New Grad, 1st Job Search, Application Frenzy

Another thing that Maverick has is securement jobs. They pay like 20 bucks an hour to secure loads and drive them around the yard. Basically a yard spotter. Personally, that's not enough money by a lot for me to secure loads all day long

One good thing about flatbed is that if you need to, you can haul other types of trailers with another company. But if you don't have flatbed experience, you can't take your van/reefer experience and just couple to a skateboard and go, without a week or more of specific flatbed training.

 

Maverick regional actually does get you home on weekends, or they will pay you for 800 miles for staying out over the weekend. Most people are home for at least a 34 hour restart and a lot of them are home 50-55 hours depending on what the freight looks like. And you can take the truck home as well. I know a lot of people who drive for Maverick and swear they'll drive for no other company.

 

Heck yes that’s a good enough reason haha. Search Dale Clay on YouTube. He has a very interesting and informative blog on his time at Maverick all the way from training. And he lives in St. Louis too. You’re right, he gets home every weekend no problem. The steel mills in Granite City help. As does the central location St Louis sits from Little Rock to Chicago it seems.

 

@RedRover again brings up an excellent point. When these companies advertise home weekends. A lot if not most means a “truckers weekend” Friday night rollin in Sunday evening leaving. So when they do advertise that ask them exactly what they mean by “home weekends” he’s also correct in saying about Maverick, especially in the freight lane you are in by St Louis and right next to their terminal. The likelihood of you parkin it Friday and not seein it til Monday goes up exponentially

 

Greetings Guera..!!
These days is all about the Insurance companies requirements. Be patient.....!
Once you place the application, give Two days and call them Live...for an Status Update.

 

You can take 4 days at Swift. They say one day off per week you are out, but I know PLENTY of people who would tell their FM they were going home for a couple of days and then just kept pushing it out. Swift says they will have you turn in the truck and get put in a new truck when you come back if it's going to be more than 4 days, but when I was dedicated I took 6 days once with not so much as a phone call asking if I was dead. At Swift you can push the home time really as long as you want, so long as you're not rejecting the loads they are sending and you keep an updated PTA. If you're not available, planners won't send loads. With a smaller company, they will definitely want that truck utilized.

I'm actually surprised that home time isn't something that recruiters aren't trying to preemptively lie to you about without being prompted. That's normally their go to lie, that you won't have to work at all, you'll only be doing drop and hook and you won't ever have to do anything but drive. I can tell you now, local or otherwise, that's a #### lie. If you choose an OTR company with a lot of terminals, I'd have my home terminal set on the west coast, or as far away from your actual home as possible--because they tend to do anything they possibly can to keep you far from home. Then they inadvertently send you home, and you're like well guys, I'm gonna take a few days. Later