Stevens Transport - Dallas, Tx.

It should scare you. They suck and many of their drivers shouldn't be on the road. Not to say a lot of others don't have the same problem. But they revel in it. The worse the economy the more they prosper. Desperate people will turn to these rats as well as CRE, Schneider, CRST, others.

 

Thats your opinion ... and it sucks.
Stevens is one of the best training companies out here.

 

They are not getting .17 cpm, good grief. I thought you said you have been doing this for awhile?
What they are referring to is that as a team they make .34 cpm, or in other words .17 cpm for ALL miles of the truck. Of course they dont drive ALL the miles, its split with the team driver.

 

From the looks of things lately I guess Stevens is hiring anybody they can get to hold the steering wheel. If I dont see one of them holding me up then they are flipped over in the ditch. You get what you pay for in this industry.

 

Please clarify your statement.
Just how do they hold you up?
And I dare say, you will see more Yellow/Roadway, FedEx, and other such freight haulers in the ditch than Stevens.
Granted Stevens has more minor incidents, but with the number of trucks they run, you will see them more often than a 10 truck outfit.

 

Are you allowed to take meds for High b/p?

 

Yes you are, you can't get a medical card without them if you have HBP.

 

Why did you leave Stevens?

Awesome, Skullitor. I wonder....?

 

I went to Stevens right out of road master CDL license school. I say school cause they barely taught us how to drive. we were told now that we had a CDL our training companies would do the rest. Recruiters from Werner, Stevens and MCT came in to talk to us. we were almost forced by road master to submit our applications to one of them for placement, after all what else were we there or if not getting a job. I liked what the Stevens salesman had to say. not knowing much about researching these things I took what he said with a grain of salt. until I arrived in Dallas! the crappy hotel Stevens put us up in was a joke. we were told we would get 3 meals a day, well the hotel offered us cereal with no milk and coffee, that was their continental breakfast. then the shuttle to their yard was a very long wait to get 48 plus newbies half hour trip each way 8 or 9 at. time. very long days at orientation, we were all in the same boat, no experience driving tractor trailers at all. after finishing orientation, I felt as I could handle the truck safely, so off I went with my trainer. what followed was 9 weeks total of a lot of BS from 5 different trainers, all but one were full of crap. I was just a means to a bigger paycheck for the trainer (my miles driving which he got paid for all my miles) while I was getting paid $350 a week! BUT, I was getting a check where I hadn't for some time on unemployment and soon I would be upgraded in my own truck earning .26 CPM!!! well I learned how to SAFELY drive a tractor trailer through Stevens. they have a very good reputation for safety amongst all the other companies doing the same. They honored their part or the argain by offering to pay me to learn how to drive tractor trailers. I stuck out just over 1 year with them ending at .31 CPM. Yes in he beginning it was a lot of hand holding with routing, fuel stops, safety meetings and log book classes and map reading classes. But they had safety folks 24-7 talking you turn by turn directions on the Bluetooth getting through and out of New York, Chicago or Philly if and when you screwed up and NOT too ashamed to admit it and ask for help. No one laughed at me or asking for help. Very good support from the office staff in ALL aspects, yes you jump through what seems like ridiculous hoops but in the end SAFETY is most important, at least it is to me anyway. After my time at Stevens, Crete carriers hired me at .39 out the gate.

By the time training was over during that initial 9 weeks, ,I know it's a long time especially if you've got a family to support I had saved over $2,000. not to shabby at $350 a week. after two years of driving I have saved enough to put a down payment on a nice little house. yes the beginning sucks at most training companies but in the end it was worth it. all of us know spending over 8 weeks with another smelly, dirty truck driver who never seems to get enough sleep sucks but stick it out for the long run. now I am on my way to being an owner operator with landstar making much more than .31 and more that .39 so just suck it up and get through it with a goal in mind. good luck and be safe.

 

I went thru orientation and then was given a nightmare for a trainer, the first 2 days I stayed at his house and he and his wife went to biker bars and I hf to o with them. Then the training started, we got along for the first couple of days and then when I was in the back sleeping and he was up driving he would hit the brakes or swerve the truck so I couldn't sleep. Then when I would start driving he did not want me having the A/C on because he got cold and he would turn the heater on and then told me I couldn't have the radio on. I'm a bigger man who was put with a skinny man. This all scared me because of safety issues. Then in the middle of it my phone died and he would not let me pull into Walmart to get a new AT&T phone to call my family. I have a 2 year old son, wife, and a mother who is not in good health. Part of the route went back hru Dallas and I told him he didn't have a choice but to drop me off. I left and went home and didn't look back. But now because of not looking back I'm having a hard time getting a job driving. Any suggestions?