Oh god! What did I get myself into!

Well If you signed with swift then that's it you need to live with it, if you didn't sign then just move on. I never heard of a down payment for that type of training, somethings don't sound right.

 

Sounds like indentured servitude is alive and well!

 

Stay with Swift for a year and get your training paid off and build up your experience. Then make a move to a 'good' company. Good companies don't want to see that you had a lot of driving jobs in the past year, better known as job hopping.

 

The last think I think you would wanna do is to transfer into JB, You like what your reading where? On JB's pages, it's a sales pitch to recruit drivers. They have a bad rap in the industry.

 

Some other members of the forum are better qualified to answer that then me, but I think Swift is a tad bit better. All the drivers for JB I have talked to have had nothing nice to say, and just the flip for Swift, they seem to say it's OK for now. SNI, most of them guy's are content for the most part. I worked for SNI (for 9 months or so) but never the other 2. Ever look into Schneider's?
You have a lot to loose 6 - 12 months of your life, money not to mention your sanity. If you haven't already take some time and search though the threads for subjects containing the 3 company's, and make your own assessment. In here you'll get both sides at the same time, instead of just one.

 

I wouldn't go to JB Hunt either! They play the SAME games (if not more) that Swift and all these other 'low end' companies do. If you have a stable work history (one before you went in to trucking) , check out Roehl, which is a great company and the one I picked to start out again. Lot's of good info on them on here!