Need advice

You can go into dispatch and see if they have any local runs you can do while truck is im shop. Maybe they can give you a local truck to do it. Or ask for another truck. You cant be choosy if they dont have many trucks available. If you get one with alot of miles on it...you can expect swift to give you a newer one since theg trade out trucks around the 500000 miles mark. Sux to sit

 

I got to the el paso terminal and my truck broke. Shop said it be awhile. So i notified my dm. He called me back and said go talk to fleet manager there. He had a local job with 2 stops he needed to get done. One was an empty trailer a walmart store wanted gone and then take that trailer to do a live load and tcall back at terminal. So i went in. My dm called an hour later and said they were glad i helped and pushed my truck in front of line. Truck was done by time i got back.. so you can make money if trucks in shop. You just have to proactive.

 

Makes you wonder if shop inspects these trucks before putting it on the ready line. When i turned my truck in i always gave shop list of whats wrong with truck.
Had a kw and qc took a crap. Went to edwardsville terminal and was a long line in front of me. My dm said screw that and gave me the fleet managers name to get another truck. They gad 3 available and i picked the best looking one. Everythung worked . So i moved all my crap in it. The next morning shop called me and said that truck wasnt avaulablw. The wi dow was leaking somewhere and was scheduled to get if fixed. So i went and got the 2nd best one and had to take that to shop for airleak behind the brake knob assembly
They had fixed it .pretty quuck and was abke to get that load picked up in time.

 

I hope you have a new job and a bus ticket to same from talking with recruiter from last week before you quit today.

 

Best of luck!