Stevens Transport aviary

Hey Guys and Gals!
If your in the Alliance leasing and you need tires do you have to buy retreads or can you purchase new tires instead without the retread. We have been studying this approach on our coach buses and it is much better to have new tires than retreads. The tires last so much longer.

I have been reading most of the Stevens threads and have not seen anywhere where you mention your reefer trailers not even once. Do you have to clean them out after every load or is it done for you. I am certainly not afraid of a little work I was just wondering.
Do they provide training for the reefers as well, I have never pulled a reefer before.

 

On Alliance we dont have to buy retreads. We can buy regular tires which is what I do.

They do train you on the reefer. And Stevens will pay for you to go to a trailer washout and get it washed out if its needed, but there are times where it just needs sweeping and you can just do that yourself.

 

Thanks again Corporal it seems I am following you around on this forum (Not on purpose LOL) I am very glad I found this truckers forum it has helped guide me to my career decisions. Maybe there is a little too much information on here, it gives me a headache reading all the negativity on here, but I guess it is needed by somebody. I am looking forward to signing on with Stevens and only wish the school was a bit faster but I can wait. I chose the 8 weekends of training instead of the 4 weeks straight so I could still work during the week and get paid. I have already given my notice to my current job. I gave them a 2 month plus notice and they were cool with it but will hate to see me go. I have always left any job on good terms in case I need to come back it wouldn't be a problem. They will let me park the truck on their lot when I need to, just have to secure the permission with Stevens.

Thanks to all the Stevens drivers in here I have been reading your posts and letting it all sink in. I look forward to meeting you all someday out on the road. Once I get on the road I will not be on here much. It's gonna take me awhile to get a laptop with wifi or something like that.

 

Super singles are just as safe as your steer tires. But the axle, wheel off set and wheels berrings must be specked for super singles. Stevens just threw them on some 660s and they wore the edges out quickly. And stevens policy of aligning a truck with a right pull is very hard on tires. Then add in the fuel department mandating the wrong air pressure and disaster struck, and struck...

 

I'm back to the directionally challenged dispatch group.
Think I have to tell them not to send me west.
Emptied in Cheyenne, was asked to repower a unit in Laramie. Broke my split sleeper time and headed on down...other truck headed to Cheyenne.
Finally hooked up, but what would have been 10:28 in drive time, was whittled down to a bit over 5 hours.
So I can't make OT delivery for this load to Champaign, thurs AM.
Checking map....can't find Idaho around Illinois....hmmmmm.
Guess I'll call my wife and tell her we best move...

I found another thing to hate about his QC....bringing it back to life.
Turn on the key in the AM to do my check call and it comes to life, but if I wait too long (5 minutes) it goes back to sleep.
And if I am using it when it decides it's sleepy, it shuts down anyway.

Well it's June 6th.
Another year gone by.
40 years ago today, I climbed up into the cab of a 1968 Freightliner COE and began my trucking career.
And just to show you how things have changed...I got my permit, license and pulled my first load from Portland to Salt Lake on that same day.

 

I drove a KW100 for a few weeks and gained a whole new respect for the drivers running OTR in a Cabover.
Congrats on the milestone and it proves one thing about Emul . . . . . . . He's OLD.

 

How are they just as safe as your steers? I found them to be overyly slippery in any kind of weather. Rain, snow whatever.

 

i have those on the pete and havent noticed them being slippery on wet pavement anymore then duals i have noticed uneven edge wear though. showed the tire boss and was told they are good till i get back to dallas lol

 

I know you hate super singles. They do flex more than duals and that leads to the perception they are slipping. Simple physics. If stevens would purchase the correct offset rims I would put them on my tractor now. But not the graytechs, michilans please.

 

Hey emu, they both start with I and are both norrh of dallas. Close enough for dispatch. To make the QC actually stay on, I found you have to actually start the truck. Then it stays on hours. Dropped last night in north platte, dispatched to dakota city, and as I was doing my post trip get the message my load is ready. Only 30 hours before the dld. So grab a bite and get on down the road. Now will mother get upset if I edit out that bobtail post trip, and complete my post trip later?