old school starting with swift as trainer

im searching through trucking schools now, mtc in st louis has all my paper work and should be starting school the 27th. a friend and i want to try to become team drivers. we both meet swifts criteria. ill be 51 next month and i have been in construction for about 30 plus years. kids are grown,so i am seeking a new career here.any replies and advice would be greatly apreciated. it would be great to team up with an experience trainer .

 

good for you. this industry lacks good trainers and i am glad to hear you like what you do and take pride in it.

 

What Kind of problems did you have at KLLM. I've been looking at them and a couple of others for my first company driver job.

 

Hi, I trained and live in st. louis,,, I trained at Nu-Way, Just remember one thing, they are training you to get your CDL not become a truck driver, sure you can use some of this training when you start driving but you are going to there to get your CDL, In missouri you will have to know how to back in at a 45 degree angle, staightline backing and parallel parking, sight side and blind side, which if taught to you correctly is pretty easy, Good luck and be safe.

Biker

 

I drive for Marten and was curious what recruiting screwed up on ? Hope your able to get on with someone.

 

As a Swift grad from lewiston id let me tell you what I encountered. The staff there was awesome minus one but I'll explain that a little later. They put us up in a crappy motel but I guess that was to prepare us for living on a truck. The training was ok till you had to stay back a few extra days because you didn't get enough training since the class size was to big for the instructors to handle. I wasn't to concern about it I just wanted to get my CDL and get on the road. My third week there I was on a truck trying to learn how to double clutch and all that fun stuff. My instructor would fall asleep all the time. I didn't think much about it since it would be him having to explain to his boss if there was an accident or anything in that nature. After giving it a little bit more thought I got upset because I was paying for him to instruct me on driving ( see this was during the winter when we had ice and snow on the roads). I read through these fourms to get an idea about companies and figured that everyone has something to say about someone. I went about and went to Swift for training but have been waiting around for them to finally approve me to get on the road even after my doctor sent off 3 faxes stating the same thing that I am able to drive. They finally called me tonight and gave me my driver code but I have an offer from CRST to go to orintation next week. not sure what to do but I do know I am leaning more towards CRST just because I am fedup with the excuses and crap that Swift put me through these past 3 weeks.

 

If I would have been there, I would have made sure you made it through. One company that needs experienced trainers is SwiftQuit. I'd have shoved you through, if I would have had the final say, and you'd be working for them now.

Sometimes, I feel like I want to be like some of these NFL coaches who go to losing teams just for the chance to build a winner from the bottom up. I could go to SwiftQuit and help turn things around there. The first thing I'd do is change the name of the outfit. The negative connotation attached to Swift's name is chaining it down. After adopting a new name, I'd get rid of the mentoring program and cut the size of the company by at least a third. I'd then hire a whole batch of new trainers, guys with a minimum of three years' experience.

My company would become similar to what Crete was when I drove for them. You should give those guys a call, GTO.