Swift Is Good

Letting them know ahead of time is key. I've had a couple times where it was totally my fault that things went wrong, I called in ahead of time, explained where/how I screwed up and gave my new ETA and did NOT receive a service failure. 5 days from my 1 year mark with no service failures.

It really sounds like this guy needs to fire his DM, even it it means running out of a different terminal. You do NOT have to run out of the nearest terminal to your home. Heck, if you want you can live and run in the west and have you "home" terminal be on the other side of the Mississippi. If he can find a DM he likes somewhere he can talk to that DM and be transfered and his crappy DM wont even know until it's too late.

The same goes for anyone who gets stuck with a crappy trainer. Fire them right away. I fired my first one and she didn't even know until it was too late.

 

Hey IMG,

Just though I'd jump in here and say hi to a neighbor.

Last I read you you were looking at the mine company and talk'n dirt hauling. Good to here you've decided to do something and got with Swift. I thought they had a place, a lot, over there by I-40, by IWX. I looked for there lot but I couldn't find it. It must have been something tempoary.

I've been thinking SNI but I gotta move my lic. to Riverside at a friends house to get with them. How much money can you make a wk at Swift.

 

Really, my DM is not the largest problem, the company itself is. He doesn't do 90% of the nasty #### I hear people complaining about, like counting people out for hometime if they even get a day off at a random TA somewhere. It wasn't even him that gave me that crappy load, it was the night dispatchers.

I'm honestly beginning to rethink waiting for a new job before I drop this one. If it wasn't for the stupid loan payments I wouldn't need to worry. I'm eyeballing 6 months as a nice round number to wrap this up on, which has the added bonus of guaranteeing I won't be stuck a thousand miles from home on my birthday.

 

Well the wind of change may be blowing. THe 16th was booked up so I was delayed by swift. But the wind of change not stop blowing, I received a call from a guy in Florida may want me to drive for him. This will be Coast to Coast, which What I really want, most had claimed, but none had provided.

 

Cool, sounds like a good deal to me hehe.

Well Im leaving for Millington as we speak, hope it doesnt suck.

 

Good Luck and stay safe.

 

HAHAHAH That wind did not stop for it changed again, lol The company in Florida kinda fizzed out, and the Swift recruiter called at 4PM said I was in tomorrow Orientation if I could get there. So As of tomorrow I will be in Atlanta starting orientation.

 

Dang it.. I was preparing to go and drive out there this AM early. Since I had gotten late noticed I had much to prepare and pack. I woke up 4 hours after I had planned on waking did not hear my alarm, and when I woke 30 minutes after they started. Well next week.....

 

In my 3 years with Swift I had 1 service failure (was not aware of macro 22). Since then I have always used Macro 22 when running late even when I stopped to take a short nap when got to tired to continue to drive, or when I did not pay attention to my HOS.

A lot of drivers are not aware of either, when I trained I told my "students" that if they felt I did not train them well or if they thought I abused (beyound the grunt work ) them they can request a new trainer without notifying me. Also told them if their DM did not help them to contact their FM to request a new DM.

 

I'm in Masachustts, I'm currently going to a private school to get my CDL (not ntts) and hope to get it in late October. The school does not have a job placement program, but they can "lead you in the right direction". For I answered an ad on CL and it ended up being a recruiter. He told me upon graduation to give him a call for a reginal position here in the "north east" anywhere from as far west as Ohio to as south to Virginia for .37 a mile after training. We didn't talk long ( I was in the middle of practicing my blind-side parallel parking) so I didn't hear what the job or training really consisted of. Well thats my first "offer" and I just wanted to let everyone know.
Kris