Schneider or Swift?

I thought it was just containers too. Never bothered to check it out but glad to have another option. A shower is even better. I have a customer in Everett right outside Boston city limits on the north end that has parking. PM me if you get desperate for a spot one night.

 

I think that I might head up there tomorrow morning from where I live on the Cape and check out the new facility. Free lunch from 11a-1p anyways. Plus, recruiters are there so maybe can get pre-qualified somehow too. Just to go and gatherinformation on the Company and so forth is worth the ride itself. I would like to know how I would do OTR versus NE Regional if Shrewsbury were my "base", so to speak.

 

Let us know how it is. Don't worry about "base". My technical operating center is 650 miles away from my house and I go there twice a year. OTR/VTL seems to be luck of the draw mostly depending on how your DBL is and all that. Alot of guys seem to be happier in dedicated positions. I run a small dedicated account (not one of the big box stores) so I dont really know any different. Then there's drivers like our friend @Friday who make it work for themselves on the VTL side. Like i said in a previous post, if you dont need your hand held and to be coddled every step of the way, it's really not a bad gig. There's headaches at Schneider don't get me wrong, mostly about safety stuff but if you do your job and have half a brain, they leave you alone.

 

At Swift I got into trouble, because they got me on camera drinking coffee and looking on GPS for truck stop. They just want you to stare at the road for 10 hours.
SWIFT policy, NO ACCIDENTS, NO TICKETS, but you don't drive how we tell you to drive, YOU FIRED!!!!

 

Swift if your a quick learner and can. Schnider

Swift if your a quick learner and can follow basic instructions. Schneider if you need a little more time. Swift actually has some of the highest skilled drivers in the industry. Very sharp and very skilled drivers coming out of swift. Mainly because if you can be successful on some of their dedicated accounts you can be successful anywhere.

 

Thank you for the details. SNI is a no go. Swift is still on my list but I am looking at Navajo and Britton first because I hear they treat their drivers better and have APUs. Werner too.

 

It's funny how that works for some people, but not most.

I've had the camera for over 6 months now.
At first it was both forward and driver facing, until the driver cam was disabled.

In all that time I've only had a handful of videos forwarded to Swift from the monitoring company.
Most have been 'resolved' without ever contacting me about it because I was not really doing anything wrong.
Mainly no seat belt in a yard or a hard braking when a light turned red and I could stop safely in time.

Recently one got sent in that required my DM to contact me to review it. Following too close - less than 1 second of distance - for too long.
I was going up a hill and approaching a slower truck. As I was about to change lanes to pass it another truck pulled out behind me, and he was a bit faster than me. I slowed to allow him by, then moved over just as he passed me and followed him up the hill until I could clear the slower truck.
It left me in a situation where I was very close for more than the allowable time.

My DM was, surprised(?) that I had a video that needed his attention. It had never happened before.
When I called him on an unrelated matter he brought it up. I had not had the chance to get to the web site to see it, but I knew exactly what the incident was. I told him what happened and he dropped the matter right there.


These things about Swift 'caught' someone drinking coffee or looking at a GPS for a truck stop just doesn't jive with me.
I do that stuff all the time.
Heck, I have to use both hands to light my pipe when I want to smoke.
Does anyone think that if Swift were watching us that closely, I could get away with it for this long?
Swift does not monitor the videos from those camera's. It is a separate company that only sends Swift the questionable video's.

And those videos are only sent when an event happens.
Something has to happen, like hard braking or a big vibration, to set it off.

You can go back to read what I posted about these cameras when they first came to us.
I was warning people about what they could actually do and how Swift might use them against us.
That has not happened in my experience with them, at all.

 

You've been a member since Nov 25, 2015. It's now August 6, 2017. When do you plan to get started?

 

Bazinga!

 

I've been having a lot of issues with my teeth. I was at the dentist last week for fillings and now having some pain after. Got to go in next week for three. I had a tooth extracted last year in December. One thing after another. You know how it goes.. and trucking only rewards you time off what..one or two days a month? It's a big leap.