241 hours done, once we parked the truck for home-time at 2 am. followed by driving my happy posterior home. Called driver services, to find out when I could come back and upgrade, and they said I have 219 hrs, but he said bring in all my logs, and that will work. Double checked the math, and I have 241. So....back to Houston Mon. or Tues.... My mentor was awesome. Helped me un-learn a lot of my bad habits from driving 10 years ago. Even though I have 7 years of driving experience followed by a 5 year break, I am glad I went out for the 240. We got along well, and have similar attitudes. He said I was the first student he ever had, that he recommended to be a mentor on the mentor's final comments page of my review. Also wrote a personal note on my review of my mentor (even though there isn't a place for it) to let Driver Services how good of a mentor they have. Just hoping there isn't too long of a wait for a truck.
beware, they kick you out after 6month to 1 year, if you want to learn only, that's ok -if you can handle the slave drivers, but if you want to earn a living and be treated with respect, this is definitely the wrong place! ...got usually ~ 1500mi/week, lots of down time because of bad equipment or no loads. The trailers are really bad!! mileage given and paid for is almost always much less than actual mileage - see the class action lawsuit for mileage pay.
How do you explain those of us that have been here for 2 or 3 or 4 or more years? They have gotten rid of the worst trailers and most of us are driving trucks that are 3 years old or newer. Sorry dude, looks like you just plain couldn't cut it!
With all due respect Southafrican, if you have a problem with Swift I suggest that you start your own thread instead of dredging up an old thread and inserting your negative comments in someone else's success story.
I am easily averaging over 2500 miles per week (and I work off a 12 hour on/12 hour break day-I am still making time for daily showers and a few light work outs per week and Walmart trips) and have since the first. The tractors are almost all new(er), though admittedly the trailers/eqipment look a little skanky compared to Melton or Maverick. One change I wish they would make is to assign tarps and make the drivers accountable for good ones. The tarps are shyte 90% of the time which is frustrating when you have to keep something dry, it is raining and your tarp is full of tears and missing "eyes". As for Swift as a whole, I have been pleasantly surpised based on all the negatives I had heard. Nope, they do not pay you what you would earn with some other companies, but that is something clear from the beginning.
Southafrican has 4 posts and all of them are whining against Swift. He's got the problem, not the company,
Yeh...I got a good belly laugh out of the whining about slave drivers, yet only pulling 1,500 miles/week. Something just did not compute there.
