Which company would you go with, Swift or US Xpress?

After 13 months off due to back surgery, and now completely recovered and as strong now as before the surgery, I am ready to go back to work. I recently completed a refresher course. I need to put 6 months driving back under my belt before I can be put on with Interstate, so it is off to whatever driving gig I can get until that time. Both Swift and US Xpress have scheduled me for orientation. I am not concerned with the US Xpress all automatic transmission fleet, as I have a lot of experience with 10 and 13 speed trannys, and can easily re-integrate into a real transmission.

So, (and I'd love to hear from those who have some real experience with either company) which would be a better choice: US Xpress, or Swift?

I've waded through many of the threads, about both companies, within the various topical sections on this forum, so I am pleading with everyone to consider using restraint on repeating what has already been stated before.

My thanks, in advance, for all of your responses.

 

Thanks, chompi, I appreciate your concern.

Neither Swift or US Xpress is going to be more than a quick stepping-stone. My home location is far removed from either the Puget Sound or Spokane hiring corridors for most of the companies around. The quality companies, like my first choice of Interstate, with whom I could have been easily hired onto 6 months ago, have told me that they want me to have at least 6 months back in the saddle before they will hire me. My geographical location, combined with being away from driving for 13 months, has made it a bit of a liability for me to start back where I left off. No biggie.

BTW, this is my retirement career. The potential of a vindictive HR syphilitic chancre dinging my DAC doesn't frighten me in the least. In my previous professional life, I would have to frequently deal with bureaucratic twits and would use that same bureacracy to lobotomze the damage and mischief they had created for the unsuspecting. Good record-keeping and documenting one's actions during employment (including proper resignation protocols and equipment turn-in) goes a long way toward inoculating one from a bad DAC entry based on an employer's grudge.

So given the original question, and acknowledging your concerns, which company would be the better choice?

 

Meaning absolutely no offense, but I would appreciate having folks respond to my post rather than have this thread 'hijacked' into a different direction

 

Given the fact that the majority of those 450,000 companies do not include my small, rural town within their hiring area, and that another large percentage do not even operate in Washington state, or even on the west coast, that is really a moot point. Why I boiled it down to the choices I posed in my question is not really relevant to the question I was seeking an answer for, nor does it mean that those ARE the only two choices which I might decide to consider. It seems that you are kindly advising me that you would not spend 6 months with either, so I thank you for your input.

 

"Both of you (bbqguy and merlin) live in areas where there is an abundance of trucking companies."

To be sure, there are actually very few companies within whose hiring area I am eligible for employ at this time. The number of companies will increase substantially after 6 months of driving.