Hey newbies! Pay Attention!

When I finally left Swift after a yr with them, I gave a two weeks notice, delivered my final load, and made sure my truck was clean inside and out before turning it in..

 

Brother, tell it like it IS! This same thing happened to me just about everywhere I have worked. Does it indicate that they don't care for me as a driver? No. It means that there's a lot of paperwork generated hiring a new driver, and sometimes things get misplaced or overlooked.

Biscuit, keep us posted on how you like it there . . . Wyldcat and I have looked at them, and we're trying to decide on our next employer!

 

Is there a cost for bringing that pooch with you at FFE?

T/M

 

I think the blame goes 50/50 here. We've all read the stories about trainers or mentors (swift) that only have a few months experience training the new drivers. However, any driver should have the common sense to not do the the things that this guy has done. But he or she mostly likely feels it's ok from the training they received. I've had to clean a few trucks in my past but not to many and I've never had a truck with that much damage.

I was lucky when I started hauling gasoline because there are no new drivers or drivers with bad habits. Everyday I could count on the truck being in perfect shape and the inside would be spotless. You wouldn't even smell gasoline or diesel inside. Every litlle thing work on the trucks and the boss had no problems if you went to the shop to fix whatever. That's a good job when management trusts it's drivers. I feel for you guys that have to put up with all that cr*p.

 

I will agree with the two i thanked on the first page. If you're complaining because it was in the hands of a newbie first, sorry to say, that truck could have been in the hands of ANYBODY. Just to pin it on a newb (which may actually be fact) is going out on a limb.

I've seen O/O trucks (where they actually OWN the truck) and it looks like that. I'm a newbie, I was issued a 2009 Volvo with just over 2,000 miles on it. If you looked at the truck now, with 35,000 mi on it, you'd have a hard time telling what kind of driver had been in the truck.

what it all boils down to, not self-respect, but a respect for others period. I can tell the drivers who could say "!#$% you" to other drivers just by the way they park. For an industry that takes pride on being 'professional', i see little of that out on the road. And that comes from a lack of respect for others......which is a shame. And you can tell this by how many drivers waive at each other as they pass by (coming or going)

 

Ummmmm, they WERE keeping their house nasty. We live in these trucks more than at what we call home.

 

I had the same issue when I first got out of school and started with Swift. When I said something about the condition of the truck the DM said that I was going to be driving it, not buying it. I quickly informed him that no, I was going to be living in it and that crap wouldn't do. He found me another truck.