Swift - Starting the New Year training with Swift 1/7/13 - A long read...

Another option as Ms Jamie explainend would be to start your clocks at 2345 for 15 minute pretrip and drive your 11 hour clock as efficiently as possible (using as little of the 2.25 hours remaining as possible [perhaps even doing the split break to eliminate the 30 minute mandatory break] ) and doing a 10 hour break and driving again before midnite, you'd be up around 750 miles or better for the 24 hour period.

 

I don't think in today's environment job hopping in trucking has the same stigma it once had.

Drivers with clean MVR's and PSP's can move about freely in the trucking Matrix at will. Especially if they are leaving a mega starter company named Swift. Any recruiter at any other company when you tell them you were at Swift and looking at the new company will tell you to say no more; the word Swift tells them everything they need to know about your interest in leaving Swift.

Many doors are open to you now. Just a thought but might consider looking for a fleet owner to drive for where you can book your own freight and never again have to rely on planners to start working you across the country. As long as you continue to be safe and productive (say 9000+ miles per month) you could take u a whole week off, nobody threatening to take your truck from you.

 

Good old Church and Dwight. Been there many times. I'm glad they have a scale on site; they run heavy, and get a bit carried away at times. Sometimes, I think they load for day cabs.

 

Not necessarily ... could be GSK, Graham Packaging or 3PL(?). ... T calling in Richmond, I would say Graham, with final in Hendersonville, NC

 

There are a dozen companies in York that we pull for, and it could be any one of them. However, any time one of our surge drivers heads south for home time, it's usually C&D. One of the companies warehoused in ES3 is a distant second.

Maybe Doc will let us know where he picked up.

 

Stupid question... what does "T-Calling" mean?

 

At swift and other trucking firms it means terminated call...usually at a drop yard or terminal....some location where it is securely tracked then transferred to another driver that takes it to the final.....lots of reasons for it.....looks like this was is t called so doc can do some hometime and the terminal was the best place for him and the load to be taken there,so he can continue on his way and the load too....