Sharing my experience at Averitt (July 2014)

Discussion in 'Averitt' started by Zephex, Jul 17, 2014.

  1. warrior81

    warrior81 Light Load Member

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    is it with averitt ?
     
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  3. Lone Star Trucker

    Lone Star Trucker Light Load Member

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  4. warrior81

    warrior81 Light Load Member

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    thanks man :)
     
  5. Lone Star Trucker

    Lone Star Trucker Light Load Member

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    No problem, I'm heading to orientation on Aug 18th and I'm pretty happy. From what I have read on the forum and hear from other drivers, Averitt is a good company to get in with. You should definetly follow up and see what you think. Good luck!!
     
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  6. warrior81

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    my main intention was to find a job in the oilfield .but none of the companies that has housing(man camp)that i applied with called me back yet .and since An averitt recruiter came to my school i thought i would give them a shot .i also was approved with stevens transport,and have a phone interviews with Sysco .lets see what happens .thank you
     
  7. Zephex

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    Yep he has it right. No I'm not flatbed and I don't miss it. Trainer will stay in passenger seat but mine spent some time in the sleeper. He wasn't sleeping, just stretching out and on his laptop. This was only after he was confident in my ability. Don't think you will be all alone lol.
     
  8. Zephex

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    So I'm in my second week of being OTR with my trainer. We were under a load going to Arkansas. Turns out, my truck was about 30 minutes away from our delivery location. So they cut me loose today! I am in a 2011 freightliner cascadia. Despite its age and having nearly 450k miles on it.....she runs great. Not even an air leak! After doing the best pretrip I've ever done, I found out the tractor had a blown tail light and the apu wouldn't come on. Told my temporary FM and he put me on an empty move to Memphis. They are taking care of it now. He said I could idle as much as I wanted till it was repaired and he would note that on my truck file. My home is Atlanta so they are going to give me a load in the morning heading that way for a delivery of Friday morning. I'll go home for the weekend. When I come back I'll empty move up to Cookeville TN to spend 4 days at backing training in my own truck. Its over on Thursday and I'll empty move back to Atlanta. Then I'll go home. After that I'll ofically start running solo.

    The truck has not been upgraded to elogs yet so I get to run paper. Either system is fine with me because I don't cheat on my logs regardless. The inside of the truck was clean and it didn't stink or anything. I still plan to buy some good smelling cleaning stuff and hit it good while I'm at backing school. Outside was FILTHY. But it has been sitting on a gravel lot. 2 trips through the truck wash took care of that pretty quickly. Truck runs 65 and has good power. Strong engine brakes and you can barely hear them. I thought they weren't working at first cause I couldn't hear them till I got below 40mph.

    Wow.....as I was typing this, my truck is ready. APU and light repaired in under an hour. Love it!
     
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  9. Nukem

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    LTL is not local. LTL is Less Than TruckLoad; Meaning you pick up a full trailer going to multiple stops. 2 off the top of my head are Petsmart and Tues Morning stores. Usually there are 3 stops per load, and its not in the same area as your home domicile. Local is day cab, maybe a shuttle depending on the area. Check out the website Averittcareers.com and see if there is even an opening for a local in Louisville. As for the money, that will be up to you if you and your family can live off of what Averitt pays. Trucking is hit or miss per week. Some are good, some... Not so much.


    Also, try and talk to a local recruiter for the area. They can tell you more about the KY area than I can.
     
  10. Cheez

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    LTL (less then truckload). LTL is where a local driver runs around the city picking up freight from many customers. Could be just 1 pallet and as small as a box. Then they take it back to the averitt SVC and they load the freight on other trailers with other freight that is going to another city. A shuttle driver will take the trailer to another Averitt SVC and there local drivers deliver that freight and pick up more freight.
    Truckload is basically picking up from one customer and delivering to another. Sometimes you might have more then one stop like the pet smart but it's not LTL It's still TL but a multistop load.

    They have dedicated. This is where a customer uses Averitt truck and drivers like their own personnel private fleet. Drivers in Dedicated work for one customer. Lots of these accounts you do a lot of hand unloading like Dollar General or Family Dollar

    also they have Flex. It's part of dedicated but the flex drivers move to whatever account needs them at that time. You might be on a account for 1 week or 6 months. That's what I do. I am a Flex driver. Lots of freedom and I love it. Averitt is a great place to work. They are not the highest paying of the trucking jobs out there but they do have a lot of benefits others don't. I love all the SVC They have. I get to wash my truck all the time. I hardly fuel at truck stops anymore. That's worth a lot to me. Makes life on the road a little easier.
     
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  11. warrior81

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    thanks a lot for these clarifications.I applied at their regional student training as i just got my CDL one week ago .the recruiter told me that this is the only position i am eligible for at the moment since others require experience .the thing that bugs me is that they also require to sign a training contract for 6 months so if i leave before that i will have to pay them for the training i got .i dunnno if this is normal or no .
     
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