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Hi, just got my CDL a few days ago. Faxed an app to Maverick 10/20/2011, and have not received any reply, or confirmation. Is that normal? Thanks,...Tom

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How many miles do you average just coming out of being trained?

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How many miles do you average just coming out of being trained?
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Go to trucking companies the inside scoop then click on maverick there are several threads that will answer all your questions.

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Hi, just got my CDL a few days ago. Faxed an app to Maverick 10/20/2011, and have not received any reply, or confirmation. Is that normal? Thanks,...Tom
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"Faxed" it in? Maverick's applications used to be a few pages long in a small recruiting envelope that anyone could fill out and transflo in at any truckstop that offered transflo services. The same application envelope also had a business rate postal envelope to snail mail it in as well.

As far as i know, Maverick has gone 100% computerized with their applications, meaning you fill out the application on line. I'd suggest you do that, fill an application out on line and go from there. That's very uncharacteristic of the recruiting department not to contact someone. I've talked to a driver whom asked if i had an application, and sent their name and phone number to the recruiting department via qualcom and they have been contacted usually by the end of the next business day. 102011 was a thursday and its been over a week now..........Yep fill out an on line application and see where it goes from there.

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Hello Sarge,
I am at Roadmaster School in Columbus, OH now, in 2nd week of three. Hope to have the CDL soon, and have been visited by Warren (Recruiter) and called by Mason (Recruiting Dept?). I am VERY interested in Maverick!! I live maybe 30 minutes away from the Maverick location in Middletown, OH. Do you happen to know if there are any Driver Instructors such as yourself who are close to my area that I could POSSIBLY get teamed up with for my training, as to allow me to have the Home-Time during my training period? I am a family-guy and would love to have the ome-time possibilities that Maverick drivers appear to have- and to have that during training would just beicing on the cake I believe. Thanks for all of your posts on here.

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thank you maam. woulda clicked the thank you button but for some reason this computer gives me 25 violation points and kicks me out of the program for doing so so i had to type it out with my usual as long as the baby's sleeping long story short explanation. thank you.

and since you are married to a new driver with maverick, i apologize if your husband is one of the new drivers who was assigned to a driver trainer who does not live near you that gets your hubby home when the trainer gets home. Maverick tries to do so but it doesn't always happen.
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My husband's trainer was Danny. They were trainer/trainee for 6 weeks and 1 weekend was spent at Danny's home near Washington DC, 1 weekend in Illinois and hubby spent 4 weekends of that at our home (well, that includes the weekend after Danny said that my hubby was ready for his eval out testing). So, we were pretty lucky.

So far, hubby has made it home every weekend since he got his own truck (he MUST be home this weekend because he has a doctor's appointment on Monday to get refills for his cholesterol and blood pressure - both run in his family so he keeps up with those).

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Hey Sarge, saw you looking all snazzy there in the recruitment brochure my school-to-be gave me. I've got a few things to clear up on my end before I get my CDL, but had a good chat with a Maverick recruiter today. I do have a question that maybe you can answer. Let's say I get on with a trucking company. Let's say that I'm doing well, but I decide to move to another position within the company-- drive a desk rather than a truck for a while. Is this an option with Maverick or most other companies? Or is one forever stamped with the "Driver" tag as far as trucking companies are concerned?

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Hi, just got my CDL a few days ago. Faxed an app to Maverick 10/20/2011, and have not received any reply, or confirmation. Is that normal? Thanks,...Tom

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"Faxed" it in? Maverick's applications used to be a few pages long in a small recruiting envelope that anyone could fill out and transflo in at any truckstop that offered transflo services. The same application envelope also had a business rate postal envelope to snail mail it in as well.

As far as i know, Maverick has gone 100% computerized with their applications, meaning you fill out the application on line. I'd suggest you do that, fill an application out on line and go from there. That's very uncharacteristic of the recruiting department not to contact someone. I've talked to a driver whom asked if i had an application, and sent their name and phone number to the recruiting department via qualcom and they have been contacted usually by the end of the next business day. 102011 was a thursday and its been over a week now..........Yep fill out an on line application and see where it goes from there.
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I called Maverick 10/29/11 and left a message asking if they had received my faxed in app. Monday 10/31/11 a man returned my call saying they did, and I was denied. Said with no work history the last 3 years, I'm not eligible. I'm an early retired (years of service plus age equals 80) Cleveland carpenter. I have a good work ethic and work history, and will keep looking. Wondering now if they were ever going to reply to my app, with the bad news,...Tom

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Hey everyone, its Sarge

Since Jim the Hut's thread (excellent description of Maverick's Orientation, Securement Training, experience with his driver trainer, and daily travels once assigned to his own truck) is used quite frequently by drivers with questions about Maverick Transportation's driver trainers and what is required by the students once assigned to a driver trainer, i thought i'd start a thread specifically for such questions. Ask away and i will do my best to answer. Of course anyone is free to ask/answer any and all questions in this thread and please do.

If the response comes from me, i assure you, it is based on my requirements of my students with Mavericks requirements of me as one of their driving instructors. If you ask my "opinion" on something, that is what you will get, my opinion. Some questions that will probably be asked in this thread could probably be better answered by a Maverick Recruiter. In that case, i'll tell you to ask recruiting.

