Swift team drivers and mentor pay.

Hope you didn't take out loans. You can demand another mentor because you don't feel safe or aren't learning. Tell driver development you don't feel safe or that you are progressing in the way you feel that you should be. Ask for a new, COMPANY driver, mentor.

 

What Rover said, heck usually you just mention that there's a personality conflict and driver development will set you up with another one immediately.


I've gotten rid of 3students that way. Students can use just the same excuse unless DD had changed yet another policy without telling me. Heck now the 34fr reset for students is payed at least according to flatbed DD. But you have to call your Driver Development coordinator to tell him your on a forced reset due to hours. (Bear in mind this is flatbed, my last student actually got paid for this.)

 

I concur. If a mentor isn't a good TEACHER, then immediately ask your driver development manager to get you off that truck and with another trainer asap. I used to be a company mentor with Swift. A few times I have heard about trainee preference for a company mentor rather than an owner operator or lease operator. There may be something to that, because the profit margin at Swift is really slim if you run solo.

 

I was at Swift from 2010-2014. Lease Op Mentors had their base pay package reduced $0.05 per mile whenever they had a student on board. Also as a Lease Op they were limited to 11,000 miles per month to the truck. Exceeding 11,000 miles their pay was reduced $0.09 per mile.

So as a mentor, teaming, the first couple weeks of the month the mentor only had their pay reduced $0.05 per mile and the final couple weeks of the month their pay was reduced $0.14 per mile.

In effect, Swift was taking the Mentor money and paying the student with it. Then if by some miracle the Lease Op survived til the end of the lease Swift would return the $0.09 for all those miles towards the Lease Op's truck payoff, which Swift was taking off some other Lease OP to pay off this LeaseOp lol

 

Wow.

Just...wow.

That's like having all your rent money on the poker table, flop a flush and get heads up against a guy that has you covered who SHOWS you they flopped the nut flush and your only chance to win the pot is to go runner runner for a straight flush...

...and you make the call.

 

And there's the negative settlement check right there...

 

I read all this and learned nothing. How much does a company driver who is a dm make?

 

A "DM" is a "Driver Manager", aka dispatcher. You can't be a company driver and a DM at the same time.

A solo driver should expect to run about 2500 miles a week on average. Multiply that times the current cents per mile and that gives you an idea of what a DRIVER can make. Bear in mind that to average 2500+ miles a week you have to be willing to take any load, anywhere, at any time. There's no "I don't run at night" or "I won't go to X".