Stevens Transport aviary

Hello all hope each of you are having a great Turkey-day be safe on the road watch the four wheelers. I do have a question can any one give me the dimensions of the mattress space is it a twin long or is it smaller. Thanks I know it is a crazy question just looking to see if i can order a special mattress for the truck for better comfort. Keep it between the lines watch for tryptophan drunk drivers and the regular drunks and keep the shinny side up.

 

Hey Emulsified, hubby and I were just catching up on the Aviary postings and saw this. Hubby will be completing his 4th year in April as well. His hire date is 4/2, you all must have been in Orientation close to the same time.

 

It's a Long Twin (or Twin Long?)
88" instead of 80"

 

My ID badge says I was one week later.

 

Thought I'd miss most of the weather, but here I am swimming in the mid valley of California.
Think I need some water wings.
Almost loaded. Last pick.
Then off to Cheyenne.
Let's see..warm and wet or cold and dry...
decisions, decisions, decisions.

 

Smokr. First, thanks for all the info. I am thinking about attending(and paying myself) to attend an accredited truck training school here in Colorado and then trying to join Stevens. I assume I will attend there orientation training and work out of their Dallas office for some time. Is that for the whole year? Do I need to get a Texas DL even to do that? During their training I thought I could work from my home state, Colorado. Am I drastically uninformed? I plan on attending a "Hiring Event" in Aurora Colorado on the 30th. The way I understand it is they, Stevens, are somehow affiliated with a driver training school near Denver, in Keenesburg. I would attend this school here then hire on with Stevens, go to Dallas for my "learning the Stevens way", with their trainers. Then I can work out of Grand Junction with my truck being here. Does that make any sense to you? As I said, I am attending this "Hiring Event" next Wednesday. I found out about this event on the Stevens site, under the "Hiring Events" tab on page http://www.stevenstransport.com/data/career.php What do you think?

 

Stevens only has one terminal, the one in Dallas. You live where you want and "work out of their Dallas office" while you work for Stevens, but that's not at all important. And if you do not hold a CDL, you will have to take and pass all the Texas tests, including the permit--Texas does not transfer any other state's CDL permits. Then you get routed back through your home state to convert the CDL.

 

Since you live in colorado and you will attend the school in colorado you will test in colorado and receive your CDL from colorado. Then you will attend orientation in dallas and go out for your training program of 5 weeks for the first phase and then O2 and 3 to 4 weeks for phase 2.

Stevens has one yard/terminal dallas TX and that is where you work from . Does not matter where home is.

 

Made it across windy WY today. That was a chore. And it was snowing on the 3 sisters. Will be in boise sat. To wait until mon 7am to deliver. Then off to ontario to pick up and down to san antonio TX.

 

I was thinking about a comment made in another thread... well what else is there to do when fighting a 40 mpg head wind....

pulls milk crate over, steps up.

Doing a good vehicle inspection each day is part of the job. It is policy, and a federal law. The comment that got me thinking was that this guy never gets under the truck, and that is okay because nobody else does. So this violates stevens policy, and federal law, not once but twice... first did not do an inspection of the vehicle, and second falsely stating on the log that he did.

Stevens has many policies, many that seem asinine, but have all been written for the reason above... a driver did not do their job correctly because... and screwed up even more later in the day.

Now do I want to depend on *luck* to get me safely to my next destination, or do I want to depend on me doing my job correctly every time to get me safely to my destination? I choose me. I do not ever want that day to come where I am saying, " I did not do that because...."

Steps of milk crate, exits stage left