Going with Swift....Good or Bad opinions please

Congrats on your new job! My other half never worked for swift... Just Arnold and a few years back for Knight. Not much money brought home from either. Being out 10-14 days at a time and food gets quite expensive. I started packing 14 breakfast, lunches and suppers for him to take out. (he got tired of vienna and beanie wennies! Now is is with Bean Brothers Trucking. Home every other night with a dedicated run from SC to Ky. Straight there, 10 hour break and straight back. The pay is 21.48 an hour and thank god no cpm! That pay also includes insurance (4.28 an hour up to 40hrs to cover your insurance). Now he brings home a steady check every two weeks of about 1500.00.. and he is home more often which is where i need him! I know the pay may not seem like it at 750.00 a week but it's steady and he doesn't sit and wait on runs or pre-plans or sleep in the truck anymore. An apt is provided by the company for his 10 hour break. I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST!

 

I'm a rookie make great money u start $.25 at 3months uget $.28 and 6 months u get $.30 not sure after that but I run a lot I burn my clock every week and have to do a restart weekly sure I get low checks when I go home but usually $400 to $500 I a average $950 a week

 

If Home Time is not a big priority... and I am willing to stay longer periods on the road 4 to 6 weeks -- can you make that turn that into bigger paychecks and home times of 4 to 5 days off? In your opinion or experience?
Or is it all the same?

 

I stay out 2-3 months myself, if you keep the downtime to a minimum you keep a nice flow of money coming in. When I take off its for 4-5 days, I setup my home day to fall usually on a Wendsday so I get home that day but usually deliver so that night is a freebie, and then take 4 full days off and come back on Monday. When I come back there will be a very small check coming the following week, so there is your pay interruption. I don't plan on doing this a long time, it's mainly for saving to buy some equipment I need, then I'll go back to 4 weeks out, 4 off. It's nice coming home with another 7-8 grand in my pocket after all the expensive road stuff.

 

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Thanks for your post, that is my plan... I am 53 and I want to do this for 13 years and build up a retirement account and take advantage of the tax credit of 8k... and drive a big rig (I always wanted to...).

And every two months... a very nice 5 days off... surf and turf.

 

I used to drive for swift and never cleared 800 i moved on to a local driveing job and do better at that then otr and i dont sit or sleep in my truck smallest check was 1,200 if there is a servco terminal close by check them out