Diary of a current Swift flatbed driver

Hey Streetshark, according to the people at greer, if you are signed up for flatbed you can go straight to flatbed. We had a couple people in orientation this week that wanted to do flatbed, but werent signed up, so they got sent to dry van. If you do flat first, you go straight to 240 hours with a mentor on a flatbed. if you do van first, you have to do ANOTHER 240 hours with a flat mentor. I dont think their are any physical requirements, as long as you can pass a DOT physical. If you smoke, you can cancel that while with a mentor. The ONLY smoking mentor quit two days ago, according to my DM. But they have a couple non-smoking mentors out there, and there are only 2 of us going with mentors this weekend, so you should be able to get one. Hope this helps!! Im new at this myself, but I'll try to help where i can. good luck!

 

I wasn't able to get back in contact with my recruiter. So I'll probably have to go to the Van side. But it sounds like you got hooked up with a mentor pretty fast.

 

Are there any prostars in the flatbed division

 

Have you talked to the flatbed DMs in Greer? If they need people on that board, I bet a DM could get the wheels turning for you. The recruiter simply gets you into the company - you're pretty much out of their hands once you're in. So why bother with the recruiter? Call the Greer terminal, ask for the flatbed DM, introduce yourself, and let them know you don't want to be a sorry ### door slammer.

 

Are all the trucks on the flatbed side double bunk? And do they run any prostars in that fleet

 

Haven't seen any Prostars yet. Mostly Freightliner Columbias & Cascadias along with a few Volvos. I've seen a couple of L/O or O/O KWs.

 

My wife enjoyed reading your story. she is new and i am a student in this. stories like this are really educational and we always love pictures. your time in writing this is appreciated. Perri Lee and Rachel

 

Yea im a Vet thats in the reserves now and waiting on confirmation to start school at Millington have no kids divorced and bills that dont exceed over a grand a month. Also plan on being out until my drill weekend.

 

Make #### sure you remind your dispatcher/DM about your UTAs frequently, and well in advance of those dates.

 

Will due cause they tend to forget ibet lol and how is it working out of the greer terminal and i want to do all 48 i had recieved a prehire from kllm but since things aren goin well there i wanna pull a skateboard since i dabbled in it while being deployed And had an ex swift flatbed driver give me some info