Swift or May?

I would go with Swift myself if I were you. I drove with them for about 2 years and wish I could go back. The reason I wouldn't go to May is they have a weird idling policy where you have to pay like $4.00 per hour to idle the truck which is just insane to me. One guy I talked to was getting over $200.00 deducted from his check per week for that. Won't have that BS at Swift but will have the optimized idle feature on the trucks.

 

Yes they can if they want to,this happen to me.I was post to start with a company and at the last minute I back off.Well they put a NO SHOW TO ORDERITATION thing on my DAC.I took care of it and I got it removed.But they can do that,its unfair but they do that some times.

 

He was feeding you a line.

May's idling policy is on a sliding scale... in the summer you can idle 30% of your drive hours.. then it tapers off (20 and 10%) as you near winter. Idling is used only for A/C (or extraneous electrical BS, like running my tower computer), since every truck has a Webasto heater. I drove for May during the summer/early autumn months this year and NEVER came even close to the idle time limit - and I like my sleeping area COLD.

Another item about their idle policy - if you keep your idle time below the limit, they pay YOU the difference (there's a formula - I forget it at the moment)

I never had a problem getting a load - even after I refused one (no way to make it on time, and cust not willing to reschedule). I never lacked for miles. I could meet my DM face to face any time I was in town (dispatched out of my home terminal, so that was about every 3 weeks)

Bigarmin88 - saying May is a "little" smaller than Swift is kinda like saying Perth-Amboy NJ is a little smaller than NYC. Swift has (call it) 19000 drivers. May has about 1000. Big honkin' difference in the freight world.

For a while, I drove one of the older trucks in the May fleet - 2005 Pete 379. Then I drove ANOTHER 2005 379. Most of the fleet these days is Pete 387s, though there are some Columbias coming in this year, I think. 60 or so, if memory serves.

Pay was always on time, and the only problem I had was resolved by one phone call in about 10 minutes.

I've never driven for Swift - though that could change... but I do have a friend who did. For the most part, she enjoyed it, but when her partner wrecked the truck while she was in the sleeper - and they fired both of them for the wreck... that's a bit cheezy. (yes, I only have her side of the story - but I know she was definitely in the sleeper - have photos the fire department PIO took of her extraction. She was essentially uninjured, but pinned in pretty effectively. Really, really lucky)