Stevens transport

That's how it was with me. 6-8 weeks out. But that's how you make the big bucks in this industry.

 

I'm trying to think of a few names that worked there when I was with Stevens that might still be there. Tony Thigpen, Larry Pollard, Danny Doak and Bill Montgomery come to mind. I'd be shocked if Bill was still there, he was an old man when I was on the trainee team fleet he managed.

 

Bill retired last month.
Danny is still there.
Jeremy Dilgy, Jonathan (produce), Smokie, just to name a few.

 

####, those names bring up some memories.

Have to ask Danny if he remembers routing a driver from Chicago to Denver around every scale with a load that was 2,000lbs over gross and who barely missed being pinched at the Nebraska/Colorado state line at a porable scale set up by the Nebraska DOT but they were too busy with bullracks and waved him on by!

I remember reporting the overweight load to night dispatch when I scaled out at the old Bolingbrook, IL truckstop and them telling me to take off fuel and I was like, yeah, how do you get rid of 2,000 lbs worth of fuel?

That truck sure rode smooth though.

 

then why did a recruiter tell me i had to make 10,000 a year to get into school through stevens?

 

Minimum requirements of Stevens. Figure if you haven't made $200 per week, you probably aren't going to stick it thru.
Now if you're been on unemployment, or full time student, they'll waive that requirement.

 

It kills me where some people get there info on here.

I was reading a post on here I think it was page 1 or 2 where this dude said it doesn't matter how long you have drove before if you haven't drove in 2 months you have to take a refresher course again. Lol
Thats the craziest thing I have heard on here ever. Wow

That dude really need to do his homework

 

but that is stevens policy. refresher course required for anybody who has not driven currently. He did his homework.
Even Emusified had to do a refresher.

 

Yea that's probably true but its not 2 months or even 6 months out of not driving. I know 3 guys who are currently out with a trainer, well one of them is in grad phase now. But they got there cdl from a school and waited over 6 months before applying with stevens and they went straight into orientation. They didn't have to do a refresher. That probably was there policy a few years ago.

 

There are hundreds, if not thousands of people standing around with a CDL that want to work.
Companies can afford to be fussy.
There's no shortage of driver wanna bes.