This is what i expect of my students once i'm assigned to them as their driver trainer. Each one of my students gets a hard copy of the following. I call it "Great Expectations"
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Great Expectations

Welcome to truck 11812. My name is J.W. There are too many Johns in this world and most people p in them, so i prefer to be called by my cb handle which is "Sarge". You've probably heard horror stories about other students Driver "Trainers". First of all, i didn't train or teach them. i don't train people, i teach them. i've trained cats to sit-up, speak, rollover, and dance. and i've trained dogs to sit, speak, rollover, dance, stay, and fetch. Animals get "trained", humans get "taught or instructed". With that in mind, i'd prefer to be referred to as your "Driving Instructor" rather than your "driver trainer".

For the next two or three days, you will not drive the truck, but may be asked to back it into parking spaces, loading bays, docks, etc. There is a reason why i do everything the way i do. You not driving for the first couple of days is to get you familiar with the sights and sounds of the truck as well as to retrain (re-instruct) your brain to recognize things going by at a slower rate. My cruising speed, empty or loaded is 57 mph. Most people are not used to driving that slow and will fall asleep if asked to do. i'd rather you fall asleep in the passenger seat than while driving.

Hopefully, You noticed the company name on the door. It reads "Maverick". I am a company driver assigned to this truck, however, i drive it as if it were my own and take care of the equipment assigned to it, and manage the fuel i put in it as if i paid for it myself. i drive it as efficiently as possible and will teach you to do the same if you are willing to learn.

When i first found out you were assigned to me, i contacted You and asked You to make a list of expectations as to what You expect from me. the following is a list of expectations for you to follow while You are assigned to me:

1. Watch and Learn
2. Do as i ask
3. Ask alot of questions other than "Why?"
4. Don't call me "sir" (or maam for that matter)
5. Take pride in your job and be professional
6. Dont use racial slurs
7. Keep phone use to a minimum when You are driving
8. Take out the trash whenever necessary
9. Don't eat my last can of soup or package of crackers
10. Dont drink my last powerade or drop of water
11. Brush your teeth and use deodorant daily (more often if necessary)
12. Don't pleasure yourself when i'm in the bunk below You
13. Don't wet the bed when i'm in the bunk below You
14. Use the F.R.D. (Flatulance Removal Device), crack the window, when necessary
15. Be safe
16. Have Fun

i know a little about alot of things and will talk about alot of things but there are two things i really don't care to discuss; Politics and Religion. Why? There has been more bloodshed over those two subjects than about anything in history, and discussions about both tend to get heated with some people which causes most people to forget about their primary responsibility when driving a big truck. . . .DRIVING!!!

i'm not a racist or sexist person. To me, it doesn't matter if you're male, female, homosexual, black, white, oriental, latino, WHATEVER!!! You are my student. i will try to teach you to be safe, have fun, and be successfull here at Maverick.

Lock the door, buckle up, and Enjoy the ride
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Alot of drivers that are interested in Maverick ask what they should bring with them to orientation. To Orientation, ask a recruiter. On truck 11812 i will tell you All P.P.E., a pair of comfortable shoes other than steel toed boots, and at least one weeks worth of clothes, a laundry bag (non mesh style), shower shoes, sleeping bag, pillow, blanket, thermal top and thermal bottoms and a clipboard for your logs and student evaluations.

For those of you who have never been OTR (over the road) in a truck but may have camped out before, imagine the floor space of a 3 man dome tent, add six inches to it, put in a dashboard, drivers seat, passenger seat, cabinets, and a set of bunk beds. That is how much space you have inside one of these trucks. Long story short, if you are not going to use it everyday, don't bring it. Leave it back at little rock and you can put it in your truck once you evaluate out.

Truck 11812 is a Cascadia model Freightliner truck complete with the new DEF (deisel exhaust fluid) tank, and APU heat and air conditioning. THEY ARE HEAVY. My empty weight with my stuff, minimum equipment and boards with a 102 inch trailer and full of fuel is close to 32,000 lbs. So leave what you are not going to use almost daily behind.

The APU air conditioning works well but the APU heater has not worked properly since i was assigned to it. On two seperate occasions, i have sat for one day each time trying to get the APU heater fixed, and am not going to waste any more time (which in my book is money) in a shop to get it fixed. I DO NOT IDLE and am a firm believer in Maverick's Fuel Bonus Program. In 2010, i netted (not grossed) over $3100.00 in fuel bonus alone. If you want to spend your money on candy and potato chips, whatever when you dont own any proper cold weather gear, don't complain to me about it or as i say bring some cheese to go with your whine.

I also bring almost all of the food and drink for myself for the week on the truck with me. If i do eat a sit down meal, it will be during my 10 hour break. Same goes for showers. If you are the type of person that requires a shower every time they break a sweat, let it be known that my showers are taken for the most part during my 10 hour break. Some drivers will shower after they deliver then after they pick up, and possibly in the morning or evening at the beginning or end of each day for a total of 2 or 3 showers a day. Not me. If You have a problem with that, simply ask Maverick to assign you to someone else. I would not be offended in the slightest.
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thank god I didnt have a trainer like you..

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i was told that the only good thin about pulling a fl;at is that the majority of your loads are NOT time sensitive? How true is this and if true is this a good thing for a person just starting out?

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