I graduated from commercial driving school and went to work for swift. They would pay $150 a month towards my tuition for driving school. I went into the otr position and was told i would average 2500-2800 miles a week. I was told by the recruiter that swift would find a mentor / trainer that lives ...
On september I attended and completed Swifts truck driving training course, I did everything that they asked of me. The company promised to hire me when I first attended the course, saying that anyone that would not be hirable would be sent home within the first three days. After the 3 weeks of ...
As a company driver, if your idle rate is not under 25% your tuck will be turned down to 60 mph, it does not matter what the weather conditions are like or if you are stuck waiting for a load. Swift claims that all their loads that are dispatched to a driver are planned according to 50mph, this is ...
Hi i am a driver for Swift Transportation i am not new in the trucking bissness i have been driving 11 years OTR i have been with Swift for about 3 months thy can not get the miles right on what a driver does, or (Dir), on loads for pick up and (Del)... I got a load that was saying on the miles 837 ...
D (I only lived in this area for 4yrs..) Iwas told Iwas stupid and knew nothing. Once again I tried to get off the truck, but just hang in there it's your 3rd. Week already. No such luck. Things only got worse. Iwas told I could no longer smoke, but he could smoke his nasy little cigars. Hang in ...
Swift Transportation Recruiters for Schooling I was going to leave tomorrow on Tuesday August 28th for Swift transportations schooling they call the academy; but small clues were eating away on me about the practices going on with several recruiters I dealt with at Swift that didn't add up. This is ...