Stevens Transport

I don't know why so many people refuse to accept that training companies, by in large, are a STARTING point.
Most people come out of CDL school with a license and no experience. They have to start somewhere.
Most people leave a training company after a year or two because they have acheived what they need... training.
Now move on (hopefully to something better)

Some of us stay at these companies (I am one) because it fits our particular needs.
Is Stevens the best company out there? Of course not.
But I think they are amongst the best training companies out there.
There are thousands of drivers that began their career at Stevens and are where they're at now, due in part, to the training they gained at Stevens.
Remember....when you go to a training company, you are asking an employer to PAY YOU TO LEARN.
There are all kinds of costs to that, that must be recovered in some manner. One of those is to pay less than a comperable job at another company.
Yes, they hold hands. They micro manage...but that's what makes them a good training company.

I am amused at people that come back years later to bash the very company that gave them a start.
Given hind sight, most all of us would have done things differently in life.

I'm glad things are working out better for you Misfit. I am glad when any of my students move on to something that fits them better.

 

Well said Emul.

 

Tlea i dont think i said that you had disagreed nor do i recall nameing names?? if you felt that i was pointing you out thean i am sorry..and yes i did see that you said i was right about the trans flow point i had made..and you are right about JB hunt not taking me back in the day...But at the time i went to stevens like i said in a earlier post i had just moved to Oregon..witch meens i am not from there..also was looking for work...li DID NOT know the pros and cons..had i KNOWN that i would have done somthing difrent...like go through Knights.. Squire division..as i said b4 i had my cdl b4 going to stevens... i was not supposed to go through stevens school.. i was set to go to or1 not the schooling....the only reason i did not cut bait was the fact that i had bought a non-refundable plane tickit..to Dallas due to stevens wanting me to ride a bus from oregon to Dallas....after telling the recruiter i was going to buy the ticket she told me we were all set and to go a head and do it... 2 or 3 weeks later she called me and said thay wont take me unless i sign up for 1 year and go through there school...if i say no i have to eat the ticket..and start all over agen looking for work if i say yes i have to stay with them for a year..lol so i thought how bad can it be???it was prity bad!!! it was not till then did i realize that there was no minimum wage in trucking and i was stuck here making no money having to sell my car and max out my credit cards just to pay the bills..and when i say bills i dont meen rent i meen gas water ect...the rent got payed by my wife who was working on a horse ranch we were taking care of..rent for work! type thing...so the money came from me!!.. I did not like the fact that for the most part stevens would sell you on the varry best case scenario..when it was most of the time not like that at all.. i feal for the most part that thay take advantage of people that are new to this..and when it came time to be able to live thay tryed to jam me up!!if you dont know what i meen by that look at some of my earlyer posts.

 

I understand what you are saying..for the most part...and even agree with you on some points..how ever paying them less is difrent then misrepreentation..

the holding hands , micro manageing and even bad pay is to be expected..but thay dont tell you that you are going to pay to work for them.. thay told me thay pay to industry standard??? realy why is it then the outher places i worked pay me a lot closer to what i realy run??? in fact hunt normaly payes me more miles then i log? why is it when i worked for KNIGHT did i get payed for dentention at both shipper or reciver???? and why is it that when it comes time to get out of there thay try to keep you from the outher job?????

there training is not what i have the beef with.. and i have allready said it was good..


what i have the beef with was how thay treated me... gypped me on miles and outher pay and as well as duped me... and tryed to jam me up when i lleft then tryed to make me pay to leve by getting a lawyer and trying to say i did not compleet my year when i clearly did..

like i said i understand why you are here and its all good man you have nothing to worry about ..theres a sucker born every minute so stevens will be in business for a long time... i was once that sucker.

 

LOL i still dont have the required Experience??? Tell you what monkey pull out yr atlas and look at willow creek CA, Hoopa CA, Redway Ca, look at the roads and how meney 7 percent grades there on thos roads..as well as hwy 199, 299, and us101 from Cave Junction OR to all thos towns now i have been doing thos stores and back home every day monday -friday... thats my route...for the last year and yes we chain..how often do you drive roads like thos? lol

 

We require 5 years with a perfect record.

 

I do have the perfect record but if i had to go some where else and back OTR it would be to walmart..like i said i am in this for the money and from what i can see it would be the next step up from what i have now

 

Ive heard that WalMart is going downhill... Probably still better than most though.

 

sounds like celadon

 

Oh yeah, forgot the good part. I get 330 a day everyday, even the off days. $2310 a week.