Swift Oreintation Harrisburg, Jonestown, PA

Well here I am posting Swift in favorite trucking company forum. Before all of the nay sayers start dissing me just here me out.

I had a real hard time getting back into trucking because Im a newbe with a negative item on my DAC. Only companies that would hire me was Swift and CR England. I chose Swift because I just didnt want to pay $1500 for a refresher and team for 100 days with crap pay.

Swift oreintation was nice. Although we didnt get paid for it, they fed us and put us in a hotel. The hotel was at the DaysInn and it had clean rooms and continental breakfast. During oreintation they gave us lunch. Dinner was on us.

Day one was paper work DOT physical and roadtest for experienced drivers only. Thats right. Road test was only given to people who didnt need a mentor. I havent been in a truck in over a year and still didnt have to take a road test.

Day two learn to log, maps, qualcomm, company policy, usual stuff.

Day three, last day. more videos and learning Swift policies. And find out when our mentors will be here.
All in All my experience with Swift has been good. Will report back when im with the mentor.

 

well I took a refresher course in the summer of 09. and before that i only had 2months otr experience. i didnt have to take a roadtest because im going out with a mentor for 6 weeks. If I had experience then i would have to take a road test. And none of the experienced drivers got their own truck, they had to go with mentors for 5 days then get a truck.

 

Well they were not that experienced. They had under a year. One Guy had over a year and he got his own truck