CRST? Any information regarding them would be awesome.

You would be crazy not to check out PRIME or find that recruiter at SWIFT. Crst is pretty bad from what I've been told. They run team trucks and they pressure you to stay out at least 3 weeks. Imo with you living in California. SWIFT is worth running through a couple of hoops for since they pretty much run the west coast as far as accounts. PRIME is mainly otr and just like crst it can be hard to get dedicated runs with good home time compared to SWIFT.

 

25 cpm...wow.
I started at 38 with Swift haha

 

How long have you been with Swift? I have orientation in Gary next month. How many miles/wk are you averaging? Thanks

 

Coming up on a month now. I'm brand new
Gary is actually my home terminal. I'm teaming right now but my mentor and I got just over 7,000 miles. He bought me a steak dinner and said he'd never seen a student want to run that hard lol
I'm in flatbed here though.
I hear that flatbeds get more miles at Swift and the division is tiny compared to their van fleet, my DM has time to talk to us about family life and personal issues that she'll remember and follow up with. That blows my mind as most people can't even remember your name. If you work hard you can always keep the wheels turning. Hitting 2,500 seems very doable, anything above that is you doing a good job managing hours and load/unload appointment times, but the miles are always there if you can play your hours right.

 

I was in the Military. If you got a general discharge it means you screwed up pretty bad.

As far as starter companies it seems Conway is good for beginners.

CRST,Swift,CrE, are just sweatshops on wheels.

A newbie lady here named Dreamboat went with Conway and it seems to be working out well for her.

 

Ahhhh the LOR-Letter of Reprimand.

Not trying to dog you but one single lor wouldn't get you a general in most cases. Though I've been out a while, perhaps they've gotten stricter. I got a couple loc's- letters of counseling and was told one more would be an automatic lor. My crime was hanging out with the heavy drinking crowd, it was guilt by association. But I kept my nose clean mostly and got out with an honorable.

A lot of people here speak well of Schneider,especially the lease your own truck-pick your own freight aspect of it.

I believe they hire pretty well anywhere.

If your driving record is clean that improves your chances.

 

I thought swift gave you the run around for a speeding ticket that you didn't pay?

 

wow, that IS a lot of hard miles you got there. my car now has 80,000 miles and it is 5.5 years old now.

guess i gotta catch up to all your hard driving.

then again, i have just slightly over 2 million miles driving a truck.

guess you got a lot of catching up to do.