What the heck? "We don't hire from that zipcode"?

Keep looking. Figure you dodged a bullet there. Take a look at some of the SWIFT threads on here. NOTE: I have never worked for SWIFT myself, however I've got two friends who got thoroughly screwed over with them. Also, recruiters are paid by the number of recruits they get hired. So if they are treating you like this before hiring you, just think how it would be if you actually got on there.

 

they are hiring out of my area but i cant go to their school for some reason.. now I am going on my own funding it class by class.. slow but certainly i will get on the road...

 

I think theres something wrong here. Swift should be hiring out of your area

 

When freight gets slow in lanes they freeze the.hiring in that area. I applied for swift when I came out of school and lived 40 mins from the Ocala, FL terminal and was told they weren't hiring any drivers at that area.

 

they do that because when you want to get home, they are saying it will be virtually impossible to find freight in your area,

an hour away is an hour of their fuel, both ways

and i thought Swift doesnt want their trucks home more than a day or two

 

Lucky you. Look at the refrigerated companies. Much better money annually than with dry van.

Best pay annually:

#1 - Tanker/hazmat
#2 - Refrigerated(reefer)
#3 - Flatbed
#4 - Dry Van

 

You sure reefer makes more than flat?

 

i make more money with a van than i did with a reefer

not saying its the same for everyone, but not waiting to go get loaded and unloaded and worrying about the reefer going down sure is less stressful and gives me more time to get another load

did i mention NO LUMPERS???

 

I'm sure. Overall annual average. I've done it all through my career. I'm sure there are exceptions to this. A good hard charging reefer driver can go over $55K and some much higher. I stayed around $65K with tanker/hazmat & some of the drivers made around $72K.

Of course, you must maximize your options. Work for a good company & run hard. For me to do this, I ran 48 states & didn't argue with dispatchers over trivial matters; tried to always look at the big picture. My worst habit was I didn't like check calls ; just leave me alone and let me work, keep me moving.

Look at stop pay, detention pay while loading or unloading, breakdown pay should start immediately at time of breakdown.