swift... well it's mentoring system.

chefbrian...well said sir!!

op shouldnt complain too much about being on driveline since he gets paid more for driving than being on on duty. and will get done faster(if he'd stayed) and got into his own truck. hopefully you have better luck with another company...if you last that long

also...backing is thee hardest thing you'll do in a truck. i've been driving trucks since '97 and still have bad days backing. been with swift for 1.5 years now and have had no serious issuew. swift's not perfect.. but no companies are. anyways good luck

 

I don't understand why a new driver bounces from one training company to another. Training companies just use new drivers for teaming and use that as "training."

Why not go with a company that has a minimum of training with another driver. Even most experienced drivers sometimes ride with another driver for a few days just to learn the companies policies, customers, or different type of equipment than they're used to. This weeks/months stuff is for amatures with no self confidence.

 

yeah...op states he had 120 hrs which is half way. could've asked for another trainer to finish up. swift will work with him.

 

Agreed...but why not just stick out what you agreed/promised to do? Is it so hard these days to keep your word? I wish my granddad was still alive...he had an artificial club foot and he would give you a good kick with it when he thought it was appropriate. Lord knows...I was on the receiving end of that a couple of times. He really gave it to me when I was 15 yrs. old and took his dump truck out to steal a bunch of railroad ties. But more importantly, he taught me to do what I said I would do. Too many people want to cry and carry on about this and that...hell my German Shepherd is better suited to driving a truck than some of these little pukes pissing/moaning in these forums.

 

Similar to the other post, I was also lucky when I was a newbie w/ Swift. I had a great trainer! I heard many a horror story with mentors and trainees not just with Swift. It can be the same way with any mentoring program, If the Trainer/mentor doesnt care about the trainees success then they arnt Mentor material!
My mentor told me something to the effect of ..."One day you will be driving on your own and possibly be on the same road as my family so I want to know you're a good driver". If all mentors thought like this, I am sure they would be a bit more motivated to actually TRAIN for success.

 

Oh please Madam...First off, YOU didn't pay $7,000 on your GI Bill...The people of the United States paid that to thank you for your service and if you in turn blew that opportunity off because you couldn't handle a company like Swift (or any trucking company really) then to be honest with you I question whether you really were a soldier, sailor or airman.

Come on? Let's be realistic here. You have come into this forum and started a thread bashing your education at what amounts to nothing more than a starting company and you are using the excuses that your trainer was fat and couldn't back up his rig. What exactly did you learn in the military? Good grief, I don't know where you went to the military, and frankly I have doubts that you did...but I remember seeing people treated worse on the bus to the induction center before they were even sworn in than that would never come into this forum and whine and cry about how they were treated at a trucking company post military service.

Come on...if you were in the military, a couple of weeks in a trainer truck would be a walk in the park as opposed to boot training or even active duty. Who are you trying to fool here?

And by the way...in today's military, service members are required to pass tests that are almost equivalent to college entrance exams. They have to prove that they are literate enough to be in the service. Looking at your posts...how in the world did you ever pull those tests off?

 

op looking to blame others. more to his story than he is saying.

 

like em or not there is still great opportunity for inexperienced drivers to get started with big carriers.
i see alot of them on here that dont approve of how the 10000 truck company runs its business.
they did not know they would have to deal with every kind of person there is. they did not expect the stress, bad weather. low tolerance for damage. and all the other demands on them
i know i went through all that and decided on day one quitting, wrecking and failure is not a option

 

If his problem wasn't getting addressed..he should have went to the real management.
Go above the DM/Dispatcher or whatever.