Swift review, new driver

That's funny.
I don't care who you are, but that is funny.

One thing I don't understand is why you are OK with the camera being a local driver, but not if you were OTR.
You already have this thing on your truck...

Is it the constant 'on-duty' of the camera while you are off duty?
It can be covered during those times.
The sound? That can be covered by a white noise device, so I'm told.
Even so, it shouldn't trigger an event unless the truck is bounced around.
And yes, I know. It is a camera with WiFi connected to the QC, and so can be spied upon at any time. (That was one of the lies.)
But unless some flunky/pervert wants to watch you jerk off or listen to a conversation at the exact moment it is happening...

And guess what?
I don't care.
I talk to my daughters and sister, and that's about it.
And if someone wants to watch a 60 year old do something else, well, the camera will be covered.

 

Ok you ask why I stay as a Swift local driver. As a local driver I can bring my truck home, no hot seating. There is no terminal here, we work out of a 3rd companys yard which is just a big fenced in area with a single wide office (not ours). I can often make my own schedule. Usually I have a pre-plan for the next day, I can plan accordingly. I have weekends off if I want them. Usually I do want them off but do work if needed. We get paid pretty well. This Tuesdays is $1427 gross. I don't give net, we all have different taxes and insurance. I'm home every night. This makes me tolerate the camera.

If I ran OTR there are plenty of companies that pay more than Swift and do not have cameras. But I don't want to run OTR so I have to take the camera. I don't have to like it.

 

We differ in our priorities.
My home times are split between CO and MN, so local anything would not suit me.
Being OTR I can get to my actual 'home' every couple months and see my sister, who is the last surviving member of 'our' family. And I can get to see my daughters every other month as well.

You have a good thing going, though.
So do I, in my own corner of the world.

I don't think any of us like the camera, except when it is only facing forward. That is a good thing - for most of us.

And I could probably make more per mile with another company. I certainly have the experience for it.
But I know the system here, and other drivers from other companies that I've spoken with have made me realize that I am probably in the right place for now.

 

I'm not disparaging your choice to be working for Swift Moose, you know the system. Hell I know it too and have not done OTR in over a year. I'm just saying that I could not do it. I wasn't trying to be arguementive, sorry if I came off that way.

 

Sorry if I sounded that way. I didn't mean to.
To me it just seemed like a back and forth discussion.

 

Ok thought you were mad at me, all good

 

No suggestions for you. You know everything to do with trucking. You were asking questions about Swift on another post but now your here saying it sucks and your going to Western Express. Good luck with them. Let me remind you, they have less stringent hiring policies than Swift. But you already knew that right?

 

That's funny because on that Good Night From II thread you are complaining about Swift.

 

I've been trying to come up with some funny 'wylie coyote ' signs for my camera shots.

I'm not really local, but I do run regular routes and know where the spots are that set the camera off.

So far I just been acting like I trying to catch some air.... And telling the camera.. "YES!! I think I caught some air on that one"

Getting fired for pretending to jump an 18 wheeler, would be the coolest story I would love to tell in a job interview.

 

Someone needs to find a hack to the wifi interface.
It would be so cool to insert a few cartoon clips in place of the real footage, like wylie coyote falling from a cliff to a splat-down.