I'm a Maverick driver running RMW (regional midwest) if you have a question

Thanks "motocross25", I've been slacking a bit with updates, so I'll try to keep at it.
Last week I left out Monday morning and delivered in Greenfield, IN, which is pretty darn close to home. I then deadheaded over to Crawfordsville, IN and picked up a coil for the twin cities. I had a nice trip up with a tailwind the whole way and got unloaded and loaded just a few miles away in Wisconsin. That load was bound for Sparta, MI and was pallets with bags of sandblasting media. Chicago went well and I hit it just after morning rush hour and I enjoyed getting up into Michigan. When empty they deadheaded me to our Portage, IN yard since my truck needed a big service. I made it down there with little hours to spare and first thing in the morning I got my service complete. Our terminals are nice in that you can take a company car for food, they have showers and laundry, and an exercise room. In time I got an assignment to deadhead back up to Grand Haven, MI to get a load of finished steel parts bound for NC. I loaded Friday morning so this was my take home load. So here I sit, Friday night at home again! This makes well over 80 straight weekends I've gotten home with Maverick.

 

It's best to take your time and get as much background info as you can. I can answer (maybe) any questions that might come up. I've learned that Maverick is as honest as they come about everything. What you see and hear is what you'll get. Living in SL should get you good work. Good luck!

 

Maverick does offer pretty good insurance, but I'm on my wife's plan and can't tell you if it's even better or worse. They do contribute into a matching style retirement plan, but I'm not signed up for it either. It's fairly recent and I haven't gotten around to it yet. If you ask for hard numbers on the health plan I'm sure they will tell you.

 

Last week saw me driving to NC, then western Illinois, over to Ohio, to Chicago where I broke down with a broken fan belt, then got a load from Burns Harbor to take home. I'll deliver that coil in Madison, IL (near our terminal) Monday morning. Meanwhile, I'm picking up a student Sunday. He's a TCD driver, so he'll be trained doing everything except securement. Since he didn't go through our securement training he won't be allowed to work up on the trailer. I made this video last week.

 

Exciting and really, really long week! Left out Sunday afternoon with my new student and drove to our Maverick terminal in Madison, IL. We delivered in the morning about a mile away! We deadheaded down into the Mark Twain Forest to a remote lumber yard and got a load which delivered in Fort Smith, AR ... right across the street from our terminal. We barely made it to the terminal by bed time and delivered our lumber in the morning. Steel plant using lumber? Yes, for dunnage! We turned right around and loaded bar for a place about 10 miles away, then returned to our yard and did a trailer swap for a load of bar going to Royal Oak, MI. We delivered, got our rest, then got a load of 4 coils to Allentown, PA. That put us a long way from home on Friday morning, but we unloaded quickly, then headed to the Port of Philadelphia to load lumber. We drove that home and got a much needed weekend at home. We'll leave out early Monday to deliver this load outside Chicago and start a new week.

 

This past week started with a very early drive from home to Chicago for a delivery we took home. We then loaded in Portage, IN for extreme southern Georgia with skidded coils. Our load out of Georgia was veneer which delivered in West Virginia. From there we loaded oriented strand board for a load home. It delivers in Ft. Wayne, IN Monday morning. So it was a three night at home weekend again! Next week will see us going to North Little Rock where I'm being assigned a new truck, then I need to be home for Memorial Day weekend because of a family funeral. My student has finished his second week and is progressing well!