Swift academy required documents

ANOTHER BONUS:

IF (to repeat: IF)....Swift should later reject you....because they are somehow not satisfied with your employment history (or some other relevant reason) -- DO NOT despair.

Instead -- apply with Schneider:

Truck driver recruiting events | Schneider

When I first started out driving commercially -- Schneider hired me, when others would not -- because (at that time) I had a dismal employment track record.

Schneider is not the best paying of the starter fleets, by any stretch -- but sometimes in life....you just need an entity out there who will give you the chance to show that you indeed have "the right stuff"....

Schneider (much like Swift) will have the freight to keep you moving...& thus, earning money.

-- L

 

Swift is now notorious for jerking people around and could care less about doing it. MAKE SURE you are good to go with documents, etc. through email (proof) before stepping foot on the Crackhound to get wherever.

 

You're good to go!

 

Glad it all got worked out for you dude! Welcome aboard, and congratulations on the big step towards escaping homelessness. My big recommendation, if you can swing it, take an extra month of training, go with a second mentor if you have to. Top gun is a good program, the trainers are great, and it’s a nice option, but experience behind the wheel with a driver who knows what he is doing is the best option you have bar none. I had to do a second month of mentored driving at Swift because they initially put me with a flatbed driver, great guy (I don’t think he liked me at all lol, I was his first student ever) gave me incredibly good advice, and it was great experience, I however, could not do flatbed because the terminal I was assigned to was not a flatbed terminal, and the closest one was in Greer I believe, so they wanted me to do another month with a dry van driver. I was pissed at the time, but in retrospect, that extra month helped a great deal in making sure I was in fact ready to be behind the wheel of a 70 ton vehicle. Let me know if you’ve got anymore questions about the training process

 

@LH98 --

Thank you -- for your incredible post above!

You are now the Forum's poster child of "more is indeed better" training...for a brand new driver.

There are others here on the Forum who (amazingly) think that a week or maybe two on a trainer's truck is plenty enough; and...."it doesn't really matter"...at what carrier you start out your commercial driving career....

-- L

 

@LH98 --

Just to be clear....

Starting out....as a brand new driver....WITH SWIFT....you did:

• One month -- with a flatbed trainer -- & then....
• Another month -- with a dry van driver

Color me jealous!

Schneider threw me the keys to an assigned tractor -- with less than a week (about 5 days) on a dry van trainer's truck.....

Before I went to Schneider -- I had applied to Swift....but was turned down/away -- due to an unsatisfactory work history.

VER-RY GLAD to read/learn that you had a great starting-out experience with Swift!!!



-- L

 

One week of training with a driver is insane, that’s the kind of thing they do if your like, switching to another company with experience, IE if you had 2 years experience at like, JB hunt for example, and joined Swift they’d stick you with a Mentor for a few days to make sure you do actually know what your doing, and to show you how to use the tablet and apps and stuff