Swift Average Miles Per Week

Its better to ask forgiveness then permission.

I tend to do what I want until they tell me I cant.

 

He wasn't saying that you don't have to log on duty, DOT does not require a specific time. Legally you can log a 5 min pretrip. I would advise against it as it takes longer than that to inspect your rig, but there is no time requirement per the law. Swift policy is 15 min and that probably originates from the paper log days when that was the minimum time you could log on paper.

 

Swift is a great company. I'm currently waiting to hit the road with mentor. It's crazy that this was the last one to even consider..... And the reality is its one of the Best.

I only considered them because of the Veterans advertisements.... And the recruiters worked hard to mess that up.

Things lined up correctly, and I could not be happier.

The recruiters are not very well trained, and that's a huge disservice to the company..... As it creates so much undeserved distrust.

 

PS.

This thread should be stcky!
Great info for us noobs!

 

MM3, you are too new to know if you think Swift is a great company.

 

I'm somewhere in MO at a Pilot, on MO 13.
This load has way too much time on it, but with things being slow for everyone I guess I'm lucky to have that much.
Even Landstar is seeing lower than normal freight for this time of year. I was talking to one of their drivers here.

Just after I pulled in a state trooper pulled to the back of my trailer.
I finished my call with my DM and went in to scan my trips, and the trooper pulled up to talk with me.
He had checked the plate number of my trailer, and I was not who he was looking for.
Who he was looking for was a Swift driver with damage to the back of the trailer, last seen in a group of 5 Swifties running north on MO 13.
I was going south. And I never run in a pack.
I didn't ask for details, but it seems like a Swift backed into something/someone and then left the scene.
The Landstar guy mentioned that group of trucks leaving shortly before I got there when I told him why the trooper had spoken to me.

He also mentioned that one of them had locked themselves out of the truck at the fuel island.
How smart is it to lock yourself out of your own truck?

Or to leave the scene of an accident that caused damage to the back of your trailer, because that kind of hit is not easy to miss.
A preventable backing accident is far better than a hit and run.
One will get you in a little trouble, but the other can land you in jail!

 

As to 'average miles per week', there isn't any such thing unless you do an average of a years time.
Some weeks will be over 3k, while others can be only 1.
Too many variables on a week to week basis.

 

Yeah it varies. I just sat at the terminal in Kansas from Friday night till Monday morning. The really crap thing is the planers know the real DMs are not at work on the weekends so if you do not have loads though the weekend you will be screwed more often then not.

Lucky for me my DM is awesome and found me 1600 miles that I can do before the pay week ends to salvage my week

 

As of right now my average up to April 30th was 2671 so not to bad. But like @Moosetek13 said to many variables for over the road to get same week after week.