Just finished Swifts training academy

Well obviously you are not training anyone when you are sleeping.

If you are running a training team operation in 2001 at the company I worked for doing 6000+ miles a week, then you stayed up long enough to answer questions and hit the rack. Both trainer and trainee drove 8hr shifts till we got to the consignee. Training was in between running the freight. That is how I was trained also when I started in 92.

Now many companies run solo when they train. But when I started, training was another word for cheap labor. Their was no training except when you had time between running a team load. Get it?

 

Which in fact equals virtually no training per se, just cheap labor as described above... I have no intention of getting in
that kind of situation. If I cannot have a trainer in the passenger seat available to watch what I do, and being able to
correct what I do wrong, then how the hell am I supposed to make those corrections and LEARN? If as I have read, that
school will simply get me to the point of being able to get a CDL, and the company I start working for will essentially start
me at apprenticeship wages, I #### well better get additional compensation in the form of competent training.

 

I'm glad you had a great experience. I'm off to Millington,TN for Swift next week. I know everybody says not to go to Swift. And believe me if I could find another way I would. But I have no way to put myself through a school. I have my permit, and my ex neighbor works for a small trucking outfit near where we live. He's taken me out on a few trips with him running south and east. I got some wheel time with him, about 1000 miles. I was hoping he'd let me use his truck for the CDL road test, but he was worried that someone would see me in his tuck and that he'd get fired.

If I knew someone else who'd let me use their truck for the test, I'd do it in a heartbeat! The Swift recruiter told me that, if I could get my own CDL it'd save me a lot of money and some time by not having to go through their own program. And he said if I got it, to let him know and then I'd just go to orientation and then go out for 6 weeks training. Jesse is his name and he seems to be an on the level guy. Never pushy or promising me pie in the sky kinda stuff.

My uncle works for swift, he's been there 12 or 15 years...he's always told me to get on with them. He's on a Best Buy dedicated so he's home everyday. He got my cousin on there, and now my cousin in a trainer. So when I go out, I'll be training with him. Which is really the only reason I'm going. He told be to be ready to run 6,000 miles a week though. he said i had to be hang if I wanted to be trained by him. If it weren't for them I'd be looking somewhere else, not that I haven't been...but this is just the direction things seem to be going.

I have an application with Witte Bros, but haven't heard anything yet. After pouring over these forms I decided to give Crete a call. As everybody has given them high recommendations. But in order to get on with them, you have to go to a PTDI school, but they offer no tuition reimbursement program. Heather told me to call her back after 4-6 months with Swift, and I'd be eligible to hire on with them. She also said it was great hearing that other people were giving such accolades...I swear she was blushing...haha.

So next Tuesday I guess I'll drive on down to TN and get it over with. Swift also has a Wal-Mart dedicated account down in Moberly, MO just 25 miles south of here. And my Jesse said he'll put me in with the DM at Edwardsville, KS who handles that account.

So after my 6 weeks training, which shouldn't be a problem since I'll be with my cousin I try out the Wal-Mart for at least 4 months and re-evaluate things. If it's going well, I'll just stay I imagine, if not I'll jump ship to Crete and just pay off Swift with the $$$ I make over there.

 

Well my family and I went to Wal-Mart down in Moberly tonite, which is right next to the Wal-Mart DC. Coming out of the store, there's a Swift Frieghtshaker parked right next to me....driver door to driver door. My wife and I looked at each other and just laffed...she was like this must be an omen or something..lolol It was a weird coincidence considering all the other trucks usualy just park out at the west side of the parking lot. It was almost as if that Swift truck were beggin for me to come hop in drive it hahaha. But I think I'd rather drive the Volvos!

 

drive for swift ?I went to swift got a bad feeling when being there glad I forgot some paper work .sent me back home ,I will not return there.