Stevens Transport aviary

well we are stuck in the 'snowicane' in NY state near PA. Strong winds and freezing sleet/rain and forecast of a couple inches of snow this afternoon and overnight. We alerted dispatch and FM on the QC and got the message back 'thanks be safe' and a new delivery time on Tuesday instead of Sunday. No hassle, no ######## to keep rolling, no pressure. Again. Not the first time bad weather had me not wanting to drive and got a simple OK and changed appointment time. Few companies do it this way. Most pressure you to drive even in blizzards and worse. As for loan you pay $25 a week for 3 years unless you request larger deduction or cut them checks to pay sooner. During that time if you are TAKING HOME AFTER TAX only 12K you are a lazy worthless bum. Estimating my income pre-tax based on starting mleage pay and miles I drive each week for last month I would NET about $1,500 a month, and that is not full solo miles. So figure better than $25,000 first year NET. Right about $27,700 net. Year one. and that doesn't count the raises at 3 and 6 months. Or driving full mileage, that's using student mileage of 450 a day instead of about 600 or more you can do once out on your own.

 

Here's a box of tissues and a box of crackers to go with that wine (whine) Maybe you should try the basket weaving industry.

 

LOL I smell a troll. But I'll bait the hook anyway since I'm bored at the moment.

basket weaving is a step up from workin at a radio station
As if you'd have a clue of either. I am seriously doubting you've ever so much as seen a transom in person, let alone was a surveyor making 81K a year, solely judging by your inability to use grammar or to capitalize. If you were, then that only proves that any low-grade moron can do that job adequately and is grossly overpaid for it.

your 44 years old and went from yo mamas basement to the passenger seat of a truck
Her house didn't have a basement, it was a ranch-style home, and yes I am 44 and I am in the passenger seat about half the time, but I'm in that driver's seat the other half - and I've wanted to be there for a long time.

So I've lived both of the two dreams I've had for professions - Darned good track record if you ask me, and I took care of my dying parents until their final days.
I'm happy and proud of that, and glad of where I am.

I chose Stevens after researching every training company and school I could find. I spent months eliminating them using as many criteria as I could. Stevens won out for it's recognized industry leading training and superior equipment. I know that sounds like a shill spewing pablum, but it's just plain true. You get almost three months of training; training that is recognized as outstanding even by its competitors. Multiple companies actively recruit Stevens drivers. We get recruitment pamphlets and business cards just parking in truckstops. Werner, Knight, USXpress and C.R. England still call and\or email me weekly offering me higher pay and promises I doubt they can live up to try to lure me away, and my training isn't even finished.
Yes, Stevens hassled me about the last three years of employment, and it was a stupid pain in the ###, but that is my biggest gripe so far,nd I'm happy.
I may stay in trucking for the rest of my working days, or I may move on to something else in a year or two, but I've wanted to drive these rigs since I was a kid, and that desire is still present over thirty years later, so I'm doing it. And not just because I lost a job I claim to have had and can't find something else.
And don't denigrate my mother; she gave everything she had to raise sons who treated others with decency until they proved themselves worthy of being beaten down, and she gave us the guts to do the beating down, too. Judging by your attitude and words, your mother was too busy smoking pot and turning tricks to raise you properly or even see to it that you went to school.
So take your whinny butt off to Burger King or Taco Bell and shut the heck up until I give you my lunch order. And you better not forget to ask me if I want fries or cinnamon crisps with my order!
Smokr now totally ignores bigtex59 who apparently chose his name to compensate for certain personal shortcomings.