Maverick Transportation

Broland- His name is Scott K. He had 5 acceptances when he graduated. One was TMC. It was a tough decision but he went with Maverick and is so glad he did. After looking at all posts about different companies I have yet to find any bad comments except the ones from people who didn't get on. That says a lot about a company. Good Luck!

 

Wow it does sound like a really good company to work for thanks for the info everybody

 

Oh ok thanks hesgoneagain i think ima go ahead go with it, whats the home time look like?

 

Would love to get in at Maverick, but they won't hire anyone who has more than 18 months of unemployment in the past 36 months. The recruiter says it's a "stability issue". Well, I guess that makes sense if you've been a DRIVER who has been unemployed and looking for a job in the trucking industry.

But, I've been unemployed from a totally different industry for more than 18 months and am only now entering the trucking industry.

Don't quite understand why the fact that I've been unemployed and looking for a job in a completely different industry would say anything about my "stability" as a DRIVER.

Upper management high tech jobs are just not in abundance in the area where I live. Actually high tech jobs of any sort are not abundant in my area.

With 10.6% unemployment (and that's not counting the number of people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits and/or just gave up looking for work) in my area, and 8.6% nationwide, I'm not alone.

I guess Arkansas is Utopia and no one there is unemployed or has to change industries in order to find a job, huh? Must be nice.

Oh well, I've got offers from plenty of other good companies (including Maverick's competitors) who apparently don't make such broad judgements on the character of people just because they've been displaced from their industry and are entering the trucking industry for the first time.

What's that thing about "Judge not, lest ye be judged"? Apparently not a principle that Maverick holds, huh?

 

I dont agree with that policy either if you were not a driver already with prior experience. I believe some cases are being made in several states right now calling this discrimination because there are so many unemployed for long periods right now. Its not just Maverick or trucking in general,its many types of jobs now doing this.

 

The recruiter was very nice, and even stated before he told me that what he was about to tell me didn't make any sense to him at all either, but it is "Maverick policy".

Bottom line, I became unemployed not by choice. And I haven't remained unemployed by choice. My unemployment benefits ran out in Feb of this year and I spent everyday of my unemployment period looking for a job. Trust me, I wanted a job.

And then for some representative of a company to start telling me how long I've been unemployed, AS IF I DIDN'T KNOW, and wasn't reminded of it every time I had to find a way to pay a bill or buy food!

And for him to tell me that it is a "stability issue" for his company as if I were some derelict, homeless by choice or something, was EXTREMELY INSULTING.

While I respect every company's right to establish their own policies and hiring practices, I was very disappointed in a company with the reputation of Maverick making such broad stereotypes and/or assumptions about someone just because they were unfortunate enough to have been unemployed for more than 18 months over the past 3 years.

Like I said, had I been a driver who lost his job and hasn't found another one, perhaps that might raise a flag about my "stability", attitude or competency in this industry, but I'm just starting a new career, in an industry that I have never worked in before.

BTW, I haven't gotten and then been dismissed from multiple jobs during the past 3 years. So, I haven't been "job hopping" or anything like that. I lost my last job and have been unemployed for more than 18 consecutive months!

So, the fact that I've been unemployed for more than 18 months is completely irrelevant and is in no way a valid indicator for how I might perform as a Maverick DRIVER!

It's just very disappointing and seems to indicate a lack of intelligence on their part to so broadly stereotype people like that; particularly when those people are entering the industry for the first time.

Maybe this is just God's way of trying to keep me from working for stupid people, who knows!!

Oh well. At least I won't have to spend that time in the Utopia that is Arkansas; the place that even Mississippi thanks God for!!

 

Hopefully they see the error of that policy sooner rather than later. A company my friend drives for used to be the same way but now I think they take it on a casr by case deal.

 

I hope so too. I would have had no problem if they had told me that there was some criteria that I didn't meet as an individual.

But to reject people based on such a ridiculous stereotype does nothing but make them look stupid for having such an irrelevant policy.

 

Hmm, I was unemployed for almost 10 months. Maverick wanted every day filled in with income or training with not more than a two week gap. My unemployment filled in most of the pay gap and the CDL school filled in the rest. I made all my records available and faxed them in. It was pretty painless. Maverick would even have taken the weekly worksheet documents the state requires to verify I was searching for a job every week. Heck, if I would have been taking care of a sick family member, I believe they would have taken it as long as I could prove it.

There's nothing discriminatory about using a job history as a factor in hiring. And, yes, good people can fall through the cracks when using data-mining and statistics to determine hireability (is that even a word?).

You were high tech upper management. You sold yourself to get there and you need to sell yourself again to get what you want. Maverick gets many times more applications than it can possibly accept. Heck, when I was accepted, the waiting list was twelve weeks long!!! I waited two because I was ready at a moment's notice to get on a bus and sure enough, the recruiters were going through the waiting list to find a last minute replacement and I was one of the last people down a long list. Everyone in front of me was not ready, was waiting for the summer to end, the kids to go back into school, the homecoming, fall festivals, etc. Their loss, my gain.

Maverick isn't the end all solution to your problem and it seems like you have good offers. Take them and enjoy the FACT that quality companies DO want you.

 

You seem to have missed the difference between your situation and mine. You were unemployed for 10 MONTHS, and I have been for more than 18 MONTHS IN THE LAST 36 -- that is their criteria.

I did not have the opportunity to offer up any documentation, letters of reference, or anything else as I was rejected before they ever spoke the first word to me or I to them.

You're right, the "unemployed" are not a legally protected class like race, gender, age, etc., at least not YET.

"Hireability" is not a word, but "hirability" is!

Again, I didn't have the opportunity to sell myself as I was rejected before they even spoke to me. I had no problem selling myself in my previous positions. And had I not moved back to the "boonies" to care for an aging mother, I'm sure that I would still be managing $500M products/product lines, etc. and making the big bucks. But in Maverick's eyes, I'm too "unstable" to drive one of their trucks? So, companies like IBM entrusted me to manage a $554M chuck of their business, but Maverick thinks I lack the "stability" to drive for them based on one extended period of unemployment just because of the fact that it exceeds 18 months in the past 36?

You're absolutely right. Thanks for the reassuring words. I didn't apply to any BFI companies and I've gotten invitations to orientation to all of the ones that I most wanted to drive for (I think two more are coming tomorrow as we've been playing phone tag all day), with the exception of Maverick.

Not to brag, but I've excelled in every position I've ever held for the past 30 years, from the US Air Force forward to my civilian career. I don't half-##### ANYTHING and I'm always looking for ways to increase my performance and provide more value to my employer.

I have no doubt that will continue into my "trucking career" and some company will benefit from that drive (no pun intended) and determination, it just won't be Maverick. I'm fine with that, and I'm sure that they are too.

I just think that it's stupid to not consider someone who's just entering the industry based on the period of unemployment criteria that they're using.

By their own criteria, it would have been okay if I'd have had gone through 3-4 employers in the past 36 months, so long as I wasn't unemployed for more than 18 months of that period.

Which person would you rather hire; one who jumps from job to job frequently or someone who's been unemployed for one long stretch and really needs/wants a job and would probably be more apt to be dedicated to keeping it once he/she has it?

Bottom line, their unemployment period policy just doesn't "pass the smart guy test."

Again, thanks for the kind words and encouragement. I know that I'll get a job with a good company and I hope to see you out on the road someday!