Maverick a good fit for Kentucky drivers?

I'm going to a local community college CDL program here in Kentucky and strongly considering Maverick. Mostly because of the reported first year earnings potential that I read about on this forum, and overall good reports about the company, hometime, equipment, so on and so forth.

Hoping for some reports from Kentucky domeciled Maverick drivers, or perhaps someone in close contact with a Kentucky driver. Whatever someone could tell me, hometime, miles, quirks particular to Kentucky, whatever.

I am well aware of local outifts here in Ky and appreciate being steered toward local carriers, but I started this thread to discuss Maverick as it pertains to a Kentucky domeciled driver, and I would like to keep it focused on that, thanks. On that note, I do not want to discuss my chosen route of obtaining a CDL either.

 

Well, the physical activity shouldn't be too much of a problem. I've been working as a material handler/forklift driver for over a year in a mill. I spend most of my night fooling with 1500kg steel coils that must be cut out of "tuna cans" and then loaded onto machinery. I also drive a tow motor pulling 18ft wagons weighing upwards of 5000kg, but you can only pull them so far in the mill before you have to unhook them and physically manuever them into work areas. During this last summer, temps in the mill were in excess of 130F daily. Bottled water and Gatorade become your best friends.

Four times a week I have to load a 53ft box with wagons and coils, but I also have to stack skids on top of the wagons which requires load securement equipment and large straps. It's quite a sight really, I would post pictures but I'm sure the company wouldnt like it too much.

I'm pretty clean cut, no dope, I dont miss work, not afraid of hard work, and most of the time I am pretty humble. I dont usually talk much, just keep my head down and focus on doing a good job. I've been offered management 3 times in 2 divisons with this company but I've turned it down for various reasons.

At the moment, my driving record is clean. No accidents, tickets, or violations for 5 years. No DUI's, ever. I'm a retired truckers son, and really, this has been a long time coming for me. Whether its with Maverick or not, I'll be OTR sometime before summer, hopefully. But I like what I read about them, just havent seen too much directly concerning KY drivers. I see Maverick trucks quite often when I go visit my folks up near Chicago, but not here in Central KY too much. Thank you for your input seawheeler, it is greatly appreciated. Its good news to hear you are traveling through the Bluegrass quite often.

 

I used to run Louisville to Cincinnati nightly for almost a year with a courier outfit. I dont remember it being very curvy, maybe around the state line. Biggest thing that sticks out in my mind was all the deer that live in the median through there. Theres a SUPER wide median through a particular stretch and it is HEAVILY populated with deer. Or was, I havent been through there in about 8 years now.

This is all great news so far. I'm about 30 min's from I-65.