Stevens Transport aviary

Well, we made it to Ontario. Deliver into Carson tomorrow morning, then pick up in the city and bound for Cedar Falls.
Ah! Target keeps calling.
Student got last mountain today. Has three regions, all mountains and 3400 miles...not bad for the first eight days.
Now to broker a load to Bahstan, head down the 95 and it's all just miles and days after that.
At the "Hilton East" if anyone around.

 

Congrats and good luck Shifty. Just be like a sponge and soak every thing up. Got my CDL today and graduate from Tri-State tomorrow. Received my pre-hire letter from Werner today so looks like I will go with them. Once I get my HAZMAT fingerprinting done on Monday and my place winterized during the week I'll be ready to go to orientation.

Lets see how many loads it will take you to get to Oregon.

 

Anyone heading out of southern Cali heading to Texas...? My time is up and if training has their way, ill be out here another 5-6 days...

 

What? no greyhound?

 

Pfft, they won't pay cause I'm only at 22 days. Quoting Scar Face, aka, Max Bronson, O2 is now 21 to 28! days.

I'm ready to but the ticket myself. I'm already 2 weeks behind schedule at haven't been home in 3 months. I'm at 19,000 miles in training and they are banking on a preplan but won't tell me where or when in Cali it loads. Could take us 2 days just to get out of here...

 

You might as well 'cool your jets'. Surprised you haven't learned yet that there is a lot of 'hurry up and wait' in the life of an OTR driver. Of course students don't usually get to see that side. Once you finish Grad you will be thrown into the 'real' world where you spend 33.5hrs at the meat patch waiting on your DLD (rarely the full 34hrs for a reset) or 2-3 DAYS chasing freight in Cali just to get to Kingman, repower, and head back in to repeat (when my hubby was running solo it usually took 3 weeks to break out of the 'loop')

And 3 months seems to be the average time spent out between home times, some manage to get home more often if they live along one of the major shipping lanes. BUT, it also seems as though your loads are dispatched to keep you as far from home as possible. Once again, while the hubby was solo and I was riding along, we passed through my home town at least once a month. After we started running as a team, we have been through maybe 3 times in the last 13 months.

Unfortunately. that's life. You make the best of the cards you are dealt. Good luck and God bless.

 

Who said anything about hurry up and wait...? Having spent the last 12 years on the other side of the desk, there are not many in my current shoes that understands the trucking world more than I do. I certainly not needing of cooled jets other than my pipes, ...but this is a family board. I'm a firm believer that everyone gets what they deserve but you have to be willing to work for it. I don't know what else I could show that the training department has done nothing to get me back from both phases of training other than the, let's see what happen method. You can sit back and take the cards your dealt approach and nothing wrong with that. I just believe that you can pick which cards your dealt when you're holding the deck...

Anyone else have over 23,000 miles to finish their training...? The ticket is $196 get me back 3 days late but they don't won't to pay for it. The training department hasn't even shown me that they care. Pfft...

 

Don't want to jump the gun but it appears that Max has lied to me a third time and after talking with Dave, I should have a flight out of Ontario...

 

Oh, I'm terribly sorry, I didn't know that you were the only student that they were dealing with at the moment.

And how you happen to think YOU are holding the deck?? Let's see... Stevens is training YOU to do a job, not the other way around. Stevens is the one that will assign YOU a truck, not the other way around. AND, Stevens is the one that will be assigning you loads as long as you remain employed with them, not the other way around. Seems like the one holding the cards here is Stevens Transport.

And could you clarify for me, one post you say you have 19,000 miles and this post you say you have 23,000. Have you just been driving around Cali while waiting on a load assignment, LOL.

BTW, I've been out here 3 years know, and I was just giving you a bit of advice from experience. Get to be too much of a 'squeaky wheel' with some people and see where you end up.

 

Jeez, what happened to the god bless...? I honestly think that you wanted to say #### you... I love truckers biatches that think they know everything about life because they have been driving for 3 years, pfft. Dunno why I didn't smell it a mile away...

I currently have 19,000 miles during training. If I was FORCED to stay out for another 5-6 day, I would have 23,000 miles to finish my training. Didn't know that truckers biatches can't use their imagination to fill in the captain obvious blanks...

I dunno, maybe I'm just judging you as much as you're judging me...? Gawd bless and be safe out there...