is stevens a good company to drive for

In fact,it is under the Motor Carriers section,-enjoy

 

Read here

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/stevens/97249-stevens-transport-aviary.html

 

and here
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...97757-stevens-transport-a-year-in-review.html

 

Stevens Transport's training is hard but fair. If you want a career as a trucker you need to get the true taste of the business straight up at the get-go with no favors, akin to basic training. Neither occupation can afford mistakes down the line. Can't learn from your trainer, you can switch. Additional questions, techniques...use the Internet.
Finish your training, drive solo for a year in a well maintained, recent model truck. Don't like 30cents per mile, try lease option, getting a free education of owner-operator finances and details. You can bug out of that anytime you want and go back to Company driver, or you can resign and look for another Company that pays better and whose business model is not as heavily weighted in student training. Bottom line, if you want to make it as a Trucker and get a solid year of good training and experience behind you Stevens is as good as it gets. Whiners need not apply.

 

look out, zombie thread :smt100

 

Cali, you weren't contacted by a real law firm. They don't actually call people they are suing. You were contacted by a collection agency. I am going through bankruptcy and have been dealing with the same "types" of calls. I always ask the attorney to identify themselves so I can look them up. I know this was posted a bit a go but you can have 1 negative removed from your credit report (each one) and that would still keep you in good standing. They did what they did and broke their end of the contract and by failing to agree to the settlement amount. You can sue them. With your experience, the USPS is a cool gig. UPS and FED EX have you home a lot more. You didn't state how long you were supposed to drive for Stevens but what the collection agency stated is almost twice what most private CDL schools charge. If you do your homework, that was a collection agency. An attorney isn't allowed to legally call someone and threaten with all the things you were threatened with. My BF's position at his company was eliminated and he always wanted to be a trucker when he was a kid and now he feels that his boyhood dream can come true. If you even spent 15 minutes with him, you would understand why I have been asking him to explore EVERY avenue before he goes to CDL school. I love him more than he loves himself. Ne is WAY too passive and if he would have received a call like you did, he would have paid the full amount. He has no idea how to stand up for himself. He doesn't know how to say NO and I'm really afraid that he is going to jump into a pool of sharks. I'm a nurse and we could smell fresh blood when they hit the floor and knew after 1 day which new nurses would survive and which wouldn't. THAT is a vicious field to get into. Like any industry, the one's that will stand up for themselves, ask for help, play well with others, know how to be sociable, and know how to look the bullies in the face, are the one's that survive. I understood the content of your message. I have read other comments and they have missed the point completely due to the ability to comprehend the context.

 

Did I read this on Trucker's Report? @frisco44 who writes: "Don't like 30 cents per mile, try lease option, getting a free education of owner-operator finances and details. You can bug out of that anytime you want and go back to Company driver..." Duh, guess you don't realize that every veteran poster on this site has been trying to warn newbies about lease deals for around the past 10 years? But nah, you have no stake in this game, I guess.