Stevens Transport aviary

Stevens' training time is fairly set in stone. There are some exceptions, but they mostly involve drivers with a reasonable amount of verfiable driving experience.
All candidates are hired with the same caveat: 35 days of O-1 with mountains, regions and docks. 21 days of O-2 time.
Now if you can show you don't need all that time, the director of training may truncate the requirements. It will involve your verifiable history and a driving test.
I do know of a couple drivers that came aboard that did a shortened version.
I came aboard with two years off, but many years of verifiable experience. I was required to do the entire training session.
Does that help?

 

It does and thanks. I got my CDL in the 90's but the last commercial vehicles I drove were commercial buses in 2009 before I went overseas. For me, I'm looking to cut a week or two. I'm looking at the three week school then O-1 and 2.

 

I got my cdl in 90 and drove for about 9 yrs before getting an it job. Was layed off at the end of '09 and wound up back driving a few months later. All the companies I talked to (even those I had worked for in the past) wanted me to go back through a school for a refresher course. I went through Stevens school and then had to do the full training regimen. It was funny having 4 total trainers (2 took time off so got split on o1 & o2) and only 1 had more driving exp than I did

The training at Stevens tends to be overkill for anyone with some exp driving. But its good for new drivers. If you can get a year in with Stevens, there are plenty of companies who would eagerly hire you

 

When I was a trainer an experienced driver w/o recent experience would be given a driving test to determine if they needed the school time. If you can pass the employment driving test you go straight to ORT I.

 

Thanks guys for the responses. I guess all I can say is I'll have to wait and see. I agree that for new(first time drivers), this is a great program, it would seem it could be tweeked a bit for those without recent experience.

 

Got my heavy as* load to carneys point NJ. Only 25 miles to go in the morning for an 0800 appt. Like usual could not get repowered to another load even though i was more than a day ahead. And the receiver would not take it a day early. The worst part is i talked to 2 drivers at breezewood pa last night who both were being repowered, one going into maryland for the am and the other going to chicago. Oh well i will never understand.

 

had my heaviest load this past week, empty scale weight to to loaded scale was 45,000lbs. it did put me over gross by 100lbs but rolled with it anyway. that's with a T2000

 

Delivered my 4 drop load in St Louis, now heading to Champaign to pick up a Kraft load headed to Ft Worth for a drop tomorrow afternoon. This is the fourth load in a row...800+ miles overnight.
Told them we can't make the 1600 delivery tomorrow even with our load time at 2300 tonight.
"Pick it up anyway.We'll figure out what to do with it later"
I'll run until 0300, then we'll shut down for 8 hrs. Need some undisturbed sleep.
But at least there's no snow!

 

Yet.

 

2,944 miles my first week solo. Wish that I had more hours our would be in the 3,300's... :/