MyecRunners Blog (Team Driving)

Yeah no problem!

Although prepare your finances to go a month without pay. In fact you'll need money for daily food expenses. The school is 3 weeks unpaid. Swift does pay for the school but you do not receive a check during that time. You don't start getting paid until the second week of your mentor program being that it's a week behind. So orientation week after school is the first paid week at min. wage cause it's on duty only time. But if you max out your 14 mostly driving you can do the math. It's enough to make it until you get upgraded. It's usually about $100-$120 a day.

 

Hard to answer yet because we have only got one check so far. Since pay is a week behind. So next Tuesday I'll know what a full week is like. I'm expecting around $550-$600 gross. Just an estimate though. I got $350 this week for half a week. So I guess we'll see how many hours I get. It's not bad. Not a living but it is acceptable while training for 4 weeks.

 

Yep that's what they are doing for us. I'm pretty content with it.

 

Yeah he has been good about having me do all the backing. I took a day at the back of a terminal to back a few times and that helped a lot. Still working on getting a better set up to start with.

 

That sounds about right to me! Lol yeah I'm the same way. And I have been pulling up pretty far. Sometimes my mentor is like, where are you going? Lol but I tell him, I do what I gotta do to get that trailer in safely. I told him, I'm confident that I can get a trailer in a spot, may not be quick and it may not be in one shot but I will get it in there without hitting something if it means I gotta use many pull ups and get out and looks. Lol and generally I've pretty much decided to use all the room that is available to me at any given place. Even if I don't need it.