New Girl
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Woo-HOO! Welcome to Trucking Truth ...Trish!!
I've heard great things about Stevens and what a gutsy lady you are!
You'll be in Denver too! Are you totally stoked to start your new life or what?
-mountain girl
Hi Trish and welcome!
Denver huh? My little ones live in Colorado Springs with their mama. I will be surprising them with a visit later this week.
Anyway, have fun in school easing through it thanks to the High Road.
Denver huh? My little ones live in Colorado Springs with their mama. I will be surprising them with a visit later this week.
-RT
It's cool here.
-mountain girl
Hey Trish, welcome to the forum! I think you'll find everyone here to be very helpful to you as they have been to me. Good luck at school!
Denver huh? My little ones live in Colorado Springs with their mama. I will be surprising them with a visit later this week.
-RT
It's cool here.
-mountain girl
By cool you mean... Weather?
Wow, thanks for the big welcome! (I was off line for a couple days, sorry to take so long answering!) Yes, I'm totally excited! I've been staying with a friend and I can see I-25 from her house ... I watch the trucks go by and imagine driving one of them! It's good to hear Stevens has a good rep. Knight was my first choice but they haven't returned my calls ... so I'm going to go with the idea that I'm meant to be with Stevens.
Wow, thanks for the big welcome! (I was off line for a couple days, sorry to take so long answering!) Yes, I'm totally excited! I've been staying with a friend and I can see I-25 from her house ... I watch the trucks go by and imagine driving one of them! It's good to hear Stevens has a good rep. Knight was my first choice but they haven't returned my calls ... so I'm going to go with the idea that I'm meant to be with Stevens.
Please keep us up to date on Stevens. There are on my consideration list along with Roehl and US Xpress. Where I live, Stevens does a lot of regional stuff.
Regional:
Regional Route
Usually refers to a driver hauling freight within one particular region of the country. You might be in the "Southeast Regional Division" or "Midwest Regional". Regional route drivers often get home on the weekends which is one of the main appeals for this type of route.
Denver huh? My little ones live in Colorado Springs with their mama. I will be surprising them with a visit later this week.
-RT
It's cool here.
-mountain girl
By cool you mean... Weather?
-RT
It's a cool place to live and would be cool to call my "home base" were I OTR.
-mountain girl
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
Welcome aboard Trish!
Hey, don't wait on companies to call you. Call them and be persistent about it. Believe me, they won't look at you as a pest. Recruiters get paid a commission of sorts at most companies so they're looking for the most likely candidates. If you show them you're really serious about getting your career going they'll be more willing to work with you. Otherwise your application might just sit on a pile collecting dust.
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Hey, I posted this in the Ladies section, but want to say hi to the guys too!
I love this site and really appreciate all the info and support here! My name is Trish and I'm studying for my CDL now (thanks Brett for The High Road!) ... just signed up with Stevens Transport for school in Denver in October. Still not 100% sure about this decision but the more I learn about this career and talk to people, the more excited I get. I'm 47, newly "single" again and loving it ... looking forward to getting paid to see this beautiful country. Just wanted to say hi and thanks for the community on this site!
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