Veteran's Scholarship -- Swift Transportation?

Is that team/miles or solo/miles?

 

This links to the Swift pay scale. http://swift.drivers-central.com/swift-transportation/driver-pay.cfm

Team pay is split between the two drivers. It doesn't matter how many miles an individual drives, it how many miles the truck is driven. If one driver has 2000 miles in a week, and the other driver has 3000, each will get a check for half of the 5000. For a new team the rate is 32 cpm starting.

5000 miles @ 32 cpm = $1600,
each driver gets $800.

 

Check the details of the "free" scholarship . It make require a year of indentured servitude . If for any reason you don't complete the year find out what you'd owe them . yup , here it is.

http://swifttrans.com/about/details/swift-veterans-scholarship-program There is a very high percentage of students that fail to meet this obligation . Get a couple of tickets , violate some petty company rule , or give them any other excuse and you're gone . Then you can expect to be billed for the school and you won't get a certificate of completing training .

 

Yes, make sure you read the fine print before you sign.

 

Call these companies and ask if they have veterans programs. Double click on their name for website and phone number.

Companies providing CDL training and jobs:

Central Refrigerated Service
CRST
C.R. England
Frozen Food Express (FFE)
Knight/Squire Transportation
Milan Express
Millis Transfer
PAM
Prime
R.E. West
Roehl
Swift
Stevens
Wil-Trans
Source: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/jobs4newtruckers/

 

Look at schneiders website. They have a similar program going on

 

The only difference between veterans and other student programs is the carriers get a government incentive to hire unemployed vets . The vets waste their GI benefits to get low training pay and substandard wages when they go team or solo . If the vets fail to meet the employment obligation see how much the carrier respects their military service . They'll be billed and given a negative DAC like everybody else .
Vets should avoid OTR training companies .

 

The Government's "Vow to Hire Heroes" Act of September 2011, gives companies a tax credit for hiring recent veterans of about $5000.00 per hire, so Swift is making some money off of hiring you. It is very possible that all these companies have the same information, so I'd be a bit more picky if I were you. several trucking company websites I've seen in the past few months have mentioned a special veterans program-- I am sure you need to just look into this further.