Stevens Transport

My fiance went to Stevens Transport school in September 2011. Everything went as expected and after his training was over he was assigned a truck. The pay was pretty low. 26 cents a mile. He averaged about 300 to 400 a week after they deducted everything. He was told that alliance would be a way to make more money. In May 2012 he signed a lease paying 570 a week. Keep in mind this was one of the cheapest truck payments available. The first month he made 3000. This was with 4 discounted truck payments. Then came June...his checks average 40 to 50 a week after truck payments and gas and everything else that is taken out. Then in August his checks were in the negative. He finally gave up last week and quit. He started orientation at JB Hunt today with a pay of .39 cents per mile. Praying all goes well!

 

Trade in one giant mistake for another, such is the fuel that drives the truckload megas...

 

Then he wasn't doing what he should have been doing.

 

He was only getting about 2000 miles a week. He is a hard worker and that wasn't his fault.

 

thats the way them co's suck yu in oh yu can make more leasing put you in a trk let you take home some money 1st and 2nd month then bam they start bustin you chops on everything yu pay all expenses when you lose your butt at home they take the trk back and lease it to some other pour sucker most all them so called lease purch. co's i dont't call them helpin people just robbery with different name they don't care if yu make or not gettin there old junk trks paid for thats it!!!!

 

never really heard of anybody gettin there trk paid out
at stevens there a joke get trained and move on to better co. a steppin stone outfit thats all they are!!!

 

As has been stated here before, Stevens does not do Lease-Purchase. They do straight up leases. You sign a lease for X number of months and at the end of the lease, you turn the truck back to Stevens. It is really more like renting, but you pay the maint. costs.
You can have it put in your lease the option to purchase the truck at lease end at a specified cost. But not many choose this option.

 

dont let all the new trk hype suck yu in there pretty an nice but when them payments come around and yu get behind and no check for a month you'll see how nice they are always goin home broke and losin stuff how nice is that trk now???

 

If you have no check and you're "losin stuff" for a month it's more a reflection on the drivers failure to properly understand and run a successful small business. The majority of the time a company driver with no previous business manager/owner experience will fail in a truck lease. If a major part of your decision to sign a legally binding contract is the pretty new truck parked outside I have some beach front property in South Dakota I'd like to sell ya.

 

Work smarter, not harder. Being a hard worker has little to do with it. There are things a person needs to understand to run a business properly.