I went with Averitt and it took me about 4 weeks to find out this was not a fit for me. If you're looking for "typical" truckload dry van, look elsewhere, Averitt will disappoint.

If you want to get home every weekend, and run minimal miles, and have to shift your 14 hour clock each week from daytime to nightime running (probably on Tue or Wed) this may be a great place for you.

They have no business in the truckload game, but I understand they need to be a "full service carrier". They don't have enough TL freight, especially in TX and surrounding states, and consequently, you will often find yourself MT early AM, and have to wait until 7:00 PM or so, for an LTL shuutle or relay, and have to have it 400-500 miles down the road by 3:00 AM. So the rest of your week is messed up for trying to get back onto a "normal" schedule and usually means you're home mid day Saturday, MAYBE in time to get a restart.

And the real problem is, I found that this is common, and they made no excuses for it and they do not like it when you complain about this happening (sitting from 8:00am to 7:00pm, 1 to 2 times per week, and then having to run and sit at all sorts of bizarre times the remainder of the week)

Also, if you truly like to run, you will have to get on part of a team, else they will not run you further than about 500 miles from your home terminal. And this is bad for multiple reasons.

If you do find yourself somewhere and you get a good dispatch, say 1,100 miles, and it could get you thru home for weekend and still deliver on time ... rest assured you will have to hand it off to someone else, even after waiting 4 hours at the shipper on Friday to get loaded at 6:00pm, 400 miles from home.

Their trucks (at least the TL ones) are set or are being set to about 64.5 MPH. You look at their website, and they seem one one way, but you sign on and find it's nothing like what you expected, and you realize there is a lot of stuff that they failed to mention in the pre-hire interview.

I generally do not like to bad mouth a company but I do feel certain aspects of the company need to be made known so perhaps others do not make the mistake I did in signing on with them. I don't feel my expectations are any different than the average driver, but I decided to cut my losses and get out early because I really could not not see anything getting better, especially based on their "oh well" reaction to my concerns.

 

Yup, they want "professional" looking drivers. They even want you to wear a uniform.