Think I have decided swift.

$995 up front with no obligations is a real good deal.

 

Check out ' Doc Watson ' on here, he's been with swift a few years, good stories about his journey, and he is in Virginia, his parents are in Richmond.

 

I passed Swifts Richmond academy. What kind of guy are you? A worker or you're lazy? I might be of help. If you're a worker don't go into otr or swift.

 

I work for swift on their toughest most back breaking dedicated account and I top out at 45k 70 hours a week with weekends off which is measly terrible money in the trucking world for my labors. No pay raise nothing. Is no moving up. A 10 year guy makes the same as me. I forgot to mention I also do some of Swifts most difficult driving. I'll be leaving soon so maybe I can help you set you're career straight. I sure as hell wish someone could have given me advice I could give you when I was a rook.

 

Go into LTL trucking. Old dominion,estes,abf,yrc,yellow,southeasternfl,
Fedex,ups,conway, all LTL. That's where I'm going and retiring. If you wanna make little money and hold a wheel all day then join swift and do otr. Swift will teach you how to drive a truck and be successful but don't be a fool. They want fools to run for low wages. I really have nothing bad to say about swift besides them not paying me for what I'm worth. All I'm saying is that with my work ethic and personality I will probably pull 60-70k in my first year alone at ltl and probably will be around 80k doing linehaul in my 3rd year. Swift will never pay me that. At most do a year at swift and learn how to drive and figure out what you want to do. You would struggle and probably even wreck the truck doing p&d as a rook. I'm used to it from running this dedicated. I know old dominion has a new driver program from certain out of pocket accredited schools. But the training I believe is a year long lol. Which is necessary. You'll see when you get out there. It's no joke and you will find yourself alone in tight bad places you need to get out of.

 

If you still want OTR after Swift, look at Abilene Motor Express right there in Richmond.
They hire new CDL grads.

 

I've heard abilene is a great company if you like OTR. I like my weekends off and hometime. Soon I'll be home every night lol. Making double the money in a day cab doing labor like I'm doing now. Until I run doubles and still home every night. Pick your poison. I did otr. It was really cool seeing the US in all the states. Once I did it I realized the cool factor was gone quick in a flash and I had to move on. It was sorta a vacation at first. I ran 2500 miles a week and made joke of money. Best advice I can give about trucking is go for what suits you best. Youll figure out quick if otr is for you or not when you get solo. If you want to be home go ltl or food service in a day cab. But it's labor. So if you're lazy and you want to be fat stay otr. Probably best you just run otr with swift and decide what you want to do. If you want to pass that Richmond school you need to be serious. I saw a lot of guys fail over there. They didn't take it serious. Good luck man!

 

Yes, LTL, food service or even tankers for home every day. I tried that and it wasn't for me, but that's just me. OTR for the long term isn't for everyone, but it's OK for some of us. I made $65K doing OTR; some do less, some do more.