Maverick .... from a wife's perspective

I work for maverick I run a Canadian dedicated and get $900 a week

been with maverick sense Oct of last year

 

Thanks for your response. If I may ask you a few more questions, where do your loads take you to, in Canada ? Where do these loads originate from ? What kind of hometime do you get ? Thanks, once again.

 

I pick up steel coils in Detroit MI and take to Toronto Canada then reload in Toronto with steel slabs back to Detroit.

I make it home 1-2 nights per week and every weekend, sense Oct I have only worked 1 saturday

hope this helps

 

Wow.. That's great looking paychecks right there.. My dad worked here back in 00.. When the company trucks were like 75 and l/o were 78.. Don't quote me on the when.. I'm just curious.. How hard is it to get hired at maverick.. I live in north central/east. Arkansas.. Bout 90 miles north of little rock..

I've heard so many great things about maverick.. That ill be at my year otr in 2 months.. And I really wanna come over here.. Do they do the body mass thing here? Cause I'm 6'2 and 350.. I'm outta shape.. But can change that.. Also.. Do they allow passangers?

 

hey tarps,
can you answer a question for me. i know for every 10 hours you spend driving you have to spend 11 hours not driving. How is the 14 hours factored in that I keep hearing redcoats wife talking about? I thought you drove for 10, took 11 off and then drive another 10. Is the 14 hour a so called work day? Just trying to learn as much as I can before starting school. Thanks for reading this and hope to meet you on the road soon.

-newtrucker10

 

I can answer that. It is 11 hours driving, three hours on duty, and 10 hours in the sleeper berth. Hope this helps. If not use the search function on logging and you will come up with various threads that explains it all.

KH

 

The HOS, (hours of service) can be very confusing to a new driver and get them in trouble with DOT in a heartbeat so hope this helps.. Split sleeper berth or "split logging" DONT DO IT UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. I wont even attempt to explain it.

As for an explanation of 11/14:

once your workday begins, (pretrip inspection) you are allowed to drive a maximum of 11 hours of your 14 hour workday, before you have to take a 10 hour break before driving again. ie if you start your day at 6am, your 14 hours ends at 8pm. So if all you are going to do that day is drive, your driving would have to end at 515 pm on your log (6-615am pretrip inspection on line 4. 615am--515pm driving on line 3) flag a post trip inspection in the remarks section. Now you have to log a 10 hour break before you are allowed to drive again.

 

For a young guy like you that may seem like great pay, but its peanuts for working 70 hrs a week, and living in a truck. I bet maverick paid better then that back in the 70"s before truck driver pay took a nose dive. My hats off to redcoat and all you hard working Maverick drivers.