Schneider National
Reviews and Complaints

I just recently was in orientation December 2021 and of course I had to take a dot UA and a pre employment drug screen and I wasn't worried because I don't do drugs. I passed my DOT UA but failed my hair follicle test. To say I was shocked is an understatement because the drug that they say I tested positive for I never have taken in my life let alone any other drugs. I've tried disputing the test. I've asked for a retest even offered to give my blood but the Dr wouldn't even entertain the idea. He was very rude and unprofessional when all I was doing was trying to get an understanding of how this could happen. Asking me when was the last time I've used when I kept telling him I never took a drug in my life. I never felt so humiliated in my life. And from the stories I see. it's the same doctor that everyone else has had problems with in regards to drug tests. For one the specimens are take from one location and sent to another location hundreds of miles away. I feel like my test wasn't handled in a safe Manor to prevent some type of contamination. couldn't get a clear line of communication from anyone to figure out a way things could hopefully be resolved Now I feel like my career is over before it even starts.

I am currently going through the exact same thing with this company. The exact same doctor (Dr. Lopez) has stated I tested positive for the use of marijuana. I have never consumed any drugs. This doctor is extremely rude and disrespectful. I have been constantly fighting this issue and I continue to get the run around. Has anyone received any legal help are advice.

September 8th of 2021 that I was working for a Pharmaceutical Company, I left the company to become a Trucker and I passed my driving test on October 8th. Started to work for Western Express Inc., for safety purposes I left to join Schneider and I joined the orientation November 1st. On the first day, I did two type of drug screens which were the hair follicle test and the urine analysis. On the October 6th, I was in class taking their final exam and received a call from DR Lopez. He stated that I failed the drug screen, he said that I passed the urine and I didn't pass the Hair follicle test. Then, he questioned me if I ever used Hydrocodone and I said to him no. He insisted that I told that I never used any illegal drugs in my entire life and I was trying to call him after to get more information. He never picked up the phone, it was from a Florida number he called me. So I let the two instructors at the orientation know what's going on and they asked me to leave the premises. I kept trying to reach out to him, he never picked and I received a call from Schneider Safety Department to tell me that I was terminated if I ever need help for drug usage. I told him that I don't do drugs, he refuse to understand me. I went back to find a number that listed on the drug test receipt and number that connected me to Dr Barnett. He asked me to provide him a prescription that I was legally taking Hydrocodone and I kept telling that I maybe exposed to it. Because I manufactured this drug 4 times a week before September 8th. I have documents to prove them that I was working in the pharmaceutical company and a partner with myself manufactured these drugs. The Personal Protective Equipment maybe not secured enough to avoid exposition and didn't know if it would get into my system. He refused to accept me to prove him that I was working for the pharmaceutical company, Tris Pharma Inc and kept asking me for prescription. It is insane to hurt someone chance of getting a job. This is something Schneider National needs to look at.

I have been transporting for schneider for over a year. I was working with one broker. He was a very rude broker but I dealt with it til I could not. I was then given to another broker that was never there. Besides my trucks going down here and there my trucks were consistent for the most part. This broker was not. Always issues with loads. So a lot had to be cancelled because of that. That broker stated he was going to have us removed as carriers and that is not fair or right. His manager basically took the brokers side and cancelled us. I need to speak to someone above his manager. Im trucking llc has done a lot of work for schneider and to be just dropped like that is not right. I do sl loads for schneider and never had one issue with the loads or that broker. Can someone call me [protected] im trucking llc mc 1110009

Was in orientation for a week. Today, I got terminated, because the same Dr. Lopez mentioned in another post on a page regarding this company revealed an impossible conclusion that I used meth. He said it came up on the hair follicles test. I NEVER TOUCHED THAT STUFF OR ANY OTHER ILLEGAL DRUG IN MY LIFE! I have every intention of getting another identical type of test(follicle and urine) from another doctor and lab when I get home. Now, it is true that I have taken legitimate prescription psychiatric medications before, and currently take one. I even explained this(had done so even before the samples were taken!), but neither Dr. Lopez nor Schneider seemed at all interested in even entertaining the possibility of a false positive. I even asked for a blood test, but was told that 'policy didn't allow for that, we have to let you go'. [censored] ON SCHNEIDER! Now my career is probably finished before it even got started.

There was a black man that came to polks brookshire bro. On 259 n in nacogdoches tx last week. He asked for a jump so me being disabled mind u. I gave him a jump now i have spent 500 plus on my jeep and now im needing a computer. I called and the gentalman i spoke with said he couldnt help me because i didnt get tbe trk number. Well he knows who called in with troubles of u guys trks right? I wasnt thinking i needed the trk number for any reason. I was trying to help a man stranded. I would pay myself but im on a limited income. So now im asking the company to imburse me for what ive already spent with the imbursment of the repairs of my computer. If any questions u can call at [protected] or [protected]. Thanks and will be looking foward to hear from you.

We booked 3 loads, on a Thursday, the loads are supposed to be picked up on a Saturday. There were direct instructions to call before you arrived. That is the way our loading operation works. Schneider did what they wanted to do. One truck showed up 1 hour and 47 minutes late, the second truck showed up without calling. The third truck never showed up. No one at Schneider notified us that what was happening. We called don Monday to check delivery status, thinking that someone would have called if there was a problem with the pickup. Not one load was loaded, their only offer was to cancel the loads, or our company to pay them for being late and not following directions, which is what they did and the left us with 3 loads to try to find trucks for. The Supervisor Nate, said he did not care, and he canceled the loads as if our business was no big deal to him. What Schneider has done, is their stock has gone public, they laid off most of their employees, and they have outsourced the jobs to the Philippines. They don't care about your business, and they are poorly trained in tact and professionalism. .

