Life and times at swift...the good the bad and everything in between

MRTWEETY · Dec 8, 2011

LadyTrucker99 said: ↑

Mrtweety, your a funny guy--great updates though. Good luck on your mentor process. I will be taking the class too so i can train my son if he makes it through camp millington. LOL They say thats a tough place. I enjoy your posts--I am with you. My miles are out the roof too..some small some big..sometimes you gotta take whatever keeps you moving or what you can with the hours you have to work with. I also run off my hours coming back...so sometimes you do what you gotta do.

From my experience, If you go home around tuesdays--it dont hurt paycheck as much due to the fact that it spreads over 2 paychecks--fyi. If i go home on weekends it kills me that first week back out..so since i dont desire the need to be home on a weekend , I normally try to go home during the middle of week so i dont have to cry when i see that check. LOL

I am outta greer also and my miles are exploding...i have a great dm and i get tons of miles...last 5 weeks i only had 1 week less than 3200 miles and that was week of my hometime. Keep us updated.

Good luck!
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Nice to meet you ladyt ill try out taking my hometime during the week, to see how that works out. Good luck to your son

MRTWEETY · Dec 12, 2011

whats good everybody,
Nothing eventful happened these last few days. final made me run late and made me mess up my reset, by making me wait for an MT. I sure wasn't gonna play the " find the MT game". And finally finally finally I'm OFFICIALLY a mentor...

Word,
MRTWEETY

Tapeworm · Dec 12, 2011

Congrats Tweety!

Zoltan1a · Dec 12, 2011

MRTWEETY said: ↑

Hey guys,
After I finished posting my update last night, I got a call from my boy "C". We went to orientation together, he's spanking new to trucking, and had a bit of a rough time with his mentor. Nothing serious though, just personality differences. When he got his own truck, I told him to call me at anytime if he had any questions. The force is strong within this one.
Me: Hey dude, what's good?
C: Hey man, I'm over here in P&G, in PA...This place is a nightmare, I ran out of hours looking for my loaded, everybody here is out out of hours, there's like 20 trucks. It took me an hour to park my empty, cuz there's no lines, all the trailers are crooked.
Me: P&G?...whats the address.
C: Blah
Me: Oh! that's where i'm going tommorrow. I pick up there and deliver in Phillipsburg, NJ, at shop rite.
C: Don't use the navigation, it wont find the address.
Me: Word?, alright, thanks buddy. Talk to you later. click
I make a mental note to wake up earlier, just in case. I can't mess this up, I got just enough hours to pickup, deliver, and get home. Gotta keep it military with these elogs.
I wake up this morning having had a nightmare with the walking dead. I dreamed I opened the curtains, and they were standing all around the truck trying to get in, creepy. I peek out just to make sure it really was a dream. No walking dead...good.
Get out, do the preliminaries. I'm inspecting the trailer lights when I catch movement out the corner of my eye. It's pitch black. I freeze. I see a shadow moving. It move to the light. I tense up. I realize it's a person, another driver actually.
Driver: Hey, sorry to bother you. You wouldn't happen to have any jumper cables would you?
Me: You scared the hell out of me, nah dog sorry.
Driver: My truck wont start, and my company says they can't get anyone out here right now.
Me: I feel for you brother, knock on some trucks, somebody has to have some.
Driver: I'll just have to wait i guess, I don't want to wake anybody up.
He looks frustrated, I feel bad for him. I pull out, get the truck straight, and stop. Sent mac 23 ( tweety advise: Use mac 23 when the navigation acts up, usually the directions are easy to follow and dead on...usually). Double checked my map, took off. Mac 23 said 5 lights and make a left, so i start counting after I pass the city. 1.....2 lights..............................................................................................4 lights, no wait 3?, dam i lost count. I have to many numbers in my head already ( trailer, truck, driver code, etc, etc) I pull over, put my flashers on. The shoulder is just wide enough for the truck, so i move a little more to the right, my right side is on the grass a little. I think I'm good there. I call C to see if he can guide me in. He doesn't answer. I guess i'm on my own. Please God, no dead end roads today. I wait for the traffic to clear, put the truck in gear, and turn the steering wheel to the left. It's not moving, I think i'm stuck on the grass. Maaaaannnnnn, I stop. put the dif lock on, and try again. Nothing. I start sweating bullets, just when I'm about to go home. I'm not giving up. I straighten the steering wheel. Boom, I'm moving, I sigh,never again will I park on the side of the road. Further up the road I find the place. The navigation was leading me straight to it. I proceed to check in and drop my MT. Now the hunt begins for the loaded. The lady at the window said lot E. I went up and down that row 5 times with no success. I LOOKED EVERY WHERE FOR 40 MINUTES, TRAILER BY BLOODY TRAILER. I finally found it parked against the loading docks, not docked, just parked against the wall. I hook, and off we go. The roads up here were wet, and it's still raining. I know i'm gonna be late. I call the terminal and explain the situation. The DM (not mine) makes a notation on the screen, and tells me "your good MRTWEETY". I say thank you and hang up. I get to the shopright. The guy says to back it in and drop it. Drop it? My load info says LIVE UNLOAD. I double check with my DM. He says it's fine, and bobtail home. He set my PTA for the 27th 08:00. Now I'm happy. I make a right out of the shopright and get lost for 20minutes. I ended up in easton, PA for some reason (see bluebonn, even I get lost here...and I live here lol). Get to the Pilot on exit 7 and scan my paperwork. Get to where I park my truck, and gather my stuff, while I wait for my uncle to come pick me up. Lost my car last year when I became unemployed, before I went to driving school. A month later we found out we were pregnant with my daughter. No gifts under the christmas tree either....well there was one...my beautiful daughter. I'm doing the books while I wait. I made $1002.63 for the paycheck on the 29th. MY first thousand dollar check in my trucking career, the first one in my life. It took me 6 months to achieve this. It was the first goal I set for myself when I started driving. And since this is thanksgiving I'd like to give my fellow drivers a quote from my favorite book.

