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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;texasbigbird54, post: 3357554, member: 118100&quot;]Sheriff1/6, I just wanted to thank you for this thread.&nbsp; I have recently spoken with a Swift recruiter and have applied.&nbsp; Reading your accounts of life on the Road as a Swift driver has been extremely helpful to one like me by learning what many of the hardships are that come with the job, especially in the first year.&nbsp; Have you dissuaded me?&nbsp; Not at all.&nbsp; I am basically in an almost perfect situation for this job.&nbsp; I am divorced and not planning to remarry.&nbsp; I have no close family.&nbsp; I don&#039;t really have a home, as I don&#039;t own or rent at present.&nbsp; The only debt I have is one credit card with far less than a maximum carried balance.&nbsp; I love to drive, and I love to travel, and have a clean driving record.&nbsp; My only issue is my hearing, as I have some hearing loss, but I have hearing aids on order that will arrive Aug 5th.&nbsp; I might even hear well enough to pass the DOT physical now, but i am afraid to take it until I get the hearing aids.&nbsp; Anybody, please feel free to offer any experiences with this problem you may have encountered with drivers with hearing loss.&nbsp; I would be very appreciative.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your experiences with Walmart, I worked for them for almost 10 years in five stores in Texas and Colorado, leaving them in 2011.&nbsp; I was in management, and actually helped unload many of those trucks driven by Swift drivers.&nbsp; I know exactly what the drivers experience at store receiving.&nbsp; Fortunately for drivers like yourself, our receiving dept was recognized by award as being the best in district as voted by drivers more than once.&nbsp; After that job, I can&#039;t help but feel that a life on the road driving a truck for me would be an improvement, even with the headaches you have documented.&nbsp; Managing a group of very poorly paid, stressed out associates is no fun, and having a terror for a store manager as I had, the job is practically unbearable.&nbsp; Hopefully we will meet sometime in the future.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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