Accident during Swift Mentor Training Period

He should be ok. I had one student have an accident in my truck when I was a mentor. I drove overnight through some flooding areas and when the student took over driving in the morning (this was towards the end of training) I told him to wake me up if he had any problems. He ran into a road closure... didn't bother waking me up and decided to turn around on private property and hit a building. His only consequence was a close-quarters class and some paperwork. He still finished his training on time 2 weeks later.

 

If his mentor who was ground guideing him, failed to stop him.
Just as much fault as the spotter.. Hope it works out for him

 

Did your Dad mention how much damage to the bumper it was?Swift will probably keep him with probation.Tell your father from now on when backing to get out an look no matter what his mentor says.He took his mentors directions rather then using hisown judgement.Sometimes mentors don't see a certain something and the student solely depends on his hand signals.They should'nt do that.Tell your dad from now on when backing to ALWAYS GET OUT AND LOOK. that's a big part to being a professional truck driver.

 

Zero-to-none. There's a decades old "truck driver shortage". Rookies are expected to bump into stuff, once. They are then expected to learn from that mistake and not let it happen again or then it's curtains.

 

Why is this not the mentor's fault?

 

Don't worry; even if Swift fires him, there's plenty of good companies that will hire him.