"prehired" at swift looking for advice

Hi neighbor, curious about: What are of NC are you from? How long has it taken you from school to solo? Which terminal will be be working out of?

Appreciate all the information avalible on here. I start school next Monday so interested in anything you can share with a real newbie here my man.

 

Wife starts with swift in TN the first week of February. We would love to hear more from noobs in training or just getting their trucks etc....... Thanks to all

 

i just did a run from phoenix up 87 to payson(sp) and over to showlow az. saw a lot of swift trucks runing that way. with all the big hills and curves on the beeline hiway, are you guys taking the back way to I40? whats the deal?? thanks

 

i am right up at the va line, i went to richmond va for school and so should you, richmond has a higher teacher student ratio and very freindly, i am based out of the greer sc term and you will be too being from charlotte the school takes 3 weeks, then you go for oreantation, at greer, then your on the road with a trainer for 6 weeks, then how ever long it takes them to get you a truck, iv heard first day and i have heard 2 weeks, it is all going good for me i have one more week with my trainer, and have seen 35 states with him includeing west coast, good luck to you, and remember to be safe and HAVE FUN !

 

Adam
I say do the swift training thing. You probably do hear alot of bad about Swift....most of which goes on with any other parrallel company. Truth is there are very few that can afford to do what swift does. Do this Adam...Write down your goals as a driver on an index card , make three copies. Put one in your pocket and look at it several times daily. When you are assigned your truck post one in eyesight. Put the other someplace safe. During your first year you are just getting experience but I can assure you that SWIFT will not hender your goals. I pulled for SWIFT and got kinda shook by all the bad mouth they get, but after going elsewhere I see that Swift has a layout that is GREAT for a New Driver (tough for an experienced driver) because they have all kinds of builtin safegaurds to help you become successful. I've heard the academies are tough ala bootcamp. ha ha ha no women and broke. Hey, driving has its equivelent to college sacrifice and thats training and OTR for 1-2 years.