Advice FROM a new driver TO other new drivers...re: Tweaker Mentor

LEOUSA takes care of the weapons. There is no issue there. You can go places with it and correct id etc that we lawful carriers cannot go.

I would bet the ranch a drug test will be pretty hot against the trainer who is evidently more concerned with his drug world than the trucking and trainee world.

A nice amount of savings and ability to get yourself whtaever it is you need at a moment's notice anywhere in the USA at any time is a very powerful tool. Most people who come to trucking in debited etc do not have a 20 dollar bill to call their own sometimes.

The rest of it I would imagine would have to be back at the yard and settled one way or the other by the end of the first day, second at the most. Some mentor. I was also considering the problem of trainer's stability as well. It's unfortunate.

I would document everything as it happened while this is relatively good in the memory. If for some reason you are fired, ternimated etc you will have all that for the State to take up the case. (Unemployment, DAC etc)

If you are in a situation where you have to go out again with a different company and trainer you will not allow this to continue even one whole day. If it becomes a problem again, stop everything, especially that truck and do not move a inch until whatever it is settled.

I have a feeling you are going to be a good driver in many ways. And it's a shame this is going on. It'c not something that can or should be allowed to continue one more hour.

 

I don’t know. With my personal knowledge of Swift, I think the description is pretty accurate.

 

I was answering the question to Post #4.

 

25 years in law enforcement .No pension.?go get a job driveing local or due security at a club you will make more

 

Be nice to your second mentor. When you are on your third mentor, I am sure that guy will be worse than your first mentor. And if no mentor is willing to sign your upgrade paper, you can’t upgrade.

 

Go for it, like you have decided. Its no ones business anyhoo. Hope it works out well for ya.

 

Do you have any positive, helpful advice to give the OP? Why would his third mentor be worse than his first mentor? You have any basis in fact for that statement?

 

Yes, if you join the Swift mentor Facebook page, that’s all they talk about. Everyone of them states that if a trainee is on his third mentor, that guy is probably a trouble maker and nobody wants to deal with that.

Mentors also want trainees. If mentors keep fighting with trainees, they will be thrown out of the mentor program.

His third mentor will probably be those on the bottom of the barrel and who is probably not qualified to be a mentor.

As you know, the best mentor goes to friends and family and office employees. You can probably figure out who gets the worse mentors.