bad swift mentor BEWARE

Tell hubby to sweat it out for another day or so and just look forward to the day he will be off the truck. My Swift mentor: used my phone to call overseas without my permission, played with his computer when he was supposed to be sleeping, so I did most of the driving, had a series of personal problems crop up while I was on his truck...which made it a living he**, had to be asked to change his shirt after six days....and it goes on and on...

Best thing hubby can do is just keep a low profile for a couple more days and be happy when he gets his own truck. Swift knows we all get cabin fever after being locked up in a space the size of your average bathroom 24/7 for six weeks with a complete stranger. It's not that they don't care. It's that they know it's almost over. I hated my mentor when I got off his truck...but we became friends later. He's not such a bad guy...(my mentor) but we had a h*** of a roller-coaster ride.

 

my first trainer was really bad but really he prepared me for the real world.Truckers get exposed to alot of nastiness.He will do alot of night driving and if he wants to stay in trucking he will endure alot of stuff his first year.After the first year things get alot easier

 

As your husband was told during training and orientation and by Driver Services, he does NOT have to put up with that type of treatment. Driver Services checks with those being mentored and your husband could have told them about the problems.

He needs to contact the Driver Service rep he's been given or anyone in Driver Services and TELL THEM. They will at least know the problems so if the mentor tries to low ball him he has proof.

Had he told them sooner they would simply have given him another mentor.

As for him driving at night. Normally during the six week training period the first to second week is done with the mentor in the passenger seat. But once the mentor feels the student is capable the driving is split and YES the student will be put on nights when the mentor feels it's okay.

If a student doesn't drive nights until he's given his own truck........then he/she is going to have a MAJOR problem.

I began driving nights the end of my second week of mentoring and my mentor was my own husband who wanted to baby me.

Anyway........he needs to contact Driver Services.

Best of luck to your husband and tell him "welcome to the team" for me. *smiles*

 

As a matter of fact, I'm in the process of returning to Swift. I have already contacted my previous DM, who wants me back on his board, which is where I want to be. He and I got some stuff done while I was there. Everything is in place and there are only two more steps to take. When they are completed, bye-bye current company. I didn't have to scrape by so much when I ran for Swift. These guys are killing me with all the nickel-and-dime crap. I can pull a revenue week of $5800 and take home $450. Something wrong with that picture.

For those who say they won't hire people with previous experience, this kind of puts the lie to it. I know...there are a lot of people who still think I'm a "rookie" and that's fine. Think what you will. There are folks out here driving with six months experience with more tickets, more accidents and more service failures than I have....which is....zero on all counts. And I personally have seen them hire people with fifteen, twenty or more years of experience.

 

welcome back Injun!

What I've been told is they'll do rehires only on people that had a good rep with Swift and if the fleet manager or DM wants them. Obviously......they like you.

They'll also hire experienced but what I'm still being told is they'll start at the reg pay and they'll have to at least go through orientation and possibly swift school. They will also have to do the 6 weeks of mentoring.

I'm told that Swift rehires don't have to repeat the mentoring.

Of course.......I could be told wrong LOL

 

It is not uncommon for a trainer and a student to not get along. The companies realize this. Ask hire up than your dm for a different trainer.