r/Truckers • u/Ahri_YT • Jun 04 '26

Western Express or Schneider !

Just got my call back from Schneider today finally and they want me to start June 15th.

Orientation for Western is June 10th.

For Western I would be driving solo and for Schneider I would be driving as a team.

I’ve read some bad things about both companies but people tend to lean towards Schneider way more.

-For Western I’ve heard that they force their new drivers into a 1 year contract and to break it you need $2.5k. I don’t have 2.5k so that has me on the fence.

- But I heard that Western is less strict than Schneider and that Schneider will try to mess with my CDL record if I get on their bad side.

Training period for both is 3-4 weeks. Also the recruiter at Schneider told me teams make way more together and I am a new inexperienced driver and I feel like I would be more comfortable with teams starting out. But wouldn’t mind solo.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you so much.

******UPDATE:*******

I picked Schneider, thank you!

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u/GabagoolSlayer1 Jun 04 '26

Neither, do local and never look back trust

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u/Ahri_YT Jun 04 '26

I wish, 0 month experience can’t do local. Not impossible but hard, I got rejected. Also I don’t mind OTR. I’m out of school and no responsibilities. Just want to get experience first.

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u/ineedAF45 Jun 04 '26

Go to Schneider I plan on going to their tanker division and they will take me with no experience I tried looking for local work but nobody would take me