My Swift Experience

Best of luck and good wishes to you there Kinghunter. I'm certain you'll do fantastic with Swift. Their home office is about 25 miles from my home in AZ. Real nice place! Last time I was over there (6 or 10 months ago) they had a nice row of new dark blue T-2000's. I think one of them had your name on it!!

 

Good to hear about your Orientation, hope you studied up for your Pre-employ UA, LOL. So far my O/D will be the 1st of March in SLC. Finally got to start a truck after a couple hours of PRE-TRIP TRAINING (echo echo echo). Got in 3 hours of going foward and backwards in a straight line (harder then it sounds when you have a 53' on your ###. But did it and did well so far. The instructors here are really cool and paitent, they do like to joke around a bit, just not wasting time. talk to ya'll later.

Oh ya Big Don, is the paperwork EVER done........ LOL

 

I think the T2000 are for the L/O, not company drivers. I'll find out tomorrow

 

There is buttloads of them as company rigs now. All kinds of colors. White, purple, lots of blue, red etc..........

FAILED LEASE OPERATOR TRUCKS ARE BECOMING COMPANY TRUCKS!

I have driven the T2000. I keep my Volvo.

If Hunter signs a lease I'll put a whoopin on him Ajax can't take off!

 

Just to hijack for a moment here. I am teaming with my former mentor as you all know. He is about halfway through the lease term on his truck. Since I have been on the truck I have been bombarded daily about taking over his lease in a few months here so he can go lease another truck. Whenever I suggest going out and getting my own truck and leasing it on he shoots the idea down saying that Swift requires anyone bringing in an outside truck to have successfully completed a lease term (2 - 4 years).

So on the surface it seems like a legitimate offer he is presenting, says, I can learn the lease operation and business with no risk, short 2 year term, attain a truck with a fridge, webasto heater, new tires, may add an APU, Vuqube.

Some trepidations I have are that the truck consumes a lot of oil. He caught me putting the 3rd gallon in a few days ago (after about a week of driving 1000 miles a day it was low every other day), said don't do that, it holds 12 gallons blah blah it won't hurt it to be a couple gallons low. Well there is a yellow light shaped like an engine on the dash, and wouldn't you know it whenever I had put in oil the light would go out. recently the yellow light turns red and an annoying bells sounds. His solution? Turn the truck off and back on several times til the light no longer comes on. I went out and opened the hood and he was practically ordering me to close it and not worry about it that it is some kind of filter that just needs to be changed. Excuse me, I'm supposed to be taking over this truck but am not allowed to even open the hood?

For now I just try to be agreeable because I need the job, although I did not receive a paycheck last week because his settlement was only $26 dollars and this week was $1400 which should have been all mine considering... he offered half of that (actually $460 with $240 IOU) and will 'make it up' (my first week's no pay and shorted pay 2nd week) in the coming weeks lol but I will be inquiring from the owner operator recruiters myself as to the veracity of this guy saying I can't bring in my own truck with 1 year's experience this June 2011.

 

11 pages about your experience at Swift !!

And you haven't even started there yet !!

Darn, KH , you ARE good !!

 

I just have ONE question here Scottie - You are not actually considering having any type of business dealings with this guy are you? Just this one post alone should be enough to turn you off completely.

 

STAY AWAY FROM THAT TRUCK
please do not lease that truck from him--sounds like he doesnt care about maintenance at all---you could be inhereiting a huge nightmare

 

No Pink for the ladies?