I'm calling bulls**t :dung: on Steven's Transport.

We had recruiter in class today telling us how Steven's Transport was the best company to go work for :roll: .

He was telling us they have a driver getting 4500 miles a week :shock:.
4500 miles...whatever :roll:

Then he started pushing their Lease-Purchase program at us. A responsible company would not puch that program at a rookie driver with only 45 days behind him.
He then started to tell us that one of their drivers made $275,000 last year :roll: . Oh when will the bulls**t :dung: end?

I wonder what the school's staff will say when I tell them about the recruiter pushing the lease-purchase program at us? Which is a BIG no no where I am. That's why JB Hunt isn't allowed on the property 8)

This guy kept conterdicting himself every 5 minutes.

Anyone have any experience with this company. I was going to apply with them, but their recruiter scared me off 8)

 

Not technically impossible in the recruiters mind, because 70 hours at 65 miles per hour is 4550 miles. I highly doubt that you could get even close to that at Stevens. They run refers I think?

A fleece-purchase operator running team could take in $275,000 gross before expenses. Each driver might get to keep five grand after expenses, maybe. :shock:

 

The only way remotely possible to run 4500 miles a week as a solo driver would be 100% drop an hook with no more than 15 minutes in between loads and really long runs where you could keep your average speed up to 65 +

And even if you COULD do that, you could not do it consistently every week without being illegal. If you ran into your 70 one week, your 34 hour restart would just take a chunk out of the next week.

Im sure out of all the bottom-feeder companies out there, Steven's aint the worst one, and if I were forced to go with a company like that I think I would rather go with them instead of Werner, Swift, CRE, JB, etc.

But it aint the first time I've heard of a recruiter that come by and say some BS that actually backfires and makes the company look worse than it is.

Of all the crap we've heard out here about Steven's pretty much the worst of it was from people that werent happy about the way they handled their school / orientation, but if you got your CDL from somewhere else and dont need their indentured servant program, its probably not a totally bad deal.

 

4500 miles a week solo? I highly doubit it. Now, you may get that if you're a lease operator/trainer and don't mind running teams with some noob. Not to mention never going home unless you want to owe the company money.

Tyson is their biggest customer. Most of time you will be hauling Tyson product. Here's the thing, Tyson will hire students out of certain schools. If you qualify go to Tyson and make a lot more money starting off.

 

3500 a week is possible and doable if its drop and hook, 4500 is VERY easy to obtain...as a team. As far as the $275,000...hahahha, I'd laugh in his face. A team operation can run probably 220,000 miles driving hardcore and doing favors for the dispatcher. Keep in mind, they pay less than $1 a mile as well, but as long as drivers get a Kenworth they are happy :shock:

 

Sorry to disagree Banshee, but 70 working hours plus a 34 hour reset is doable every 6 days. If you come on duty at midnight monday after a 34 hour reset and you work on-duty/driving 14 hours and off duty 10 hours in every 24 hour period. 14 on Monday, 14 on Tuesday, 14 on Wednesday, 14 on Thursday, 14 on Friday for a total of 70 hours. Take the 34 hour reset from 2 pm Friday until 11:59 pm Saturday. This gives you the ability to work another 14 hours on Sunday. This gives you 66 driving hours and 18 on duty not driving hours per week every week in theory. If you want hometime thrown in there randomly it will throw off these numbers. This also depends on having the available miles and loads to make this work.

 

Oh come on. Who in there right mind would even attempt to drive like that. It's suicide.

 

The recruiter seemed like a used car salesman :evil:

I've written off Steven's completely now :wink:

 

Rawlco I hate to argue with you, as you are clearly much much more experienced in this than I am, and I whole-heartedly respect that, but even managing your schedule as you have suggested would require an average speed in excess of 68 miles an hour during that period of time in order to hit that 4500 miles. I will contend that if it is possible, it is not possible totally legal.

 

i got 4100 miles one week at PAM and as i recall i didn't think it was that hard.but you will need to take a restart into the next week if you're going to stay on the road.