Cowen Systems - Baltimore, MD

Figured I'd post up about my move to Cowen.

Orientation:
Flew me from Pittsburgh to Baltimore and back
Got a nice hotel room by myself
They brought in lunch both days and let us spend up to $20 each night for dinner
The two days of classes were pretty packed with a ton of information. They even paid me by the hour for my flight time and time getting. to the hotel. Thought it was pretty nice doing all of this for a local job.

Day 1:
Met the driver who was going to give me my road test (yes, road tested after I flew back from orientation). That ended up being me doing my job for a whole shift. Pretty nice driving around Pa/Wv/Oh picking up and delivering pallets. Does suck the trucks can barely hit 65mph on all those 70mph roads and a trailer full of blue pallets is pretty heavy.

 

Day: 2
More of the same. One trailer had a bad tire, called it in and got another trailer, didn't have to deal with getting the tire changed. First time for that, my last company would've made me wait hours and not paid me for it. So far they've held up their end of the deal, 2 days on day shift and they put me on night shift next week as promised. Hopefully it continues and I might just actually stay and be happy with a job for once.

 

It's done at labcorp/concentra, but if you already have a valid card you don't need to get one. The benefits aren't that bad, but it is pricey, around $66 a week for one person.

 

It's after 60 days. I get paid mileage unless the run is under 48miles then it's hourly and live unloads are hourly too.

 

So I finally got my own peterbilt to drive. It's pretty much the same 400 mi loop every night either a sams club or Aldi distribution center on either end of a welchs run all the way up to northeast, pa. Nothing really to complain about, they didn't even bother me when I stopped for a while when there was a few inches of snow on the road when I was bob tailing back home this morning. Now all I have to do is spell it Cowan instead of Cowen

 

They cycle their trucks out every 3 years so eventually it'll be all peterbilts. They are all auto shifts which I love, not really fun shifting through 50 lights it seems to take to get to every sams club. Only bad thing about the peterbilts is they have tiny tanks on them, I have to fill mine up everyday.