My overall experience with Stevens Transport was very unpleasent at best.

It started out with the bus ride from FL. to Dallas which took 26 hours. When I arrived there everything I had been told to lure me out there was a lie, as most drivers are aware, this is common place in the industry.

After going through my first week, what they refer to as orientation 1 I was assigned to a trainer. This trainer said that he would get me through their "8,000 miles of retraining" that they felt I needed. I am a driver of 15 plus years experience. My first week out on the road with the trainer showed me that the trainer needed retraining and as well, needed anger management classes. This trainer consistently would tailgate both truck trailer and automobiles at a dangerously close proximately, leaving no reaction time available to stop. He as well was so busy playing with his cd player he once tried to drive us off a mountain. While I was driving at one point, someone in front of us was going too slow, as I was passing the vehicle he had half his body hanging out the passenger side, screaming at the car next to us. I should have snapped the wheel to the left and dropped him out the window, and kept on going.

Before my training began, I was put on a medical hold due to the fact that I have a scar from heart surgery from when I was 5 years of age. This didn't sit well with their physician, that informed me that most kids who had surgery on their hearts didn't survive (although clearly I am alive) They sent me to a heart specialist, because apparently my regular physician, and the fact that they could hear my heart, wasn't good enough. Then they made me pay the bill!!

I shouldn't forget that their training was "suppose" to be only 6 weeks, had I stayed it would have been 11 weeks. Also the money I was told I would be paid before I left my home state changed drastically when I got out there.

Just be aware that should you go to Stevens Transport for work, make sure you have records of every truck you've ever driven, all your medical records from birth, and please make sure that if they put you in truck # 7977...run...run fast!!! Just stay away from this driver!he will get you killed!!!!!.

You allege 15yrs. of experience and you allow yourself to go through that? With a substandard company such as Stevens? Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this picture? You can color me incredulous! I can't believe any thinking person would do that.

Hey man, you're right there, but I'm a family man, and there are no jobs here where I live, I was trying to save my home.
Do you know of any decent companies hiring?

I got my CDL thru Stevens in 2000 your trainer sounded like my first one I had there. My trainer was always angry and he rearly let me drive. I requested a new trainer which I got after the first week. Stevens also sent me to the doctor because of my Asthma which they knew about and the doctor approved me during the pre-hire. I ended up paying the $50.00 bill.

....and im glad I didnt. Its there lost I guess. I just cant deal with incompetent people. The way I see it, if the recruiter seems like a dummy, then im pretty sure they were hired by one lol.

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O man what they dont eat chicken in florida? Well in my 2 years with stevens I only went to fl. once i took chicken in and brought orange juice out of Tropicana in Bradenton. by the way I had a trainner like the one you had. I simply told him i was getting off your truck cause you aint killing me he was a owner operator i should have reported him to safety, but i didnt want to be a nark. well good luck

I made the mistake of surrendering my CDL back in 2003. In 2007, I went to Stevens Academy. Oh, my (bleeping) God! Please, bear in mind, I originally went to driving school in 1998, had a ten week course, and graduated with at least an idea of what I didn't know about truck driving. When I got to Stevens, I was immediately annoyed by the instructors due to my refusal to provide the company with my cell phone number. The issue was about emergency contact information. Here's what it is. I still (at 33) live at home with my mother. Between driving truck, and a couple of wasted years in college, I didn't see any point in getting a place of my own. I'm not married, and have no interest in a steady girlfriend (bad experiences in the past), so my own place just seemed to be a pointless expense. However, Stevens required a seperate phone numbers to contact me or my emergency contact. The only reason I can think for this is to get my cell phone number, which I do not give to trucking companies for any reason. I attempted to explain this in a civil manner, and the instructor attempted to treat me like a military recruit. I do not tolerate this, ever. So, I stood up, gathered my stuff (not the company paperwork, just my notebook and personal paperwork) and prepared to walk out the door. Yes, I was gonna leave. Unfortunately for me, another instructor caught me before I made it outside, and convinced me to stick around. I may never forgive him. So I sat the classes, and learned absolutely nothing. This was not expected. I barely had a year's experience total (don't ask) before I went to Stevens, and expected better instruction. After all, I had left the field in 2003, and the HOS had completely changed since then. It was a driver who was leaving Stevens over pay issues who explained the new HOS to me. After I passed my written tests (despite the information I recieved from the instructors) I got to go out and play with the trainer trucks. No, repeat no instruction from the instructors on how to perform the manuvers other than the blind side parallel park (the only backing manuver tested by Texas DPS). Just get out there and figure it out yourself. But don't hit anything. Hit something and you're OUT! Drive around the test course 5 or 6 times, cause yeah, that's gonna prepare you for actually driving out on the road, right? And the Pre-trip instruction? Hahaha! I'm from PA, and let me tell you, Stevens idea of a Pre-trip would get a driver jailed around here. Just an absolute joke. Definitely not worth the money. I have no idea how much the school costs, since it was a couple of years ago, and I didn't save any of the paperwork. I didn't bother to pay for the school, since I found the training to be seriously lacking, and they never came after me for the money. Didn't even put it on my credit report, surprisingly enough. I will say that their road training does look good on paper, IF you get a decent trainer. I was fortunate enough to get a decent trainer. Unfortunately for him, I got a better offer with a company I used to work for (Werner, who knew?) and left 3 weeks into road training. I gave my trainer as much notice as I could, and he was nice enough to arrange a load going through my home state so I could get home with minimal problems. I wasn't the first trainee to jump off of his truck. But I was the first to tell him I was leaving. He appreciated that. I've heard alot of complaints against the company from their drivers, usually concerning pay, and ******-sure won't go back. I'm hoping Werner shapes back up to what they were back when C.L. still ran the company.

I just had two of these idiots back into my trailer not once but three times the other night. I was asleep in the bunk when I was woken up by a slight movement of the truck. I got up and looked in the mirror to see a truck with their tail lights on against my trailer, then again slight movement of my truck. I slip my shoes on and in just shorts start heading towards the other truck. I get to the drivers door and bang on it, scaring the driver. I say "You can stop backing up now you are against my trailer". His reply was "Dude, I thought I could back farther". So then the guy in the passenger seat sits up and says "You must be backed into our stall". I was not even to the painted back line. So two drivers in the same truck and both are too lazy to get out and look. That is some solid training. Luckily these two clowns were bumping against the rubber dock bumpers of my flat.

alladin sane, the economy is bad. you will see people like counterfiter put up with more crap than usual to try to earn a living. the economy is bad, that makes the scam of stevens transport more successful at taking advantage of hard workers. no layoffs at stevens means managment and office workers like you(alladin sane) are there to force people to quit. after the contract is signed. you are a guys best friend and after the contract is signed; his worst enemy. good luck in hell stevens loser.