Swift training school any one out here been there.

So, Bob sent me an email with the following link today.

http://www.klewtv.com/news/local/51434457.html

He was interviewed along with one of his current students at the Port Of Entry in Lewiston ID. If you watch the video you will see Bob, and Annette, his current student.

 

I have read a few pages of this thread and wondered where does someone fit in with a "prehire" status at Swift if he/she has a CDL A (recent) and recent private truck driving school (not trucking company school). Is orientation possible after a retest, or driving test? I would expect some Swift Training Academy also, no, yes?

 

Pass a road driving test then 6 weeks with a trainer

 

thanks Bill. And you or someone pointed out something that I never thought of, that I had to show up and court to deny. 11 years ago there's a warrant out for me for knocking on someone's door. Not even angry, i just thought noone home so i left after 30 seconds. Thing got thrown out in pretrial, judge lambasted other party for misusing first police, then court time. I will keep that on the communication list to the trucking companies

 

Today was day 1 of a 2 day orientation. We have 10 students in our class, and 2 of us attended Swift's Academy. The other 8 students took a DOT Physical, and had to complete a driving test.

Since we attended Swift's Academy, Dave and I only needed to take the drug test today. We had to spend the entire day sitting in the drivers lounge while the other students did their stuff.

Basically today was a bog waste of time for Dave and I. We should have a better day tomorrow because the schedule is showing a lot of different terminal associates that will come in and give us an introduction.

If all goes as planned, we will have our driver codes on Wednesday afternoon. Waiting for a mentor may take a little bit longer!

 

Ya'd figure they would let ya skip the parts that you don't really have ta be there for... but guess that would take a little extra planning LOL...

I'm still sitting around waiting for the next class since recruiter dropped the ball.....

 

That figures! When are you scheduled for now?

 

Today was the final day of orientation. We had a few different people from the terminal that came in and gave a small presentation. Most of the day was a bunch of useless information and a quick tour of the shop.

The terminal manager did come in for about an hour and gave a great talk on macro 10 and how important it is to get it accurate. He also spoke about fueling and fueling directions.
He spent about 20 minutes talking about DCI, and how Swift would save $16,000 a day if every driver cut there idle time by one hour. He did say that the Sumner terminal is at an 18% DCI, and the company is well above 25%.

He had some real neat calculations to show how many miles it takes to pay for an accident involving broken hinges on a trailer. Pretty neat insight, if his figures are correct. He used a profit margin of $0.13cpm, which is an old number and he said that it is currently more like .03cpm. With a minor incident of $500 damage, it would take over 3600 miles to pay for the damages. It was cool to see this on paper and putting a number to the damages.

Our class was released at 2:30, and the lazy facilitator said she won't submit anyone for a driver code till Thursday morning because it was too hot today. So now we all have to wait till at least Friday till we even have a chance to get on our mentors truck!

So some of us will be sitting around the terminal thursday just to make sure we don't get forgotten.

 

yeah no kidding !! She didn't state the exact date but its the class that is two weeks from the one that started on the 27th.. I am thinking it is 8/10'ish. I am going to call her on Monday to follow up and find out what the date will be exactly..

So have you found out when ya will be headed out with a mentor yet ? ****** edit edit edit ****** Nevermind LOL you posted the answer while I was still typeing LOL ***** end edit ********

 

hi ford,
Do you lug your pc around with you to the rooms, or leave it in the room?
How do you secure it when you are away from it?
Are you taking it on the road during mentoring?