Any Questions for a Driver Trainer for Maverick?

I usually refer new drivers interested in Maverick to read start to finish Jim the Hut's thread in here which details his 3 year experience with Maverick from day one to present day and is updated usually daily via laptop/smartphone (Jim correct me here if nec.) so I hope that was the guy he put down. We all post on each others threads in here. I started this one after reading a lot of questions about drivers asking what's its like after orientation and driving with an instructor. UNFORTUNATELY, being the computer genius I am, I started it in "discuss you Favorite company portion of this site and not Maverick but using a keyword search will lead you to this one. I've asked if possible the Head honchos move the thread to the Maverick portion of this site but to no avail as of yet. I don't use this site as a recruiting platform for recruiting bonuses I simply want to give new drivers a view inside the trainer truck at the "bobblehead seat". Keep us all posted on your application process if Maverick is the way you choose to go. Have a great weekend....sarge

 

As we all know, this site is read and followed by some who cannot post in here but enjoy the computerized "stories from the road" so here's a good one for whomever may read this, be it j.c. ,,b.g. or b.p. or simply a driver interested in Maverick. Yesterday, at approximately 1145est hours myself and my student were headed towards Nucor Darlington, SC when we both saw another Maverick truck headed our way in the opposite direction. We were within 10 miles of Nucor in Darlington, SC and on a two lane road so i'm unable to provide a truck number for this driver. As he got closer to us, I could see his entire load and how it was secured because it was not tarped. Not having the steel tarped was not the problem, THE SECUREMENTS WERE. the product was multiple bundles of flat stock steel without blocking between the bundles (remember the ones you're supposed to wrap the bundles with the chains?) this wanna be Maverick driver had nothing but straps over the load WITHOUT ANY EDGE PROTECTION UNDER THEM!!!!!. None of the bundles of flat steel were wrapped with the straps (not that it would've helped anyway) and it appeared there were 5 bundles on the front of the trailer, the tallest of which was dead center in the trailer. so the bundle of flat steel in the center was pressed down by the straps over it, the outside bundles had a bit of pressure on them on the outer edges from the same straps, but the two inside bundles of steel on either side of center HAD NO SECUREMENTS TOUCHING THE PRODUCT!!!!!!!!! So what was holding those two bundles of steel in place??????? GRAVITY and gravity alone. What is going to punch those two bundles through the front of the cab when He brakes hard and the product slides forward????? MOMENTUM all you physics majors help me out here please with the formula to determine for example how much force is produced by lets say a 5000 lb projectile striking a solid object when said projectile is traveling at 65 mph. For those of you who have the "it'll never happen to me" complex, lets hope not because we all know who suffers when that stuff comes flying through the cab of the truck or falls off the trailer going down the interstate. UNFORTUNATELY usually the driver has a scratch or two and a ruined pair of underwear. Those who get killed by that type of product are the innocent ones, the kids strapped into the car seats that get their heads taken off when the product comes through the windshield right at them , The family on vacation next to the trailer when the straps come loose from the bundles moving on the trailer thereby loosening the securements passing the truck in a curve when the 24 tons of steel slide off center and tip the trailer over. etc etc etc. But of course YOU were in a hurry so just threw straps. YOU wanted to get home ASAP so YOU drove as fast as the truck would go. YOU obviously could give two shirts about Yourself of anyone else YOU pass or are passed by on YOUr trip. even my student who had only been in the truck for a week and a day, was like, "What The ......??? Oh and yah, Thursday the safety msg went out fleet wide re speeding tickets and medical cards and rising CSA scores??? Who cares?!?!??? Obviously YOU don't. I do as do many other Maverick drivers that don't care to be pulled into/behind every scalehouse like some other companies. I CARE!!! I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you want to be your own boss GO FOR IT!!!! Don't ruin Maverick's reputation, because YOU are too lazy to care about Yourself or others out on the road. Buy your own truck, find your own freight and have a blast!!! And when you're looking for sympathy from me when one of those "it'll never happen to me moments does", its in the dictionary somewhere between shirt and syphilis, (but of course YOU are too lazy to open a book and find out if it actually is. When I have a student and he notices a Maverick driver not doing what he's supposed to, I'm going to have him come over to YOU and ask YOU why YOU are doing it that way instead of the way he just learned Maverick wants it done while in the barn a coupla weeks ago when he was in orientation. I'm tired of answering "stupid questions" (why are YOU being so stupid?) so from now on, YOU can answer for YOUr own actions. done with my rant. Whew I feel better, do YOU?

