LEASE OWNER OPS

There's many threads on here, some I've been corrected on; where new cdl grads do not start at megas. It is completely possible. You have to do your research and calling hoping for something. It's your career. Short time happens between birth and death. I wouldn't waste it starting at a place I'm a number at.

Wrong way
(Ring ring)
Driver- This is Mike Smith, I'm broke down on 95.

Shop- mike? Who? Your a driver? Mike who?

Right way
(Ring ring)
Driver- this is driver 12345678900987654321 and I'm broke down on 95.

Shop- alright well we'll call you a service truck. Should be an hour.

Disclaimer: I have no knowledge if any of this is true, but unless your a frequent flyer and everyone knows you. This is how I'd expect a phone call at swift to go.

 

No...at swift you sit on hold with onroad for 2-8 hrs before you talk to anyone.

That being said, when my other half calls his OWN dm, he simply says his first name. Sometimes, they #### chat. He knows her future plan and what she is in school for. She knows about his kids and me and where he wants to go once he leaves Swift. He might be a number to everyone else, but he is not to the person he has direct contact to.

 

Haha...apparently ch i t chat is not allowed on this forum. It was edited.

 

The actual phone call would be giving my truck number so they can bring me up in the system, then they call me directly by my name without me having to tell them because the system shows me as the driver of the truck.

They already know where I am due to GPS location on the truck, and they know what's wrong because I've already sent a breakdown macro including what happened and what I believe is wrong.

They generally verify the problem with me, put me on hold while they call the nearest service center.....then get back with me letting me know when they're giving their ETA to get to me, and send a ref # to my qualcomm so I can give it to the repair guy.

Swift is a big company, and yes I'll be the first to admit that there are things that could be better, I'm not saying they're the greatest company ever. What bugs me is other drivers taking their beef with swift out on drivers just out here trying to make a living, who took what options the industry has made available to them....and as megas go, I've done alot of research and talked to alot of drivers and swift isn't the best, but they're far from the worst.

Also, you're assuming that people have the money to quit their job and go to a CC cdl class for 8 weeks, and even then where I'm from, all that hire from them are megas.

Heck, I had to get a georgia address so most people would talk to me.(I'm from florida)

 

This exactly. My DM is a guy my age who just had a baby, he knows me by name, knows we're a team couple and that we are out here to make money.

He also knows I'm one of the best teams he's got on his board and knows I don't lolligag and hang out at truckstops.

He called and talked to me when I went lease because he gets an email from the lease recruiter to give him a heads up because your driver code changes in the system, along with your truck number.

Company, your driver code is 6 digits 368xxx... when you change to lease it becomes an amalgamation of your name. So bob sanders would be "SANB1"

 

Or your driver code becomes something so memorable, that anyone who pulls it instantly remembers the last time they talked with you ... even if it was a couple of years ago.

 

Steve has a GREAT driver #, whether people remember it or Steve is another matter.

 

Hit me up if you still have it....

 

Wow.

After all this time, and all those nonsense responses that had nothing to do with your OP, you still have the truck.
And you even responded to a post from several months ago, still trying to get rid of the truck.

So, tell us what has happened in all that time?