Swift Enterprise

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