 

Ok folks: 1. Ratchet binders-- If you choose not to use them, fine. Please unwind them and lube them at least once a week and when hanging in the rack, keep em wound shut please. tyvm

 

I don't think I know any of them personally sir but im sure with Arkansas being our home state and the state in which our HQ is located, Maverick has instructors that live in that area. You may or may not be assigned to an instructor that lives in your area. They try try try try try try try did I type try to match you up with an instructor that lives near you so he/she gets home, you do too, but it doesn't always happen sir. Good luck with your decision.

 

Phrase for the day gentlemen is "Professional Courtesy". Often used when describing a police officer not giving a speeding ticket to another police officer for speeding and/or other violations. We can apply it to Trucking as well be it while driving, loading, unloading, etc. Had the pleasure of picking up at Burns Harbor, In. Mittal. Door 6083. Hadn't been to that mill in a while but last few visits have been quite a long wait just to get into the scale. Anyways, rolled right up to the scale yester day afternoon, right up onto the scale, straight to the line formed outside door 6083 by what you may ask?.................2 MAVERICK DRIVERS. For those of you whom have never been to door 6083, its 2 doors, 2 trucks per bay= 4 trucks loading at once. USUALLY, once the crane puts the coil on your truck, you put a chain or two through the coil, secure it/them, and pull out to the 20 acre securing/tarping area directly in front of 6083. EVIDENTLY 2 Maverick Drivers decided to completely tarp INSIDE THE LOADING DOCK. Look fellas, if your afraid of getting a sunburn because there's not a cloud in the sky or you are so used to tarping near the Chicago area that you can't pull your truck outside on a 61 degree, not a cloud in the sky 5mph wind, by all means TAKE UP 1/2 of the available loading space to get every last bungee on your tarp before pulling out of the bay. PROFESSIONAL COURTESY- put others before you. Just so you know, after you dusted me driving out of the lot ( I was one of the 7 trucks outside the door in line waiting to be loaded DUE TO YOUR UNPROFESSIONALISM) I helped the remaining 4 Maverick drivers secure, and tarp. and allowed the 2 other drivers who were in the back up that YOU caused get loaded before me. (I wasn't getting home that night so why not). Hope you both have a nice weekend and a safe trip......sarge

 

Had the pleasure of loading securing tarping with plentygood, and 3 other Maverick drivers at Coilplus in Springfield, Oh this week. (where plentygood snapped that photo of me tarpingthat he posted in the bs thread) Was nice to see Maverick drivers helping each other. I was so impressed, I sent "attaboys" in for them for their "Maverick Way" performance as well as "attaboys" for the drivers that offered to help me as well. thank you gentlemen. Keep up the great work. They were all going to fcc Laurinburg if I remember correctly. Shortly after leaving that customer, I was preplanned on a 100 paid mile load from Dickson, tn. I was pleased as a pig in slop with the thought of delivering in Dickson, driving one mile to the pickup, 99 miles to the delivery in Jackson, tn where I would most certainly get a load from nearby and be home by Friday night.....WRONG. while delivering, I was unpreplanned and given a load to pu from the same shipper as the preplan but going to savannah, ga. Got to the pu and while they were trying to find the product, fm called and asked if I was being loaded, "nope" ok good don't take that load we have a different one for you coming to you......NOW. BEEP pu gypsum board in Cumberland city Thursday that dels Friday in Dothan, al. OK. get to Cumberland city and was loading next to another Maverick who had been next to the Maverick that got the Jackson load. He said the driver was quite peeved at the short hop so TO THE DRIVER THAT GOT THE JACKSON LOAD: I hope when you delivered in Jackson, tn you got a load out of gerdau that got you home earlier than my 230pm arrival at home SATURDAY. I also hope you realize you got paid 350 miles for that load you only drove 200 miles for total.