FYI Always the Driver's Fault

uh, if he is with swift, he gets them from his home terminal, or heck, any terminal for that matter.

 

People work so hard to make things difficult. If he works for Swift he just asks for the sticker at a terminal. I put ours on the morning of Jan 1st.

 

It is the carrier's responsibility to issue the IFTA sticker's when they arrive & they should be placed on the vehicle when issued. If he is with Swift, then they have the IFTA sticker & should have issued it to him. If he hasn't recieved it or made an attempt to go to a terminal to get or possibly to #### lazy to put it on..... Then he will soon be hounded by the DOT. All they have to do is to check their computer systems to see if Swift was issued the IFTA stickers & when. If Swift recieved them in December & he is still sporting the 2010 stickers.... I wouldn't want to be near him when DOT notices.

7 months with no successful student? Speaks a awful lot for a trainer.

 

This guy is having money problems? And he is the guy that writes your check?

Better start applying elsewhere. Chances are Swift will not take you back.

 

Somebody has bought into the idea you have to have two people on a leased truck to survive.

I'm sorry for that. My theory is you should be successfully running your business on your own and only be training because you think you have something to offer. With regard to business model, mentoring should be an afterthought, not a cornerstone, of your business.

 

only the ones who didnt make it leasing a truck thru swift/iel, or drivers who have been burned elsewhere on a lease/purchase deal and didnt make it seem to make up about 80% of the ones saying how "bad" the deals are....and say "the only way to make it is to team or be a trainer". If you can run 2700 mi/wk, you'll do just fine. Trust me....i am doing it.....i was doing it long before i became ...er....a trainer myself.

 

haha...scottie...those numbers you were throwing around about the plane ticket and fuel sounds about like something swift would do. =)

But i can tell ya, someone who tells ya, "you cant lease a truck, run solo and make it" ARE in fact dead wrong. NOW...that being said, if you have a $1200 mortgage, and a $300 car payment, that alone will eat up atleast 3/4ths your take home pay right there. Granted you're making $500 a week take home. (again just throwing numbers out.) But what about those drivers who DON'T have a house payment, car payment and have been carefull NOT to have any kids "by accident" and end up paying child support and alimony and whatever else. Yeah...you wont ever have a dime to live on. And, i for one, would go crazy eating PB and J sandwiches or the occasional bologna sandwich with a side of popcorn week in and week out.

Like i've said in older posts, someone might be happy as a clam making $400 a week. Some.....$600. Then there are some who think money makes the world go round, and can't turn a wheel, the key a tire for anything less than $1500 a week. I'm content with making $700/wk. But basicly i've been living on an allowance of about $150/wk. everything else stays in my bank account for the truck. Now....come spring, i'm hopin' to have $10k stored up in the bank account.....at which time i'll take out $5k and have my folks driveway paved.

 

If you need to make some extra bucks you can clean my windows and scrub my vinyl mat.

Knowing what you have said about this rig? It's scarey. I ain't nobody's maid service. We know one of the questions you get asked as a student..........does the mentor keep a clean truck?

No wonder he had problems with students. He is a joke as a trainer, or as a driver.

BTW your logs don't match? Whole 'nuther can of worms.

Dick, thought there was a Mrs.Jones? You don't pay her rent? Or part of it?

For me there is more than trucking..........gotta feed my hot rods, and keep a shop for my tools and engines and trannies etc.

 

no mrs.......


and you have trannys?