Swift...... I enjoy my job

This post alone shows you don't know much about Swift and the Mentor program...and the Lease program to boot. Perhaps instead of listening to a bunch of whiners that couldn't make it as a L/O or O/O with Swift, you should gather your pertinent information from the actual source...or even get your own contract and do some figures using accurate information. For 8 years I was L/O with Swift...was very happy with 850-1000 per week take home..(yes after expenses, all expenses) so I can vouch for Injuns figures, as I know she is a worker, not a talker...as for you toomanybikes...you are not good at "spinning" numbers or at auditing an expense account obviously...just another coprophagous sniveler I assume!

 

I'd like to discuss "spinning numbers". Let's take a look at this:

But what has me confused is that in your first post on the forum you said you got your CDL just prior to the beginning of the year 2009. So that would be around Nov or Dec of 2008. Which would mean you're soon to have held a CDL for 2 years not three.

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/the-welcome-wagon/76117-new-here.html


I'm just rather confused by it. Also, you didn't respond to the question of who you drive for. I take it that you don't drive for Swift but do have an intense wealth of knowledge and expertise concerning the company. Interesting.

 

Ms. Nana...2008 is a year, 2009 another year and now here we are in a third year 2010.

I don't think our friend here is counting years the same way we do, but rather, the way the guv'mint does. In other words, if it happened in December of a particular year, it was that year and holds the same weight as if it had happened in January.

But he doesn't understand my hard numbers either, even though I have broken them down into third-grade mathematics. And then did the math. And showed my work.

But I'm the dolt here. I'm the one who doesn't know what she's talking about.

Let's go have some pie....with ice cream...

 

Two years and few months with an official CDL. Just what does it matter? Just when do I round up or down according to you?

As in my introductory post I have been a diesel mechanic for years. But I guess I did not learn anything about the industry there. Nor coming from a family in the business.

I must have learned nothing from driving before there was a CDL. And that certainly does not count as experience. All the times I outlawed it for employers or myself without getting a ticket means nothing also.

Should I add my two years and a couple of months to 20 years as a mechanic or all the years growing up around the shop with my father.
What does that up to?

Try talking about my facts or figures and not trying making something out of nothing.

 

you should really grab a calculator the next time you try doing basic math. but 264 - 259 is 5000. lets just give you the benny of the doubt, and call it 5500. for 2 weeks....that is STILL only 2750/wk. Dunno where you get 4k/wk out of that.

 

Been driving for 2 yrs...was on a mentors truck before that. He ran wal-mart dedicated, and we got saturday and half of sunday off. so in 5.5 days the truck ran 6000mi EASY. It was some great experience for me. So i do have some "first hand knowledge". You're still wet behind the ears. You can tell the newbies anywhere....truck stops or terminals, cause they're the ones wearing the swift hats, have a swift backpack, swift shirts, buy anything and everything that says 'swift' on it. Thats all fine and dandy. I'll admit i have a few swift t-shirts, they are actually fairly good quality....but i wear them as under-shirts.

 

i even said it COULD be done by running 14 a day then taking a 34 after 5.5 days. I'm just saying i was calling BS because of the facts i hear about when talking with other swift drivers at terminals. I hear about drivers turning down 200-300 mi runs, then whine because they're only getting 1300 mi for the week. (i wonder why)...i very seldom turn down a load. i'm just as happy running 5 100 mi runs than i would be with 1 500 mi run. But in chatting with drivers, the average i hear drivers getting, is around 2300-2500. you did say you average 3000-4000 a week. In case you dont know what an average is, it means for a 3000-4000 week, some weeks you'll get 2500..and other weeks you'll get 5000? if the most you've ever seen was 4000mi in a week, but 'average 3000'....sorry hubba bubba, but you really cant claim "i average 4000 a week"....as much as your big head wants to believe it. Well, i guess you can believe everything or anything you want. its a free country. But i'll stay grounded in reality rather than inflate numbers just to sound more important or better than anybody else.

Don't worry...i'll have it checked out. I'll have the facts. Then, right or wrong, ill post what i find.

 

that is just totally funny. =)

but as far as what you said about being on a mentor's truck out of a DC. I will totally agree. my first mentor totally SUCKED. the 2nd mentor i got, was on a wal-mart DC account. I got more backs in one day than i did in a week on the 1st mentor's truck. All in all i think i didnt ever see no less than 3 backs a day. for 5 weeks....needless to say i was well clear of the '28 backs' swift required at the time.

 

absolutely.........not. I sit at his desk all the time. i cannot be responsible for what he brings up on his computer screen, that i just happen to be able to view.

 

sure sounds like it to me. I've given an example before about what i find out from chatting with other drivers. you know how many times i've seen a driver doing the 'chest pound' saying "i get 4000/wk" ?? zero. Why is that? because if they know its true, and are comfortable with themselves, they really dont care. If there are 3500-4000/wk average drivers i've sat around, they never 'brag' about it. they just keep it to themselves.