Swift Inc.

I’m also interested if anyone’s been

 

I was gonna go that route and talked to a recruiter from Swift. If you go with their schooling you will need one year employment with them to pay the tuition back (equivalent of $6000). They do offer tuition reimbursement as long as you provide the proper documentation that is require.

 

What do you need to know? Knight Transportation owns them now.

 

I can tell you my experience with them when I went back in 2005! I had no other opportunity to get in to trucking other than a mega carrier. So I went through there school in millington tn. Long story short after 2 years of driving trucks I was notified by my DMV that swift had been doing some illegal practices with giving out CDLs to illegals! So I had to give up my license and go through the whole testing process again and lost a job over it! So if you ask me swift the owner or owners of swift can eat ####! I’m sure someone on here like Chinatown can give you much better advice and approach to trucking other than them

 

I remember that scam man. They had DMV "officers" on payoff to issue CDL's to those that scored poorly. Just about ruined them.

 

Swift pre trip


Swift Air Break


Knight/Swift - at least its better than CRST and CR England. Maybe even better than Prime right now. Team trucking is not what you want. Spend one month with trainer and upgrade to solo. You will much appreciate that.

 

I wouldn't recommend. First couple months will be great, then it'll become apparent they're not as great as they were made out to be. The first zero paycheck will happen about 6 months in. At 7 months, the camera timings start to get impossibly tight with about a second delay, removing all context. As it is I just got canned and they confiscated my last check. Claimed it was to finish repaying the tuition, but the total amount is too high for that. You're probably better off literally anywhere else

 

CRST is finally getting above bottom feeding. As far as England...still a laughing stock!

 

Swift is not a perfect company. There is no such thing as a perfect company. I had issues with them on the reimbursement and sign on bonus which I never received. However they are great starting company. People who have been with swift more than 5 years swear by the company. I'd say about 75% of the people that complain about Swift are the ones that couldn't make the cut. When I started driving I drove with Swift. I had a few problems with dispatch on the East coast giving me really bad loads and then really bad advice. Out of frustration I want to another company called Stans Inc in South Dakota. Funny thing is most companies talk about safety and its importance. Swift lives by safety. If someone at Swift tries to get you to do something that you feel is unsafe all you have to do is report them and those people are instantly fire if there is proof, so like everything in CDL world, get it in writing. I regret leaving Swift for the second company, because the second company made me realize just how bad things can really be. Not only that, in the time that I've been driving I've never once seen one wrecked Swift truck. Yes there are bad drivers, a lot of them, but that's simply because they are so large. If you were to give the ratio of 50/50 for good drivers and bad drivers for every company then Swift still has more bad drivers. I remember about six months into my working for Swift. I stopped at a Flying j red wings. There were three drivers standing outside griping about Swift as the Swift truck went by saying well there goes another swiftie, get ready somebody's truck is about to get hit, swift are nothing but a bunch of morons. Well that really irritated me. So I stopped and asked all three of them how long they've been driving. one told me he'd been driving for three months the second one told me seven months or third one told me he'd been driving for a year. And they did this with such condescension and such arrogance. I simply replied oh so you are all still a novice drivers. Well let me tell you something, the Swift driver that went by what's a 6 diamond drive. Diamond drivers at swift mean that they've gone 1 million miles without an accident. 6 diamond means that they've gone six years as a diamond driver. That driver had more experience and it was a safer driver than all three of them combined and half the truck stop. one thing I really find disgusting about the trucking world is how much crap they give swift drivers. We are all truck drivers. And we should treat each other with respect because we know dang well no one else is going to give it to us.