Company policy. After completing your academy training and getting your CDL you go to orientation. After being hired on you are assigned a driver code and a mentor. You then have to complete 240 hours of time behind the wheel to move on to your own truck.
Don't know for sure in your case. Depends on how long you have been off the road. Most people are with their mentor for 5-6 weeks. You may get done sooner if you start team driving quicker than the true newbies like me.
is that for all jobs,i wanted to run regional....would i still have to have a mentor or am i expected to have the experience needed? sorry for hitt you up so much..just figured since your in you might know or your trainer would
Thats fine,i go with trainer that long, i been off road for 4 years , but been 2nd genertion trucker all my life, no biggee, but i wont do teams ,been there done that,
My understanding is that after about the second week of mentor training the truck starts running as a team truck to get your time in. I don't know if all mentors do that or not but I think most do. It is one way that mentors make money on the road. The mentor gets paid all miles the truck rolls plus 1 cent per mile for every mile you as his trainee run for the first year you are with Swift. You won't be forced to run team on your own truck.
