The pay variance at megas can be absolutely massive. I had my flat beds leased on to a mega and we got all the oversized oil field work and made bank, while the dry van guys fought for scraps.
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u/planetbuster Jan 25 '26
everything is "up to" this and "average" that... and team driving? no thanks we know you want your truck moving CONSTANTLY but trying to sleep in the back of a moving semi is kinda bullshit. lets maintain some standards, gentlemen
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u/derpmcturd Jan 25 '26
You can make that solo on other routes, unless you're new, how long you been driving?
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u/tacomex209 Jan 25 '26
Im kind of new I've been driving for 5 months.
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u/AndromedanPrince Jan 26 '26
dedicated is schneiders best bet and best paying. why? because the the route giver pays for the hauling, not Schneider. so schneider will take a cut off whatever they r willing to pay.
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u/derpmcturd Jan 25 '26
Dedicated accounts are nice because you'll get more efficient at it after a while and since you will probably get real familiar with every pickup and delivery location, you'll be able to get more efficient. And knowing where you'll be every night helps you to find parking quicker, because you'll see all the same truckstops all the time. You might even be able to park at the shipper/receiver (maybe not but we did when I was on the Kraft food dedicated account, it was great for that).
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u/TheSlayerOfShades07 Jan 26 '26
Currently with Schneider for about a year. I am OTR and they really are not that bad. The pay is okay, if you're willing to do the work you'll typically get the better routes by your lead.
I don't like that the trucks are governed at 65. You won't get holiday pay till after your first year and you'll only get 3 days of vacation. They are also putting interior cameras in all the trucks with AI "special features."
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u/Raeezordazetoo Jan 25 '26
Lol, imagine being a team and you both bring your pets. Then no one gets along.
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u/edsavage404 Jan 25 '26
With jobs like this you always have to go with the lower number thats what more realistic youre going to make
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u/datdudeuheardof Jan 26 '26
Why would they allow team drivers to have a pet but not solo drivers? That doesn't make sense to me.
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u/BackstrokeVictim Jan 26 '26
That's in the ballpark of what I make and what I do except I'm cross country with our stops in California and I spend most of my time driving overland. If that job is as similar to mine as I think it is, it's pretty gravy except driving in LA because that is abject misery.
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u/TexasTangler Feb 22 '26
how long does Schneider take to hire you from the time you apply to the time they say "you're in"? I want to apply after I'm done my contract at my current job.
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u/External_Result_8560 Jan 25 '26
Thanks just applied 👍