Stevens Transport aviary

Way to go Smoker! I will be looking for your truck out there!

 

Does anybody if Stevens allow for passengers

 

Congratulations Smokr I've been watching the shop pull letters off contractor trucks and prepping them for two weeks now. I hope when my training is done I get as lucky.

 

Congratulations, Smokr. I've been keeping up with the aviary, and it has been interesting. You are a lucky dog to have gotten a Pete 387 especially since it has an APU and inverter in it. I got assigned probably the nastiest truck on the yard, Truck #6703. The previous inhabitant had a cat, and I swear he never cleaned the truck out at all. Even after going through the detail shop, there were hairs and coke/coffee stains everywhere;the doors, the dash, the floorboard. I cleaned it up a hell lot more than detail did, I'll tell you that. I didn't complain about it though. I'm sure I could have ran it back through detail and the shop, but then I wouldn't have gotten out of there as fast as I did. I got my truck on Thursday and rolled out Friday afternoon. Plus, I got most of the cat/hair/funk smell out of it by smoking 2 packs of Marlboro reds a day and dousing it with Febreze and those stick-em-on gel air fresheners. Hopefully in a few weeks I'll get into Alliance and get my lease truck, then this APU-less Caterpillar no mpg gettin' T2000 will go on to another grad fleet person. I hope to get a Pete 387 with a Cummins ISX. The Pete's seats are just so much more comfortable than the T2000's, though I like the interior set up of the T2000 a bit more. I don't know how comfortable the T660 is, maybe TlaHeart can fill us in on that. Well here I sit at the Aurora,CO Flying J on Saturday night. I picked up a Tropicana load in the greater L.A. area Thursday evening, and this loads' first drop isn't until Monday AM. My Dm told me on Thursday to run it up to Salt Lake and that I'd get it repowered there. I did, sent in a repower request, and sat there from 6PM last night 'till 8AM this morning, no repower. So I rolled from Salt Lake to Denver. I've sent in another repower request. Surely someone is nearby that is out of hours that could sit on this load for a day. Anyone got any ideas?

 

Hi, Ive been thinking about stevens and i have a few questions what is there running area, is there any freight, how is the equipment (what is the speed of trucks, how is the atmosphere at stevens, the hometime, and the pay. I would greatly appreciate if someone can answer my questions. Thanks be safe and God Bless.

 

Delirious, in addition to what Smokr has said, I have found that the weekend dispatch crew is not nearly as effective as the normal weekday crew. That coupled with the endless hold time on the phone for things such as weather/safety talks can sometimes make for a very frustrating weekend.

As an example, my last trainer sent in a qualcomm message at 0830 on Sunday morning requesting the dispatcher call him. The phone call was not returned until well after 1800 that evening. In between that time,several hours were spent on the phone waiting for safety. The phone system repeatedly told him he was number 16 in line waiting to be answered. Needless to say the weather talk that should have happened in the morning did not happen until well into the evening.

I am not complaining about Stevens, however, the phone/communication system really needs an upgade.