Stevens Transport - Dallas, Tx.

do yourself a favor and head to the oil field. you can make over 60k your first year. i took home over 60k in my first 10 months (AFTER taxes). and that's not uncommon by any means. check out the Oilfield Trucking forum here or pm me for advice if ya like

honestly i don't know why every new driver isn't headed for the field

 

Everyone is entitled to their opinion but it's hard to takes anyone seriously when the sum total of their argument is: "They suck. Work for a better company." Great but why does it suck? Who is better and why? The claims without any facts are without merritt. I could say the exact same thing about working for Boeing yet I have never worked for them or the industry.

 

well after dozens of pages full of specific gripes about this company all over this board for years, it has become common knowledge to some that Stevens is no good. Just read the first page of this thread (granted, that was years ago). So it has become a natural response to just say "stevens sucks, work for a better company" when people ask about them here. Just like if someone were to post a thread saying "I'm leaning towards C.R. England, what do you guys think?" everyone would chime in saying Hell no CRE is terrible don't work there, despite none of them having worked there

i have no idea what Stevens is actually like today, but i have read a LOT about them on this board, and i am learning towards believing the negative things i have read about them, which far outweigh the positive. the only positive thing i ever read about them is their trucks are pretty nice and new for the most part, and that they offer good training. other than that you'll find a long list of complaints

 

And Stevens is a training company, and they do that.

There is no such thing a FREE training, and many of the complaints are from people who took the company sponsored training, and then did not live up to their contract, of indentured servitude.

 

Because they've driven through Odessa and have seen what a hole it had become and decide they want no part of it.

 

Training company or not with so many pages of bad stuff why anybody would want to waste any time working there is beyond me. When was the last pay increase for drivers there? Why do they base part of their revenue on government welfare? Until they change their policies NOBODY should waste their time there.

 

Compare Stevens pay to other companies that train... they all pay the same, and since there are hundreds of people each week lining up at the doors of all the training companies, why should they pay more? Supply of people wanting to be drivers far exceed the need for drivers.

yep 167 pages of bad.....

while the aviary section one has 961 pages, and the current aviary thread has 161 pages of what stevens is all about.

 

Stevens is not perfect and neither are the rest of the training companies. As long as the government pays these companies more to train than to deliver freight drivers will be disposable. If you can find a company that will hire you and train you to be with them for the long haul you are lucky or you have connections. For the rest of us we have to find the training company that suits you best.

 

Boy were you led astray.they do not give you all the miles you want,they are lieing pieces of crap,i am still driving for this bull crap company until i can hook up with another company that is not this corupt to thier drivers

 

Because they have a stellar training reputation, there is some baby-sitting and hand-holding during the 1st yr if a new driver needs it.

Yes, they give brand new trucks to you after your 1st yr, which is a GREAT enticement and may be the only time in our careers that many of us will get to experience a brand-new, hot off the show room floor truck (human nature being what it is, that would keep most w/Stevens for quite a bit longer).

The compliance and safety departments are separate from dispatch and planning, which prevents a conflict of interest and I know not all carriers have this setup.

There are so many genuinely nice people that work for Stevens, so one doesn't have a yard mechanic or a fuel dept person beating you down and stealing your self-confidence and making you feel less-than.

On, and on, and on...

The training is not for everyone. Neither is being on regular fleet for some.

Some of you want what you want when you want it, and it's too bad that that is your worldview.

Sometimes floating downstream for a while gives you the fortitude to fight the current.
But if you spend your whole life swimming upstream, you will have a very miserable, short life.
Ask any salmon.