Stevens Transport Aviary . . cont'

Try Central Refrigerated out of Salt Lake City.
http://www.centralref.com/

 

I believe Central was bought by Swift. Lol. Would you guys go to Swift?

 

Didn't know that I looked into them awhile ago for their school but they don't hire out of Md. for the school.

 

I find it hard to believe they're not hiring from Cali.
they ALWAYS hire from Cali.
Call again and try a different recruiter.
the central issue over hiring from one state vs another is getting the drivers home. We have a quota for FL for instance. When we're full, we don't hire. There is only so much freight into or out of FL.
But Cali? virtually unlimited.

 

Completely off topic but oh well. Do Greyhound drivers get paid extra for being exceptionally rude? If so this guy is a millionaire. En route to Denver for school

 

Greyhound use to be a good company to drive for, but that was then and this is now. There are a lot of underpaid, overworked and poorly vetted persons driving for the dog these days.
Just like trucks.

 

I'm gonna be kinda bummed if Stevens really isn't hiring in California right now. I was looking forward to driving for you guys. Hell I even have one of your beautiful KWs in my rear view right now lol. Driver actually made room for me to merge.

 

.. And the driver just merged over when he saw me stopping behind a customer.. Why can't all truck drivers be this considerate lol. I have half a mind to call Stevens with his truck number and make him out like he is the greatest trucker on earth. Lol. Its the simple things us tow operators appreciate..

 

Trailer problems...

I remember that time in Hershey, PA picking up a loaded trailer. While doing the walk around I noticed no license plate on the trailer. That cost me some time...

Really, other than that I picked one up in Brawley that had a flat tire on a Sunday. That cost me a half a day.

Once I grabbed a load in Dinuba (?), CA and ran out of time. I pulled onto the side street and took my 10. I had 1/2 tank of fuel in the reefer. Woke up 5 hours later with reefer not running. Out of fuel. Stevens wasnt happy. Got yelled at by someone treating me like a 2 year old. Spent almost ALL day at Thermo King in Fresno before Stevens would clear me to leave even though TK was done with me within the first hour.

I guess that I was really lucky with the trailers that I picked up. I had to replace marker lights, etc but never anything major

 

9813, 6 tires and a hub. 9476 door wouldnt close and required rocking like a baby and sweet talkin, 12145 bad tires and likes to bite.

hello from hometime! momma made gumbo cuz flue got da flu
the doctor was kind enough to give me tasty and delicious meds. weeee!