I had my first mentor pick me up right at orientation in Memphis ( I am attached to the Menasha, WI terminal)........ had to leave my car in Memphis (will pick it up after training) The first mentor was a total a** and I asked to be taken off his truck after one week (if interested my journal of that experience can be read at my personal web page: http://home.new.rr.com/kuettel/Training%20Journal.htm )

I am now with a "sane" mentor and things are going very smoothly. BUT I did need to sit at home a week waiting for the second mentor. Swift is very short of mentors right now, and the schools are graduating students at a high rate, so you could sit up to 2 weeks waiting. Some in my class sat almost 3 weeks..... others gave up and went to other carriers that would pay off the schooling for them. As long as you can afford to sit and wait, that would be your best bet for now. As far as I can find out I am the only one that got a rotten mentor. All the rest that I have spoken to are very pleased with their mentors.

If for some reason they give you a bad mentor DO NOT be afraid to ask to be removed from the truck. They really don't mark that against you!! Some mentor/trainee matches just do not work.

Most of the others in my class understood that Swift is a company for newbies...... and most of us don't really plan to retire from there. We could all be surprised, of course, as Swift has been making improvements and increasing the pay and such.

Best of Luck to you!

Swift
 

Funny I just finished class in Memphis but no mentor But what is really funny is the cars parked over in the fence are being stripped a couple with no hood and tires are gone. Not to worry but may wish your car wasn't there.

I do wish my car was not in Memphis. There were already several tireless cars in the lot when I left.

I wonder if that is vandalism or just what a Tennessee carlooks like? In any case I do have full coverage insurance. s*i*g*h

The plan is to drop me back off in Memphis when I am done training to finish me. And, yes, I did tell them I had my car there, so I have no idea why they had my mentor pick me up there.

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Sanity in a co-driver, or mentor is way over rated. The sane make for dull teams. Of course, I ran teams for the better part of 20 years so I guess I really know very little about the sane, but they are boring after a few days. Sides you feel bad if you pull away while a sane person is answering one of natures emergencys proped up on some cold guardrail with her draws around her ankles. :lol: oops sorry dear, promised to never mention that. :oops:

ROFLMFAO And just why was she answering that call at a guardrail instead of a real bathroom? I hope you at least left her a roll of TP or some Kleenex.......lol lol lol lol

time and truckstop food, often wait for no man....or woman. I only pulled up about 60', and I paid, and paid, and paid...........still am paying, but damn it was worth it! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I am still waiting for a mentor..but I will be patient...while I was waiting today I went to Dept of Trans, Iowa DOT and Switched my CDL over to my home state...and while I was there I took the Doubles and Triples test,and the Tanker test, and passed and added the Endorsements to my CDL, also got the ball rolling on the Hazmat Endorsement, passed the test and got fingerprinted and now waiting for the all clear.

I am about broke so I hope Swift comes thorough for me with a mentor so I can get to work....If they don't I may be forced to look elsewhere, but really don't want to do that...would really like to finnish what I started....Ya Know!!!!

Good Luck to you all and thanks for the support ...over and out....CLOD

Oh and Yeti


That was cruel ....but funny... :D