"Comfort Zones" and Other Questions?

If the steel hauler thing doesn't work out, give J.B.S. a call. They may say YES, you never know unless you ask

 

Swifties don't get a referral bonus. Must be a reason JBS is paying drivers to refer people. Prime does the same thing.

The difference is 12 years' experience vs. no experience with last use of Class A 10 years ago. You can't possibly think this guy is going to walk in on $850/week.

I have a friend who worked for JBS until just before DOT crashed down on them. I won't repeat here what he has to say about it. That's not to say things haven't changed since then. But I know for a fact he was a hard runner and didn't take much home time. He wasn't treated so respectfully.

Swift is not the be all and end all. There are higher paying companies out there and there is nearly always a trade off. But I will caution the O/P to do thorough research before signing on with any company. Including Swift.

Keep in mind, no matter how much sunshine someone who is paid to get your butt into orientation blows up your kiester, every single company out there, even JBS and Swift, has its own brand of BS. You have to decide which flavor is most palatable to you.

 

The thing about Swift is because they are the biggest trucking Co.in the US,they have lots of freight.My son got regional dedicated right after training;he's home every week for his 34 hr reset.He's paid 44cpm empty or loaded.He trained with a 10 year veteran driver on 48 states so he wasn't home for 8 weeks,but they gave him exactly what he asked for.Maybe he lucked out because we live in a busy area for freight; NYC/newark ,port elizabeth.

 

is he on a SLIDING pay scale

 

No it's fixed at 44cpm.empty or loaded.He gets higher pay per mile because his runs are shorter than if he was on 48 states.He's just running NJ,NY,Pa and Conn.dedicated to P@G,most of his PU is from Tunkhannock Pa. Proctor and Gambel.

 

okay because the HH div out the PacNW is on the sliding scale

 

Ask the recruiter about getting on the glr account in that area, the pay a flat rete per week, u get extra for stop, drop and hook etc, the pay is almost 3x 300 per week, u home every couple days long as u can make it back that night, your loads pu in the mornings but some time traffic catch you comming back so you run out of hours.

P.s. Someone say go work for a small company, you decide who u want to work for the small company not for everybody the big company not for everybody, what ever is good for you and ur family that's what you do.

 

That p&g account is good also.
You can get home every night or every other night running for swift. I just finish training a student out of lancaster terminal and he is on an account where he gets home every night

 

Cool I am still looking at Swift and Prime but leaning towards SWIFT