Swift Mentor program out of Lewiston

Glad you got a good mentor!!! Its a Marine thing lol and one thing theres no such thing as a former Marine......Semper Fi.

 

Great to hear! One of my buds had an ex military mentor who was a lunatic. Wouldn't allow A/C usage in Arizona and left him at a truck stop for four and a half days while he went on hometime in Yuma. Did I mention he took the keys too and it was like 150 degrees inside the truck! It's really the luck of the draw. I'll be headed to swift most likely some time soon, as my LTL contract expires in a couple of weeks. Hopefully I'll be as lucky as you...

 

wow, thats the mentor i want

 

Make sure you let the mentor program heads aware of this mentor. Truly quality mentors who understand the personal side and the concerns others at home have (especially where new drivers are concerned), in addition to the trucking side are far and few between. IMO, there's three quality levels of mentors and the top level are probably less than 10% but should be well compensated to keep them doing the job because mentoring well requires a LOT of special skills, talents, and traits.

I hope everything works out well. it's tough the first few Christmases away from home for all concerned but you just have to suck it up. Hopefully you'll manage to get home near Christmas if for even only a few hours.

 

Agreed. A great trainer creates an exceptional student. Exceptional students make their companies $$$. ###### trainers make bitter students. Bitter students quit pre maturely with 3-5 grand worth of debt to be collected. You'd think recognizing and compensating good trainers would be priority one, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Another one of those great trucking industry mysteries I guess...