What should I choose?

You know what Amazon is, but trucking is a unknown. The first year can be brutal on a rookie. But the upside is that the industry is yours once you get that year under your belt (really 6 months clean some good companies may offer) but you can have just about whatever you want just about however you want. You take Amazon you may make like it but in 3 years you gonna be making the same exact thing if Amazon manages to keep all of these workers after COVID.

 

Oh, and hey, once you're onboard with Swift, with your own tractor assignment, request their Close Quarters training. I got that training from Mike Smith at the Sumner terminal. Best spent hour of my life, no kidding.

 

Yes. Lewiston, ID was my home terminal. I'm pretty sure they offer that close quarters training all over the place. I was sort of, um, it was suggested that I take it after an, um, incident, involving me bobtailing and wiping some rubber off my curbside front outer drive tire.

Onto a cars front fender.

The first year. Brutal.

 

That's funny. I live in NW Montana.

 

I've been past there to the south, the beltway, or something. Beautiful country.

You've got me thinking back on the absolute worst parts of my first year, and I'm realizing they all started with really simple mistakes on my part, mistakes that I honestly, just don't make any more, but those little ones have a way of ... getting MUCH worse, in the hands of a new driver. Omg, I am SO glad those first couple years are in the past.

 

Well if you really want to do it shouldn't you have made some effort by now to get your licence?