Maverick Hometime Question

Sorry, don't know anything about Maverick - just noticed your from Youngstown - your about 1/2 hour from me!!! I live north of there - anyway my soontobe ex works for Smith (at least I think he still does) - just wanted to say Hi to a fellow northeast Ohio person!!

 

yes.....short !!!...thats what they want...short. It's a typical day and a half.

I can usually squeeze in late Friday night, rarely in the afternoon...then out agian Sunday evening. they do a good job of every weekend though and I can usually stop in during the week. I live on I-40 about a mile from the truck stop though...

They have their up and downs...check out TMC also...just sayin'...research your options. I swore up and down to my buddy he could get on with Mav. He lives across the street from me, nothing on his DMV...no accidents, or tickets..ever & he's my age (early 30's)!!! how impecable is that !! plus he has only worked for two companies his whole life (well the first was the Navy)..then only one other when he got out of service...they turned down his application and said he had "inconsistent work history"...it doesn't get more consistent than 2 jobs in 11 years and one was a military contract and the other a gov't contract job too !!!! I'm still shocked they said no. He called me today with the news. I'm hearing more stories like that. I didn't think they were true. I have to believe it now. I swear they are not looking for career drivers. It sounds like they want to hire crappy people that will quit early...like the money is in their CDL school. A lot of companies do that..they have revenue in the students that decide "this isn't for me" and get stuck with that $5000 bill...

Just watch out for it. I have refered some great people that I know and Mav turns them down. I thought maybe it was me, so they stopped mentioing my name, but some of the other guys here are saying the same thing.

Little weird things like that are starting to take place..even the guys who have been here a long time are telling me that. We have our eyes open now too....Mav may become a "Swift"

 

I have no complaints with them. I get in almost every weekend. I had 1 weekend when I stayed out, but the next weekend I had even more hometime. Daughter had surgery and they got me in for it. I usually get in on friday around 3 or 4pm and leave sunday, but I could leave later, but I like to get to my first drop on monday 10 hours before I unload so I can sleep, unload and run again without waiting for 10 hrs to get dispatched. That is how I make my money. Planning well on how to max my check.
I have got in on a thursday and left on a sunday. It varies. This weekend was short because I did not get in till midnite friday nite and I will leave sunday evening, but that is the 1st time I have been home for that short of time.

I make good money and drive nice equpment and see home often. Keep in mind home on weekends to a trucking company usually means 34 hours at home, so if you get a company that gets you home more consider it a blessing. Some companies leave their drivers out 3 -5 weeks and get a day off for each week.

 

Maverick has a great reputation. They can just be picky with their employees. That is all I am saying...and lately the "picky" has been spreading to everything and they're being to pop more of the "over-look" items....A Lot of Ooooppps !!

Check out Boyd Bros. Trucking also. They have a great reputation too and little smaller than Mav. Mmaybe even "Saia" and "Bennett International Group Inc." Bennett treats their Company Drivers like O/O's ...no kidding...pick your schedule, schedule it with the broker..be home whenever you want...Bennett needs good drivers, maybe one yr OTR...That is what I am waiting on. Have to be able to get a Gov't security clearance, which I already have. Apply now at Bennett if he likes it, (it takes 6 months to get the clearancesommetimes).

Tell him to pick up those small mags at the Pilot...that's what I did when I started. The I just surfed the internet every time I had to shut down and the stop had internet access. I built a Microsoft spead sheet and weighed everything right there in front of me. there a lot of great commpanies that not a lot of people don;t know about.

Good luck...oh, and Crete, whic is Hunt for flatbedders...I'd say youo are better off at Mav....and Mav is actually pretty good. Can't complain so far...just the little things but that may just be me.

 

Say are these companies close to Ashtabula ?? I'm thinking of moving back there ( Daughter & family lives in that area) Thanks

 

I have been thinking about Path myself. I am 30 min from there main Terminal, I am in Jamestown NY.

A few ppl I drove with at local companys worked for them quite a few years ago. At that point they were giving them all the miles they could do in 5 days plus some. Most of these guys were running mulitple log books. The company did not say anything about it at the time, but I hear that they would "probibly" not allow that now. I have yet to talk to any of there current drivers to find out if this is the case.

My wife wants me to go with them bad. She is tired of the 3 to 4 days a month that I was getting for a while there. Lately though my dispatcher is starting to route me thru home when I could use a reset. That is what I am doing now. Every other week she is getting me home for a day or so, as long as I keep getting the deliverys to the recievers on time she is great about it.

I will stay where I am till at least January, and probibly till march or so. That way I get allot more time over the road in all conditions, and not up in the north east where I live every week or so. I want to break into the major snow driving slowly. I have done allot of it in straight trucks plowing and even pouring concrete in the snow, but it is not something that I want to plan on doing on a weekly basis on a combination truck. At least for now.

I will be watching for these responces as well though. Since I am in the same region as you are and looking for the same situation.