I am a former schneider employee. I applied back in May 2010 to become a team driver again with the company. I did the DOT drug/screen and the company hair testing. I passed the DOT drug testing but to my suprised the hair test results came back positive. I had never in my life taken any kind of illegal drugs or prescribed drugs that were not prescribed to me by my doctor. The MRO doctor that informed me of the results he was cold and rude and spoke to me like i was druggie liar. He refused to give me his supervisors information and no one in his office would tell the name of his superiors. I spoke to schneiders, I believe it was the regulatory department, and tried to explain to them that it was a mistake that i would be more than happy to retake the test even at my cost at that very moment or take a test that went back further than the 90 days. They said it was AGAINST COMPANY POLICY that the only way they would retest was if the mro doctor said there was reason but the mro doctor said he wouldn't say there was reason because when he called he asked if I was on medication i said no because i was not but after he told me the results and i did research on how in the world i could have failed a drug test, the one test i never in life i thought I would fail, I read otc diet pills could cause a false positive and if he would have asked if i HAD TAKEN anything within 90days instead of asking if WAS TAKING anything not giving me a time frame, I would have told him I had taken some strong over the counter diet pills weeks earlier that could have possibly been the cause of the false positive because that's what it was false. i ordered them from the radio and they were not on any list of meds a driver couldn't take. Either the few diet pills i did take was the cause or the test was just flat out wrong. but since he didn't schneider put me on a black list which is not fair. I tried to speak to supervisors and supervisors bosses at schneider and the mro office but everyone stone walled me. I was told I couldn't apply with the company for 5 years and my husband was hired on and i rode with him until he was told by his dispatcher that i couldn't even be in the truck. This experience has not kept me from getting a job in any way i am currently employed driving i have taken hair sample tests for employers over they years spur of the moment and have had no issues at all. I will never again ever in life apply with schneider because of the way I was talked to and treated by company employees and the mro office. My issue with schneider, the reason that I just cant let it go is that another driver out of NC i believe failed his hair test it came back positive he told them it was a mistake and they RETESTED. For ME its against company policy to retest but for HIM its sure buddy we'll retest. his test came back negative and he has been a happy schneider driver ever since. WHY when this OLDER MALE driver failed and said it was a mistake he was retested but me a YOUNGER FEMALE was treated like trash on crack, banned and black listed for several years? Can someone please explain this too me because its not right.

Some time after going through orientation and finally getting the perfect team partner, we were on the road going through Wyoming in March. A blizzard shut down I-80 east and westbound, so we stopped in the Little America truck stop parking lot. After about two hours of blizzard conditions, I decided to get a couple of beers to blow off some steam from some hard running. I thought nothing of it, but the snitch who saw me buy the beer and follow me to the truck had other ideas. I was never told in oreintation and have read CDL manuals from several states that say nothing about it. The highway was shut down for 18 hours, and being a team, we would be ready for the next shift. We were contacted on the Qualcom and sent to a hotel room immediately. The next morning we were contacted by our DBL, and without any kind of program or some sort of way to be put back in their graces we were terminated on the spot. They arranged for a rental, and that was that. When I returned the rental and sent in the receipts for reembersment they said that the prices didn't match the negotiated price. I told them I had nothing to do with the bargain and expected to be reimbersed for what I had spent. Instead I was stuck with 400+ dollars worth of the bill. Not only were we terminated with no program for reinstatement, I was stuck with a bill of more than $400. Out of a job in BFE, forced to get a rental I didn't agree to, and stuck with a bill I didn't have money for. Now I have a busted bank, a ###ed up record and little possibility of second chance to prove myself. Had I to do it again, of course I would get the motel room first, knowing spies are everywhere, and just know that those people who snitch will get there just deserves.

I drove for Schneider National Carriers for a year as a company driver, then decided to try to become an owner operator through their tractor lease to own program.

The deck was stacked against me before I ever left the yard due to several factors: High fuel costs (fuel surcharge was never enough even when driving slower than company trucks), low miles due to dispatcher/ truck constantly being in shop for repairs (truck was a complete lemon).

For 8 months I struggled to make a profit, but could never make it. Schneiders lease program is a sham and it is impossible to succeed unless you violate DOT rules.

I decided to go thur Schneider Training program after talking to my friends and checking them on the internet (www.schneider.com). So i went thur the interview and they sent me the paperwork and the Contract for the cost of the program. Which is about $3500. So i sign it and i went to training in GreenBay on Jan 12 2004. When i got there everything was fine until i slip on there yard (they didn't clean off the ice) and hurt my knee. So i had to go to the hospital and i got sent home the next day by (Don). So i got clear by my doctor and i went back on the 19th and i pass the Training Class. Now i went thur JumpStart and pass thur that.

I went over the road with Truck Driver Trainer I thought i was going to become a truck driver. I thought wrong, I was packing for the next road trip when Schneider call me. She said on my application i said i was never had a suspended license before. Now when i apply online i made a mistake on the application. I said yes for everything. When i suppose to said NO. But Lisa Call back And i told her NO for the other questions, but when she ask me of the Suspended License i told her Yes back in 1998 in Indiana for no insurance on my car.She said she is going to said NO because its not important. Well i guess it was because the terminate me from the program because of this suspending license i had in 98 for no insurance on my car.

They told me this ### that i was still Suspending. Now this is 2004 i was clear back in Jan 2000. I call in Indiana DMV and got my MVR from them. Plus if i was still suspending i wouldn't be able to surrender my Indiana License for my Wisconsin License back in May 2002, and no way in hell i could have been driving a school bus for since Aug 2002. So In closing Schneider is a bunch of ###. I warn this to anyone thinking of Schneider as a good way to become a truck driver. Go to J.B.Hunt, SWIFT, or a good trucking school.