Swift Enterprise

@Terrapin Flyer

Exactly the problem. I think that it is bogus that we only get a few weeks of school, no one will hire us, and then we are supposed to have 2 years experience??? It makes no sense. Instead of making the law 21, make the school six months to a year long, depending on what kind of driving you are trying to get into. You can barely learn how to deliver for UPS in 4-6 weeks, and we are supposed to learn how to drive accross the country?? It is quite a joke. I practice everyday, and I do not intend to attend driving school until I feel I am good enough to showcase my skills.

 

Piece of advice if you are going to a school. My stepfather drove for 20 years before diabetes took him off the road. His dad drove for 40 years before he suddenly passed away. I heard many "stories of the road" before I even went to school. And when I went, I went with a mindset of "I know NOTHING."

No need to "showcase your skills." That will get you zero accolades in whichever school you apply to. Go in thinking you know nothing about trucking, listen to the instructors, do as they say, and you won't go wrong.

 

Problem with these training co's is that they don't properly train these drivers any more.

 

Wow, Swift has 16,000 drivers on the road, and you are going to generalize that none of them are good drivers?

 

I like your avatar.

 

.....thats my King!

 

Swift was a pretty good company for me back in the day. I was lucky though. I had a trainer willing to train me and within the my first weekend on his truck I had all my backing goals accomplished and knew how to operate that rig.

Swift is a training company.. once people get that concept engraved in their brain, they'll possibly understand they way the rest of the company works.

Go in, learn everything you can and get out of there with a clean record after a year or two. You can pretty much hand pick the company you want to work for afterwards.

It's that simple.

 

I drove for Swift for 2 years does that mean I'm a bad driver? Fella that trained me has 21 accident free years at swift, is he a bad driver? Posts like this are what keeps the myth perpetuated, I've passed probably 30 accidents in the past couple months, only one of them involved a swift truck

 

Gotta get experience somewhere.

 

@kid cardiac

I didnt mean I'm goin to go in there thinking I know everything, but with at least a little driving under the belt. That is what the instructor here at the college told me to do, he said he is tired of just anyone thinking they can drive, he wants people to come in with a little knowledge so he can get them on the road safely. He said he wants people to hit the ground running.