Swift Denver

You will have to wait on a truck that is available at whatever your terminal is. from my understanding and I was told this as well you cannot go to another terminal to get a truck.

I was trying to get one out of Lancaster where I did my orientation but my home terminal was Houston. they said no you got to go to Houston.

 

One friend out of Ocala was told 3 weeks. He told them "no problem, I am going to file for unemployment!" They had him riding to Greer to pick up a truck really quick.

 

It took me a little over a week to get a truck after leaving my mentors truck. My understanding is each terminal has its own pool of trucks and you will get one from that pool. Only way they would send you elsewhere is if one of their trucks was at a different terminal or abandoned somewhere. Swift seems to have each terminal set up as a semi-independent entity each with their own slightly different way of doing things.

 

If it is something you have your heart set on, it can be done on an accelerated schedule of just 6 months (L/0). I got into a lease after just 8 months, come to find out I could have done it 2 months sooner but glad I didn't due to the time of year and slow freight cycle at that time (December).

Look, a lease operator is lucky to make up to $0.40 per mile depending on how well they run their business, probably less than that. But there is light at the end of the tunnel, those high payments have to end sometime. I just saw 2 L/O trucks in the terminal here all chromed out including chrome spinners on the drives lol if that tells you how successful a driver could be doing this.

 

Sorry to hear about the road test results Tiger. Good luck with the training, maybe I'll see you out here somewhere.