Recruited At Swift.. THEN DROPPED?!? NEW RULES?? WHAT THE HECK?!?

Hello everyone!

UPDATE:

I spoke with Tanielle (recruiting manager) at the Memphis location just about an hour ago or so. I had left her a message on her voice mail explaining the situation. Right at about 5 minutes after I left the voice mail, I called back and got a hold of her on the phone, and explained who I was. She said she had received my voice mail and is right now in contact with someone about the situation. She'll be calling back here in just a bit to clue me in.

Sooo, here's to being optimistic about still going. If it doesn't work out today, I've got an app in with Prime & a direct number to the recruiter there. Wish me luck with Swift today!

 

Sup, guys?

UPDATE:

So, I waited for Tanielle (Tawn-Yell.. I had trouble pronouncing it at first, lol) to call back after I spoke with her the first time in the afternoon, and I guess she must of been pretty busy, because I hadn't heard anything back from her for the rest of the day, despite leaving a couple of messages. I'll try early in the morning. I've learned that that's the best time to get in touch with anyone in the industry, lol.

I applied at Prime, and spoke to a recruiter named Cyndy. Everything seemed fine until she pulled my driving record. I told her before hand that I do have 2 speeding tickets on my record, 2 years apart, both over 15. The first comment out of her mouth upon pulling my MVR were these words: "You Need To SLOW DOWN, Sir!!". Hmm... Wow. Last I remembered, it wasn't anyone's job to really coach me on that, although that isn't something I do anymore. Every other carrier I had talked to had informed me that as long as there were no reckless counts on my record, that it would be fine, which, there aren't any. I've seen my record. And those other carriers also said no problem upon telling them about those tickets.

ANYWAY... Cyndy basically got a date for me anyway... Oct 26th... and let me know that once she heard back from the security dept regarding the tickets, that she would confirm whether I was on for sure or not. I did what I've done in the past and called up the security department myself to do a little interviewing. I've done this with every other truck load carrier I've been in contact with, just to be on firm grounds with the carrier, and never, ever had a problem out of them at all.

The woman I spoke to in Prime's security dept, Margaret, was, to say the least, not so helpful and was a bit rude about her answers. I was told basically that everything had to go through the recruiter, and how the screening process went within the security dept. It must of been 10 minutes after I had hung up with Margaret that Cyndy called my cell. The conversation went like this:

Cyndy Sounding very rude and a bit angry: "This is Cyndy with Prime. I was informed by Margaret of a couple of call backs from you earlier."

Me: "Well yes, I only called to check on the process"

Cyndy: "I'm knowledgable enough to answer any questions! With those tickets on there, reckless or not, I can't help you sir. Sorry."

And that was it. The end of my adventures with Prime. The whole 3 hours of it. Or something. Some of you may of had a better experience with the recruiters at Prime, but mine was not so good. as it stands, unless I hear back from Swift tomorrow, I'm looking at PAM, and possibly some other training companies. Anyone have any good suggestions?

Thanks for listening in guys, and I'll let you know how tomorrow goes!!