Stevens transport

Feel sorry for that doc, A bunch of Fat guys stripping down is not a image I want to take home with me every night. Hopefully he don't tell them to bend over spread the cheeks and cough. Some of the guys out here that could be a guided missile coming his way.

 

They have a male and female doc. My group had the female doc look us over. You do get to keep your boxers on till the cough test.

 

Must be strict down there. Here we did a few squats with a pull bar and walked up steps a few times and the normal turn ur head and cough BS. Took 40 min maybe!

 

Why wouldn't you lost this in the Stevens Forum? Likely you will get more accurate information. Most of those responding here have never worked there, and the one who has is brand new and out with a trainer.

Just a suggestion.

 

I worked for Stevens as my first driving job. this was in 09 to 2011. they have a good training program, but they expect you to stay out for five to six weeks at a time. they are a true 48th state carrier so you will see every corner of the country. my experience was pretty good there. I got good training but I got burned out on staying out so long.

 

That was my first job several years ago. I don't know about right now but here is what I went through. First you do 5 weeks with a trainer. Hope they don't have any mental dysfunctions. My first trainer wouldn't let me drive because her best friend's trainee drove her over cabbage patch and killed her. Always yelling at me. 5 weeks I was done but they put me with another trainer who never drove, said I couldn't listen to the radio and smoked a pack a minute. The old bat left me at the geneva truck stop and Stevens left me sitting at a bench all night until shift change the next day. They decided to finally put me in the hotel across the street. Soon as I got my things there and laid down the clerk called my room saying someone was waiting for me. I hadn't slept. They made her go back to get me. She actually thought I was going to drive! Long story short she lied through her teeth when we got back to the yard and I was about to get fired except another driver was a witness that I was doing all the driving but she was logging it. Third trainer, nice guy. He was the reason I made it as a trucker. It had been 3 months and I still had not even been through my state. They then put me with a trainee who needed to bathe. I broke Stevens 7 a.m. rule and she called and told on me. It was against their rules to drive before 7 a.m. They called it the "danger zone" hours. It was 5 till 7 and I got fired because at this point when asked if I cared about their rules my exhausted home sick reply was that I didn't give a dam* about their stupid rules. The reefers were always broken of course and at least once a week we had to sleep over at a Thermo King shop making no money. Kept getting to loads to pick up and the reefers had no fuel. More time spent having load inspected. The owner was sick of drivers coming into the yard with the Jakes on so he had all of them taken out. That is a safety device. Maybe my first trainers friend would still be alive if Stevens had left the jake brakes on the trucks. You will sit in California for DAYS waiting to get loaded with rotten produce. No you don't get paid for it. They drug screened the first day then after class everyone partied at the hotel pool. The next day they drug screened again and over half the class went missing. They did it again on the last day and 3 more got sent home. Out of 50 people there was about 9 0f us left. They are serious about alcohol because the safety guy at the time BEAT IT IN EVERYONE to NEVER drive after drinking but lost his job after rolling a Stevens truck and had beer in it. The same guy who fired me because I pulled out 5 minutes early instead of picking my nose waiting for the clock to be exactly 7 a.m. Expect your dispatcher to surprise you any day by waiting until you are ready to unload then informing you that YOU have to unload the floor loaded truck. The reasoning was that there were no lumpers yet I was watching at least 5 of them while on the phone. This was my first trucking job. Satellites came about 5 years later. Well the lumper wanted 125 bucks and dispatcher declined saying I would get paid 95 to unload it. I had had enough. I told them nicely I was going to bed and to let me know when they were ready to pay a lumper. They paid it. If you have never driven before, don't beat up your trainer when the reefer comes on while you are in REM sleep. You will get used to it after about a week. I went flatbed for a few years then dry box but won't ever drive refrigerated ever again. Some drivers see no problems. It is just my own preference to have a quiet dry box. I only had to fill my tractor with dry and not pull up to fill a trailer with fuel every time also, yet keep those records separate. One of my biggest beefs was having to sleep next to utter smelly strangers the entire time I was there because they refused a double bunk until my last trainer, who had a double and a brand new truck who also showered. WAY too many rules in the name of "safety", trainers who just might kill YOU going down a mountain with no jake and you are hauling HANGING SWINGING meat doing what you KNOW you have to because you can "feel" what is going on but the trainer is screaming at you not to when he/she can't see what you do nor feel the trailer controlling your steering. I nearly starved and I am not kidding at all. As a trainee I made less than 300 a week before taxes which I sent home. They won't pay a trainee enough to make it. You are promised big dollars but even if you make it through training you will find no big dollars because you sat somewhere for 3 days and they will DIE to avoid letting you go home. This was a long time ago but it won't take any effort to go to a truck stop and actually ask a Stevens driver what is good and bad about the company. I am fairly certain the only thing they have changed is the year of the trucks. I hated pulling into the Dallas yard exhausted yet STILL had to go through every service bay (waiting sometimes a couple hours ) because they had a rule you couldn't park your truck until it went through every service bay to be checked. Only THEN could you go find a parking spot, go talk to everyone you had to talk to, then finally go lay down. Go look up the percentage of their turnover rate. Look at ALL companies you are interested in. Those percentages are all you need to understand a company. They don't lie. If I gave you my advice it would be to RUN AWAY. You have a butt load of other choices. Good luck.

 

So you are saying you and the trainer slept in the same bunk...at the same time?.

 

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