Prime or Stevens

From what I hear stevens has recently stopped the Dumb and dumber thing.





American Trucker

 

Let's not turn this into a 'my company is better than yours battle, and help the guy out.

 

They havent done the student/student aka dunb/dumber thing in a long time.

 

I know its your third choice but the recruiter can get a judgement from safety and knock the training miles down to 40k or maybe even 20k.

We drop our trailers at participating customers and drop yards and take our

tractors home.

Good luck in whatever you decide.

 

U2, as always, great and plentiful information on Prime. It looks like I will be going back there, as we will have to move from Omaha soon and I will have to leave my locally based company. I am sure they will ask me to be a trainer... so probably joining you out there in a few months.

 

A-T who do drive for ? I am looking for a job , I have 7 years driving OTR, looking for a good company.

 

I drive for Watkins Shepard




American Trucker

 

Living in TX, you have a lot of options. Those options are narrowed down greatly if you are looking for a company that will train you from the ground up, including helping you get your CDL. If that's your situation, I'd recommend calling the local job service office and see if they have some sort of training/retraining program available. Another option is a local community college to get your CDL and then there's the private CDL schools like Roadmaster. They're expensive but you're not obligated to any one company.

If you go with one of the latter options, once you have your CDL then you'll have many options other than Stevens or Prime.

If, on the other hand, you need a paid training/CDL program I am pretty sure that Roehl has a program to help you get your CDL. I'd go with Roehl 8 days a week before the other two mentioned. There may be other companies out there that offer training too but can't think of any off the top of my head.

Another idea-go down to the local truck stop and hang out by the fuel island and talk to drivers coming through there.

It appears that you're looking for a reefer job. If you really want to go that route then May Trucking would be a good option if you can get your CDL first. They hire new graduates but don't provide CDL training. That's who I started with and I was out on my own in 12 days. Not saying that that's advisable for everyone but it worked out fine for me.

GL whatever you do.

 

More options please....