Can I get a bit of advice?

i've had the double/triple endorsement and have only pulled doubles once. was already set up at swift dropyard,so i just drove it to scalehouse qwhere they said it was over 14 ft over the drive. said if i tok it back, they wouldnt rite me up lol

 

My take on advice is quite a different route.

Forget the Swift lease or any other lease. They are primarily scams that just ruin your life and leave you with less money and more work.

Keep the apartment and start looking for another job. I don't know exactly where you live but at 9 months, 1 year of experience coming up there are likely much better jobs out there for you than Swift. The apartment will give you a good home base to work out of and be necessary for a good local job!

Forget about Swift Flatbed. Swift only pays like $23 for tarping and strapping and poverty wages for a lot of work. Most companies pay much better than that!

Learning OTR is admirable but this is the time of year OTR sucks for Swift; low miles lots of unpaid layover. Heavy-Haul allows you much more free time and a consistant home base for job searching. You have some seniority in Heavy-Haul so they will not dump on you as bad as OTR Swift will at this time.

If you doubt you 0TR trip planning ability it is not a good time to take on a new skill like flatbed.

Like all Swift training, flatbed training will be no benefit to any other company;Swift just has little respect in the industry. If you want to say you did flatbed at Swift no one will check and if they did Swift will not respond. That is the bottom line truth; no one will call Swift and hold online for hours just to hear "no comment." They will also force you to take their training anyway; so no benefit.

Do what you want. That is my advice and I have been there.

 

@ Rick Rox. Good luck getting any truck right now with Swift let alone a new one. Freight is slow and there is NO shortage of drivers in this company right now like people always talk about. They don't have enough trucks for everyone. They're running dozens of people through their schools every week and no trucks to give them. Hopefully they get you a hotel room but knowing Swift they'll try to get you to sleep in someone elses truck that's getting worked on. They did that to me 3 weeks ago. I told them no thanks, I'll buy my own hotel room. I was stranded in Lathrop because they couldn't get me to the nearest terminal with an available truck that day, 220 miles from home and they wouldn't even spend $50 on a hotel room. And they wonder why their turnover is 94%. (Not a joke, I saw their board) They're ridiculously cheap for such a large company. Ended up with a 5 year old Columbia with 472k. Stuck in Phoenix right now with 100 other drivers waiting on freight. Most of the s*** I heard about Swift is true. I'm getting out ASAP.

 

There are plenty of flatbed trucks. Might be a Columbia but it's a truck. Also flatbed freight is not slow. I have been babying my 70 clock for the last 3 weeks running ~8 per day because there is no chance for a 34, run run run.

 

Nice! 23:57 is the indefinite PTA they won't plan you with that.

 

Really?
I haven't seen it.

I'm running on recap, and today I had 13 minutes left on my 70.
I have 11 coming in tomorrow with 520 miles to my destination.

I have not seen the 'slow time of year' yet.
Swift just keeps sending me loads that max me out on my hours.

The only slow down I have experienced has been due to weather, and the shut downs it has imposed on me.
But when I get finished with a load I've had at least 1 pplan waiting for me. This time it was two plans stacked within two minutes.