Stevens Transport aviary

The no pet policy makes sense considering how much foodstuffs/produce they move. Sure. But the papers I was sent when I first contacted Stevens had right on it, $500 deposit for pets on your truck for company drivers and you could bring your pet on your truck as soon as you were assigned one. There was also a paragraph saying the hotel allowed pets in your room for your schooling period, but while you were out on the road for the two OTR training periods you would have to find housing for your pet until you came back and got your own truck.
So that's why I said on the papers on the last day where you grade your experience with the training that the materials got a grade of D from me, and I commented that their paperwork was outdated quite often, contained numerous spelling errors and needed upgrading and updating.
I also mentioned that having secret qualifications was legal, but far from ethical.

 

Yes it does show how many different folks have power over you. And the departments at Stevens are truly independent of each other. I think I filled out the same papers four separate times. The criminal record sheet, application, policy acknowledgment, all that. Instead of running your first ones through a copy machine they have you spend time filling them all out again.

 

They didn't pay for any food for schooling time, but because we spent long days this week, 7am to 10pm, we got a ticket for lunch and another for dinner for a sandwich and a soda from the gut wagon for Monday, Tues and Wednesday. Then for Christmas day we got a $15 gift card for Golden Corral where it covered the holiday buffet and a drink. Then there is corn flakes or raisin bran cereal and milk with coffee or orange drink every morning at the hotel in the room where you wait for the van ride to the school. That breakfast is every school day.
As for me staying until Monday instead of only Saturday, I did ask right away when she said they would wait until Monday for me to get paperwork from back home and Stevens arranged for the hotel room for until then, and I'm guessing it will show up on my loan.

 

It probably will be. I won't mind a lot if it is, afterall, like I said, I have my CDL now and a pretty darned good bit of training.
They say they don't usually care about where the trainer is from as there isn't any reason for the trainer to be from anywhere near where you are from as you will be on the truck for a month without time off anyway. The trainer might take time off, but if he does Stevens puts you up in a hotel on them for those days anyway.
And thanks Screenman, I hope you have a good training experience and a good future driving as well as a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year too.