Does SWIFT run background checks before sending a bus ticket?

You should call Swift and ask 'em. If they send you home from orientation, you're most likely buying your own bus ticket home.

 

Okay, I gotta ask. What did you do? Or are you one of the infamous "Dindu Nuffins"????
Driving a truck is NOT an escape from life's realities.

 

I did orientation at Swift in 2010. At that time the answer would have been no. They did everything, including pulling my MVR, while I was in orientation.

On the morning of first day the orientation instructor said everyone already knows if they are going to be hired. Swift checks five things and everyone already knows when they come in the door what the results are going to be.

1. Previous employment
2. Criminal history
3.. MVR
4. Drug test
5. Physical

If you really don't know what your criminal background check is going to report then I'd recommend not going to any trucking company orientation until you do.

Swift did not pay for return bus tickets back then. I'll wager they still don't.

 

It's like the guy using one of the google review boards asked me about working for Ozark. I responded. He then replied "what kind of drug testing do they do?"

I told him if you have to ask don't work for my company.

 

I live in NC, and I can go to the Town Hall and have a back ground report for a small fee and see the report myself. You could look into doing that.

 

The company is spouse to run a check before you're prehired but they do miss things and find those things during orientation then they get sent home.

 

Some places dont seem to check anything UNTIL you get to orientation. My first outfit sent one guy home on the last day of orientation because they discovered he had failed a drug test in the past. Last day.

 

Don't most companies use pulse.tenstreet.com ?? A company I am working with has run all the reports and I get copies of all of them and can see what they say.

 

Back when I went to Swift orientation there ere 5-6 guys who simply did not show up. My guess is Swift waits to pay for a background so they can file 13 those apps.