Stevens Transport aviary

Hey Mate sorry sounds like a trip from hell, I had no home time from Oct 14th 2010 (when i started At Stevens) untill i quit Jan 21, 2011, and what your dealing with on planning was mostly the norm,

Those guys dont care they go home every night unlke us drivers on duty 24 hrs a day 7 days a week, no matter even when you are parked up for your 10, or what ever you do your still responcible for your truck and load, we really do not get paid for what we do eh?

But then again that depends on who you work for thank god i now work for the truck company i do, even get treated like a real person, about time these companeys like Stevens were vetted more but guess its the way it is

Be safe out there summers comming
Celtic Biker

 

TLea...make me feel confident.
I'm headed for an 1800 delivery of this load in Sacto.
then it's right back down in the valley for a 19 pick produce load, I'll bet.
(what, ME exaggerate?)
got this load as a repower in Dallas. Truck was four hours late. not his fault. someone failed to note he had to wait for hours to come back before he could move from Paris.
Trailer had two bad tires.
Finally get those replaced.
Getting TK code all the way here...ENGINE RPM.
Clear code, good for another couple hundred miles.
Temp's ok, tho.
When trying to get thru to breakdown for tires, got held on hold for 1 hour, 4 minutes.
Have run like a rabid ##### ape to get here. Averaged over 60 yesterday with all the coasting. Donna's gonna have a fit.
In Lake Havasu, getting ready to run last 589 miles. God willing and the creek don't rise, I should arrive there at 10.5 hours.
Lot's of room to spare!
In the meantime, my inverter has quit working. It appears to be a cable connection under the truck. Haven't had the time (in the daylight) to pull the faring off and take a look.
So I'm using my old portable 300 watt unit to keep the refrigerator cold.
Why didn't I just remain a brain surgeon?

 

Gotta love the Stevens way of doing things with produce. In the Stevens world, it seems as if California is a vacuum that once you are sucked into it it can be difficult to escape. Last summer I was stuck in that vacuum for three solid weeks. I was given multiple produce loads with several picks. By the time I was done with all the picks I could not make on time delivery as a solo driver. I would get as far as Winnemucca only to be repowered back into California. Very very frustrating. The one pick that stands out is one that Stevens told me to be there at 0500. When I arrive I was asked why I was there and the product would not be ready until 2300 that night. At 0100 I was released from the dock. Thank goodness my 90 days was up and it was time to head back to Dallas.

 

tell you fm your not going home and just go home

 

Hey TLea..was that you I passed on Tehachapi this morning?
Only 660 I saw. I'm the one that was waving my arm out the window.(going downhill)

 

Stopped at the Tehachapi loves about 1130 cally time headed east. Was smoke still coming out of my ears????????

As I expected, my QC started beeping right on schedule... why are you sitting, why did you not make all your picks, ..... These small shippers are not open on Saturday afternoon and sundays that is why. Get a clue man, and check the facts before jumping down my throat...

Then my DM says to head for phoenix, he will repower me there, with a load going to Ontario CA for delivery on Tuesday... Ummmm I can't do 620 miles legally in California...so thats not gonna work....ok then just head to Ontario, and repower you their...Okay... no head out I40, and how far can you get, forget that, make the petro in Kingman AZ, and we will repower you there...

So here I am at the petro, awaiting the other truck, who may be here about midnight... 1060 miles away from the delivery, and 23 hours to get this load there... And I get a load to los Lunas.... yea me.... Any bets on getting me a load home from there???? You know to Wyoming!!!!Los Lunas to home is only 740 miles, I have deadheaded farther to get home at my expense, but I will give him a chance.....

snow balls chance in hell I get home with a load.

Smokr, got to love the logic of stevens at times... the KW dealer is good, even though it is not secure... but a spot close to home that you can see, will not do. Then they wonder why drivers will say they are parking at a secure lot, and just going home. Naw Stevens drivers would never do that.

 

Finally crawled out of the hole after being jerked around DFW for five days.It seems no one would tell me I had a 60 to 80 day safety talk due.As I was getting more and more pissed off by the day w/the crap showing up for my loads I finally said screw it Im coming to the yard.Only to see the lovely 60 to 80 day on my clearance sheet.WTF.They could have told me this 5 days earlier when I dropped a student off outside.--ck no,lets just let him get more pissed off by the day and cost him tons of money.This will make him really happy.My manager tells me its a glitch in the system.I got your glitch in the system.Anyway made it up,only now to be sitting on a target load thats gonna cost me two more days.Im having to fight for every mile I get these days.I didnt use to have to do that.Im worn down,Im tired of complaining.Maybe thats the problem.I told my manager today,know more,im just gonna see what happens.If it doesnt get any better,than I will make decisions accordingly.I think part of what it is is that one of my previous managers spoiled me,and Ive come to expect that.Cie la vie.

 

Im on the yard. Went through grad class today. Get truck assignment tomorrow morning, I cant wait :

Praying for an APU

 

The weather not cooperating? Ok that is understandable. Waiting for 24 hours at a shipper unaccaptable. Does stevens care, yeah right. For all those who have the ugly red buzzard on the door you know what i mean. Layover pay, yeah right. Weather shutdown pay dream on. If stevens were an artist they would be compared to picasso. #### good picture but a terrible reality. I appreciate the opportunity to work for a seemingly good company on the outside, but we all know the dark realities of the "king and his castle" scenario. I am an alliance driver who is going on 3 weeks now of barely seeing a profit. Do i pick up the phone and call around for work constantly, yes i do. Do i ever sit and wait for them to give me somthing to do, no way. This is a game in which you will be broke if you dont try to drum the work yourself.

Sincerely,

Frustrated stevens alliance driver....