Good Things About Swift??

you mean you lost one..???

 

- My favorite thing about Swift is how viral we are as a company online, these memes are hilarious.
- And if I ever need help staying awake there's always someone on the CB to fight with haha
- And half their drivers are so lazy you can pull into a yard and swap appointments so you get loaded and rolling sooner
- I'll never have to tell someone how to spell my company name. (Unless I'm in Alabama)

 

Another good thing about Swift.....all you can eat Punany at all their terminals.

 

Just needs a little salt & pepper

 

Like you I came back into trucking after a hiatus, in my case 30 years off doing a career. Getting back into trucking was a bit of an eye opener, I regained my CDL testing out in my brother's truck without going through a school and teamed with him for three months. Swift took those three months recent experience in lieu of school and I went through their training program and tested out solo over two years ago.

I put in two years with Swift. For me it was a good experience. I ran OTR solo for six months, then switched to a dedicated team account running coast to coast every week for six months, then switched to become a mentor for the last year of my work with Swift.

With the raises they've had in the last two years a new solo driver should be able to make at least $45K their first year, if you run hard. I averaged 2500-3000 miles per week running solo and most of my trainees that went on to solo driving average 2500-3000 miles per week. FLEET average seems to always hover closer to 2000 mpw, but usually you'll find that average takes into account the slackers filling the terminals complaining they aren't getting miles while in the same breath explaining WHY they aren't getting the miles.

I left Swift this last May on very good terms to take a job flatbedding in the oil fields and having a blast and making very decent money with a company that required two year's experience. Looking back on it Swift was a positive experience for me.

 

better not let PETA hear you say that.