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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Captain Zoom, post: 2224170, member: 74269&quot;]I agree with jlind...Swift, like the Big Huge Giant Orange Army, is quick to hire, with precious little vetting of applicants, and even less time educating people on what they&#039;re in for when they get into a truck to drive long haul.&nbsp; I think any of the companies that train are going to have a comparitively high turnover rate due to things like entry-level attrition (washouts after CDL school but during the &quot;training&quot; period) and severe culture shock on the part of the guy/gal who was used to flying a desk and realized that this is an awful lot like work.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There will, of course, always be malcontents who expected helicopters to fly over their homes and drop bags full of money as soon as they had the &quot;Class A&quot; on their licenses.&nbsp; These ones are going to ##### about the company and exaggerate the circumstances of their leaving to try and gain sympathy (to what end, I don&#039;t know...would YOU hire someone who spewed that much bovine sourced fertilizer?).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>And you got your basic instigators who enjoy the relative anonymity of the Internet to distribute their diarrhea of the mouth with impunity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I don&#039;t think the megacarriers are that much worse than anyone else; their &quot;problem children&quot; are more visible because the percentages are applied to much greater numbers.&nbsp; If a 300-truck company has a 6% AQ (####### Quotient), then a 16,000-truck company with a 5% AQ is going to have a lot more &quot;A&#039;s&quot; on the road.&nbsp; The training mentality doesn&#039;t help much...some of the schools are just CDL mills churning out warm bodies to put into the meat grinder.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some who feel that modern CDL certification should require at least a year of training, perhaps two.&nbsp; Maybe an associates degree?&nbsp; Idunno.&nbsp; Wait, what were we talking about again?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies-vb/roundies/biggrin_2556.gif" class="mceSmilie" alt=":biggrin_2556:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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