They will take the little you have left and make you pennyless

Great *** company! Without trucks you wouldn't have food let alone toilet paper. Then how would you wipe your ***?

the only thing you can say is the truck I was in smelled like Puke, the trainer had the worst BO in the world ,I think he crapped his shorts one day on the road , I drove 500 miles with the heater on and the window down.what a slob.

Trainer stunk and cut huge *** in the cab in the winter , a real hick. must be a liberal they have no class.

You asked if I knew what it cost to train drivers? Gave two examples; gas and Insurance. 

First of all the most difficult aspect of Tractor trailer driving is backing. 

Do you know what the average # of hours needed to train on backing before you are considered ready for your road test? 

I had less than 2 hours. I even had to remind the head trainer that I hadn't been shown how to back up 3 days before my road test. 

For your information knockleheads, I passed on my 1st go. 

I barely had any constructive direction and I made it. 

Remember, I was just a different class.  

By the way, I don't have to respond to ignorant insultive comments from people with half baked education.

Can you imagine what it cost to train one student to drive. 

fuel???????? 

Insurance???

Wow! i went through that whole training at Stevens with a breeze. Everyone was fair. 

So what these quiters want is to learn to drive than quit, and expect to learn to drive for free.without paying the one year of driving. 

Go Greyhound, and leave the driving to us

one more thing.... 

The drivers that are being mistreated by the company, dispatchers, etc... it is because you did something wrong and got on their bad side. you yell at your dispatcher, refuse a load, dont "work" with them, constantly mess up, they will target you. do your job "right"..get the load there on-time:everytime, dont refuse the smallest load... you will be ok... but if you try to do the job "your" way... your screwed...

you know why they take 50 new students every week right?... 

 

Because some people are plan ***. cant figure out how to drive, cant pass the physical, lied on the application, owe child support so cant get the class A license and they dont "find-out" untill they are there at the DMV. The company figures atleast 14 out of that 50 will pass truck school. another half will fail or quit the on the road training. so in reality they are getting only about 30 new drivers a month. plus the high turn over rate of drivers that have been there awhile. trucking naturally has a high turn over. there are just dumb "drivers" out there. some good yes.. but seriously, you will hear good and bad about every trucking company in this country...

I'm the wife of a driver for Stevens and week after week, my husband has been dealing with lies and so many wrong-doings by this company. They will only contact him when they need something. When he needs to get a hold of them, there's no one there to answer. I now understand why so many people abandon their trucks and go home. The list of wrong-doings goes on and on.

Well, I dare say that you sir are as ignorant as you are arrogant. My education is not in question here really, is it? Absurd. 

 

YOU signed a contract. A contract, for those that were unsure, is an agreement between two parties in writing. This agreement assumes that both parties have read and understood the contents of said contract. It seems to me that you have failed on your end. It is clearly stated in the contract that you must be in the employ of Stevens Transport for one year or you MUST pay for the full amount of your training. I've read the contract. 

 

While I do feel sorry for you, it seems that you were mistaken in your assumptions. I for one finished training in advance of my expectations. While I no longer work for Stevens, I have since moved on to a better paying company, I stuck it out and with excellent performance and a polished reputation I did well there. 

 

You can call into question the level of my intelligence and education, but you don't know me. Frankly, I don't want you to. I am not interested in your phone number, and would recommend that you don't give it out on the internet. That's a reckless endeavor.  

 

My only advice to you is to seek a settlement with them or perhaps a payment plan. On the other hand, seriously, you may call them and tell them that you have reconsidered and would like to finish the training that you have paid for. You paid for it, they owe it to you as I see it.  

 

Otherwise, I wish you the best and hope that you do well in the future. No hard feelings, and remember ... read the contract next time before you sign it. And if ANYONE rushes you through reading it reconsider signing right then and there. You have the right to read anything you are asked to sign. You are one of many, but if you're going to be a truck driver ... as with any profession (including writing) ... you must pay your dues before you can even start the journey to where you want to be in life.