Stevens Transport

in my opinion companies who are running these schools should be barred from this crap. they are charging the students big $$ and on top of that collecting tax $$ for training you after you finish there school. talk about double dipping at it's worst. The worst part about it is they dont even train anyone worth a #### much less have anyone qualified to be a trainer these days!!

 

Ok. so you are gonna put a trainee in your $150,000 tractor trailer rig, are you gonna rely on another company to train them? Or are you going to make sure they follow your rules and ways of operation? Sure Mr Stevens has found a profitable business for himself and as far as I can see no one is tied to the #### steering wheel and forced to go there. I don't, and have never driven for Stevens but everyone has a choice and because some drivers don't like taking personal responsibility all we here is pissing and moaning about the big bad company. Every driver chooses to go there, so quit with the poor poor me.

 

I agree but someone needs to put a stop to this teaming operation training programs. That doesn't teach the students nothing. That's why there r so many issue with backing etc in places today. The students aren't being taught properly how to operate a truck.

 

Exactly the truth!

How much was the driver learning sitting in the truck for the weekend while the driver went home.

NOTHING!

Trainer probably took the keys too!

 

More to this story than is being told, as always...

I had a dedicated trainer also... ft worth to chicago and back. Was I going to get the requirements to complete training, NO... First week I did get lots of backing, dropping and hooking practice. Second week same thing, with night driving. QC message to training started on the 9th day, will need to change trainers to get regions, and mountains... end of two weeks, at yard, switch trainers, 3 1/2 weeks later, all requirements met. I did not wait for Stevens to get me my training, I used the tools available to me to get the required goals.

Part of the training, will you only use the phone? will you use the QC? Will you contact the proper person, or ask to be directed to the proper person? Will you wait for someone else to correct a problem for you, or will you be proactive, and start communicating early and often?

The students who take an active role in their training are the ones who succeed. Those who expect everything to spoon fed to them, will fail.

 

The Gov't says once you pass a test that you're good to drive a truck.......there is no graduated system. Why work for these companies?

If companies are so scared to let drivers go on their own then why aren't they lobbying the Gov't to tighten the reigns on who gets a license?

Simply because they make a tremendous amount of money by running their own driver mills and then forcing drivers to run team. These companies are making a good deal of money off of this setup and are monopolising the pool of new drivers.
Companies say "you need experience". Drivers buy into it by telling newbies "go work for a big carrier". Thus completing the cycle and reiterating the philosophy contributing to big carriers and their attempt to monopolise the new driver market.

Soon drivers all over will be forced into team operations if they want into trucking and learning how to drive competantly will be ranked far below delivering on time.

This practice only contributes to driver fatigue/incompetance and should be stopped.

 

exactly,couldn't be stated better!!

 

?????? Where do you get this from?

 

Tradup, put the blame where it actually belongs... government regulations, insurance companies, and lawyers who sue over everything.

Your insurance company won't let you put someone in your truck without one heafty fee increase. Yes the trucking industry has changed since you started, get over it, or do something about it, by training yourself.

 

Im in training at Stevens myself. Its not bad like some of you try to make it out to be. There are some very good trainers out there. I have one. 13 days into training and I have done 2 major mountains without a Jake, and 2 with a jake. I have backed into a dock in the North East and in several other places and have driven over 4800 miles.

Im sitting overnight tonight at a drop yard. Big Deal lol. Its part of trucking. And we dont really run "as a team" as you say. Usually when Im driving, he is up and watching what Im doing and giving me pointers. When were just rolling dont Interstate sometimes he will take a nap, a drive a little while after I stop.But its not really true team driving like your making it out to be. Stevens evens limits the ammount of hours a training truck can run so that it cant be run like that.

Overall my training experiance has been a possitive one. I do believe that the training pay should be more, but hey, I signed up knowing what the pay was, so I cant complain. Its better than sitting on my ### at home on unemployment.