Stevens Runtime vs Hometime

Here is my understanding of Stevens hometime policy. You get 1 day of for every 7 days you drive. So if you drove for 10 weeks you would only be able to get 10 days home. I think 30 days is the max you can get on hometime. Good luck!

 

After your 9 week training and your issued a Tractor, will they load you to your home of record so you can pack your truck up with your personal items? I didn't read anything on this site about that.

 

They try to, but it may take a couple of loads to get you home depending on where you live. Me, After dumb and dumber, now finish trainer, I went home with the first load, but that is due to frieght moving from dallas tx to Wyoming.

 

I drive for marten now but thinking of porting over to stephens. Marten only allows up to four days off max unless u want to turn in ur truck for hometime not bad unless u have a new truck and get stuck with a POS when u get back so my question is if u stay out for 5 to 10 weeks and take ur hometime for 7 days or so do u loose ur truck or do u get to take it home with you

 

At stevens as a company driver, 5 days is the max amount of time off without loosing your truck.

 

Leaving marten for stevens? Any day of the week I think I would stay with Marten

 

And why would you say that wmpclam?

I do know that it depends on how good your driver manager is, if you get home on time with Stevens. Some are better at it than others, and I have seen the games that some of the DMs play claiming that they tried to get their driver home, when in reality, they pushed it off.

 

I suppose it has to do with two things...

1. The sheer amount of negative comments and upset ex drivers for stevens as compared to those for marten.

2. I personally don't want to stay out for a month at a time so I would vote for Marten.

 

Thanks for answering. The comparison of disgruntled drivers has more to do with Stevens being a front line training company, and martin is not. Martin is more selective about who they will hire than Stevens.

As far as home time, they are very similar, out 4 weeks, get 4 days off, martin caps it at 4, stevens caps it at 5.