Heading For Little Rock! Maverick

Thats true!! maverick is really professional about that!!

 

if you are under a load and not getting home for the weekend, as long as you didn't ask to go out to where the load is sending you, you get paid to 800 miles.

For example: You are dispatched on a load that hangs you out over the weekend, total paid miles on the load is 567, you will get paid 800 miles for it.

Maverick took it away as a cost cutting measure when the recession began. But as a shock to the naysayers out there that boasted, "We'll never see it again", once you get your foot out of your mouth, what do you have to say now?

Totally unrelated topic but should be addressed and corrected posted here because a lot of drivers new to maverick post their experiences once assigned to a driver trainer in this thread:

There is evidently a driver trainer out there that does not let his students drive the truck at all. THAT'S BULLSHIRT!!!!. One of my prior students was at ghent and one of the aforementioned trainers students asked my student to back the trailer up for him because he was not allowed by his instructor to drive the truck at all, EVER for the entire time he was in the truck with his instructor.

I dont know if it was the same driver, but another driver i know was told the same thing by a new driver and also asked to back the truck into the loading dock.

So if that instructor happens to read this, you might as well resign from the training program and as a matter of fact, start looking for another job. You know you are wrong, yet you want to have someone ride along with you for 21 days or more then SIGN YOUR NAME on papers that say they are good to be cut loose and get their own truck?!? . . .WTF?!?

As driving instructors, we have a responsibility, i consider it a duty to teach Maverick's new drivers the proper way of doing things. To give them all the tools necessary to be successful at Maverick and to keep Maverick in business

You sir are a modern day slave driver and should be ashamed of yourself. But of course you dont care. You dont care about the future of Maverick, you dont care about your family that one of your students could possibly run off the road, you dont care about me or my family or anyone else's that is driving out there either. You are a lazy person that simply wants to be a driving instructor so you can have someone help you secure, tarp, whatever and get paid extra for not doing what you are supposed to do.
Flatbedding isn't for everyone and training new drivers isnt either. If you don't want to do it right, why do it at all?

If any new drivers happened to have the aforementioned slavedriver as their driving instructor, i can understand why you didn't say anything because you were like me when i first started, you needed work and would suffer through anything in order to get your own truck. I was fortunate enough to have one of the best instructors I've ever met as my driver trainer, Papa Bear S.L. If you have evaluated out and need to learn to back up or drive forward or anything for that matter, contact the training department and let them know, a couple hours backing practice on the nlr yard may be all you need to make things click and to teach you to be a true Professional Maverick driver.

Thanks for your time and consideration

sarge

 

Hey guys. I have a dilemma that I'm not sure of what to do so I'm asking current divers for Maverick of their honest opinion. I was approved to start last Fall at Maverick and my wife became sick and ended up having major surgery so I had to postpone starting to be there for her. Since then I've been working for a major automotive manufacturer in my area and have great benefits but the job is literally boring me to death. My wife is fine now and I've never one day not thought about driving for Maverick. I make $16 hourly but really am unhappy there. Should I go ahead and pursue my dream of driving or stay where I'm at given the economy now or will I be able to get good miles and make good money? I live in Northeast MS so I'm not sure what the freight lanes are like through here although I see a lot of Maverick trucks on my my way to and from work every day. I value your opinions, but please just be honest because this is a major life changing event for me and my wife. Thanks and be safe out there.

 

in my honest opinion, stay where your at. The trucking industry is not all it's cracked up to be.

 

I believe I met that "instructor" in Bennettsville a while back. I advised the student to talk to someone in Little Rock, and the "instructor" was not doing him any favors by doing all the driving, securing and tarping... and that he would be screwed when he was assigned his own truck because he had no actual hands on experience during his "training". ( if he even made it out of eval's )

in hindsight, I should have made a #### call, I'll not make that mistake again.

 

Lanuage children, lanuage...

And thank you for that wonderful output on heading to little rock

 

Yea I remember that trainer in Bennettsville, SC. I remember what he looks like, but didn't get his truck number. I haven't saw him since then though. He didn't do any securing on that load. As I recall his instructor did it all as he watched standing on top and walking around the load. When I was with my instructor, I did all the driving after the first 2 days and I had to back up. I'm glad he made me back up too.

For the driver who asked for advice: Well I haven't been doing this as long as these other guys, but from my experience, I would stay where I am at. If something is wrong at home, you can try to take care of it, but you will be doing it on the phone and not in person. Whatever is wrong (unless it's an emergency) will have to wait until you get home for the weekend. To go along with what Jim said. I would rather be bored at home than be bored driving for 11hrs or sitting at a shipper/consignee waiting HOURS (Insteel Wire in Gallatin, TN, I sit there from 11am to almost 5pm before they got me loaded) to get loaded or unloaded.

Have a good and safe week everyone! I'm headed to NY in the morning.