Stevens Transport reviews

Lack of pay! Low pay. Training drivers are NOT screened in any way to show they'd be a good trainer. I had a good trainer, my co driver not so lucky! He's had his life threatened, trainer refuses to let him sleep on the bottom bunk while team driving. Expects trainee to be a money farm and drive 11 hrs after 4 hrs fitful rest in the jump seat. Trainer has broken multiple laws with no reprisal after trainee reported him. They constantly pressure you to lease, but you only make a small amount more than fleet and that's due to no longer having medical insurance and only pays if you NEVER go home! Medical insurance is expensive and yet very few doctors accept it! Leasing only seems to pay if you become a trainer, which they push! Or like me, you go teams. I hope we do anyway. Very poor communication between days and nights/weekends. Between planners and DMS. The cdl school is a PUPPY MILL!! That you will have to pay off out of your already meager paycheck. Find your own cdl school!

Everything. I have nothing good to say about this company. No other driver ever seems to, either. In a nutshell, every cost is analyzed and a strategy developed to screw the driver and explain it away, no matter what the issue becomes. They will assign loads for which they are charging $3 to $4 per mile and get the truck to do 2,800 to 3,000 per week. That means Stevens will collect $9,000 to $12,000 for the service and pay the driver less than 10% and often less than 5%. Calculate the cost of fuel, equipment, overhead and everything else and you'll have a hard time getting to 50% of the freight charged to a customer, which means they make a profit of $5,000 to $7,000 per truck per week. You the driver are a dime a dozen and they do not give a rip if you leave, there's another sucker right behind you. You'll make about $30,000 your first year as a company driver, if you survive the intense pressure to sign a lease - which you should NOT, no matter WHAT - while they make a PROFIT of $70-80,000 from your work, AFTER ALL EXPENSES. If you leave, they will file a nasty, fraudulent item on a DAC report in retaliation and all of their competitors, all doing the same thing, will avoid you because you will be flagged as a non-sucker who can't be lied to and abused.