"The moments that define you are not those when you're living the good life. but rather those times when you are on your knees, broken, and you want to give up.That is when you decide. -9 ball-

Happy thanksgiving everybody,
MRTWEETY
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Was this over a two week period the $1000?

MRTWEETY · Dec 13, 2011

Zoltan1a said: ↑

Was this over a two week period the $1000?
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Nope, ONE full week of work.

Nighthaul · Dec 14, 2011

whats ur average pay check a week more then 650 ? and whats ur hometime are u off a full 2 days a week or just ur reset?

xpiscott · Dec 15, 2011

Nice posts MrT. I am currently in a CDL school and am seriously considering Swift. It sounds like a good company. Anybody out there from the southeast working for Swift? Not looking to hijack the thread or anything so just PM me if you like. Glad to hear you are having such a good time MrT. Good luck and be safe out there.

MRTWEETY · Dec 15, 2011

hey guys,
I'm still around, been really busy with my first student. This mini phone isn't really helping me update my threads the way I like. Their gonna be shorter for a wile, til I get a laptop. I'M SOOORRY MY FINGERS CAN'T TEXT THAT FAST. BUT EVERYTHING IS GOING GOOD.

tweet tweet,
MRTWEETY

MRTWEETY · Dec 15, 2011

Nighthaul said: ↑

whats ur average pay check a week more then 650 ? and whats ur hometime are u off a full 2 days a week or just ur reset?
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Yes, it's more than $650 gross. I'm out for 3 weeks at a time and home for 3 FULL days

Gold_Miner · Dec 16, 2011

MRTWEETY said: ↑

I feel like I'm talking to myself. Either my thread is dead or every one is on the grind. Drove ten hours straight with 2 30 minute breaks in between. 596 miles. Tommorrow is gonna be the same thing.
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I read it daily, as a newbie, I have a ton to learn. Soaking up as much knowledge as I can, so that I can be a great, safe, and on time.

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