Heading For Little Rock! Maverick

Do you know if there are any Instructors in the Missouri area?

 

OTR= over the road. Based on your questions, i'm guessing you're interested in flatbed. I'll do my best to answer your ?s from a flatbedders perspective. Flatbed, other than dedicated accounts are out for at least one week at a time. Maverick tries to get us home for a 34 hour restart or "thru the house" every weekend. (BTW "weekend" at any trucking company means home for a restart, not Friday 5pm til Monday at 9am). UNLESS you are in the "Long Haul" division, they are out for at least 2 weeks at a time. The different divisions within flatbed are based on the address you give Maverick as your "home". RAT (Regional Atlantic Division) east of I 75. U.S. Division (east of I-35) and RSW (regional Southwest) not really sure so ask the recruiter you've contacted OR go on Maverick's website and look up hiring areas.


Maverick's Glass Division, Long haul, and TCD (temperature control division) are the ones that are out for at least 2 weeks at a time.


the last average I heard was TCD was home every 2-3 weeks but I don't know much about that division but there are other posters in here (Hawkeye and Captain) who sleep infront of those noisy things. lol.

answer to ?2. Maverick tries to send you home loaded with something to deliver by 10am on Monday the following week. The miles are paid in the pay period in which the load is delivered. Here's an example for you.................... I loaded in fort smith last Friday evening a load to deliver in Columbus Ohio the following Monday. paid miles on that load was 918. (paid miles by the way are zip code to zip code) so this week Monday, when I delivered, I was already at almost 1000 miles for the week. Believe me, it adds up. Some loads take longer than others to secure, tarp, load, unload, etc but it is possible to get 2500 miles a week. Interstates and some highways have a higher speed limit than 55, construction zones do slow you down a bit and have lower speed limits WHICH YOU BETTER NOT EXCEED and as I stated earlier, some loads take longer than others to load secure and tarp. I delivered an untarped load of steel bar today that took 34 minutes from the time I arrived, fully secured, until the time I was prepared for another load. It is possible.

3. Receiver's appointment times based on 50mph. Again, i'm just a stupid truck driver but if I owned a company that could not handle "first come first serve" deliveries, I would base my appointment times on the average amount of time it took my employees to unload one truck and how many trucks could be unloaded during my business' open hours. I haven't the 1st clue on what customers base their appointment times.


Maverick tells its new drivers to base their etas on miles to destination divided by 50 (50mph would be an AVERAGE moving speed and a low one at that. most drivers go a bit quicker. lol)

 

Yes we have instructors that live in the Mo area.

 

I guess I need 7 post to PM. Lol OK.

 

Ramloghauler, I'll PM in a shortly.

 

I'm only interested in Flatbed. Recruiter told me, based on my zip code I'd run Regional. Midwest, South and Southeast. So I understanding that is the U.S. Division Correct?

So paid miles are Zip code to zip code, not hub miles?

When I'm out with an Instructor, can we request a load to NYC or the Bronx? It would be nice to have an Instructor with me the first time there. LOL. I drove through Baltimore once on a Sunday morning at 0900 and it was like ST Louis on a Monday at 0800. Very heavy traffic.

 

Thanks Sarge for the information.

Are messages sent in each time you do a load check?

 

I have driven in every lower 48 states. 80-90% of the stuff that I've driven thru, including NYC and every location around it, I did without my instructor present.

As for requesting it, you get sent where the company has the loads going. This is a forced dispatched company. Which means, they tell you where to go, you smile and go, and complain to the rest of the drivers later

 

Correct you are paid zip code to zip code. For instance I unloaded on the south end of St. Louis, MO one day and got a load 23 miles away to pickup; however, it only paid 1 mile deadhead. Reason being, was that the zip codes were side by side. They want you to stay less than 10% out of route, but in cases like that one, I had to make up the difference on the loaded distance. I went to NYC, New Jersey and like HvyHaul said every location around it, all without an instructor present. I was lucky when I went across the GW in NYC. Of the three times I crossed it it was smooth sailing, no heavy traffic at all. I know from talking to some other guys I know, that when they went across it, traffic was a nightmare.

They try to show you different routes and loads you will be carrying while you are with your trainer, but they cannot show you every possible situation and load. There was one time, I had to pickup 21 coils at NAS in Ghent Ky and I was like how the heck am I going to do this. I used every strap and chain I had to secure the load. You can ask any of these guys on here and at some point they have went to pick up a load and when they got there, they were scratching their heads, thinking "how is this going to work". When in doubt call someone or ask, never assume something if you are not sure. I would rather someone look at me stupid, but me secure it correctly, than secure it wrong and it fall off my trailer and kill or injure someone.

 

Yep, you'd be considered U.S. division. zip code to zip code not hub miles. The difference between the two are considered OOR (out of route). Maverick's goal is 10% out of route average per quarter year. 120613 is my 6 year anniversary and I've been to NYC once. Its just like any other major city, St Looney, Louisville, Baltimore, Washington DC, Chicago etc. Like any trip to anywhere, know where you are going, how to get there, how to get out and just do it. So no reason to request to go there.