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Originally Posted by Uturn2001
The problem is not in the schooling, it is in the OTJ training afterwards.
How much training can you get from someone with possibly 6 months experience or from some LP who just wants to turn and burn miles.
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Round and round... it's not 6 months it's a year, from the date of your last preventable, etc, etc, etc.
Not only that, but service failures also, and even with those requirements you?ll have very few people that will elect to become mentors and out of the ones who do elect to try their hands at it, the vast majority of them will bug out after only just one or two trainees, leaving the vast majority of the mentors remaining in the mentor program not only with more than the very laughable and mythical 6 months of driving experience, which is absolutely absurd when you think about it, but actually with years of experience not only being a driver but being a mentor as well. You see?being a mentor isn?t for every one and especially the faint of heart and is a lot more difficult of a job than it seems.
I don?t know where this 6-month myth originates, but it seems to be highly prevalent on the Internet and institutionalized by people who never worked a single day in their life for Swift but nonetheless when it comes to the company or their infamous training program are so-called experts. This site is filled with these so-called experts!
Also?everyone who bugs out of the Swift training programs left only because they were being trained by another Swift driver with only 6-months driving experience who still needed training himself, not because the trainee himself was incompetent, incapable, or decided the job wasn?t for him, because we all know that all student trainees by and large learn to drive the big rigs over the open road very easily and always have very wonderful attitudes.
Moreover, we all know that unlike other major companies, Swift doesn?t like to make as great a profit as possible in order to make its stockholders happy. Instead, it likes to squander its profits away by only hiring horrible mentors with only 6 months driving experience and then burning as many potential drivers as possible. You see Swift?s mission is not to train people to become safe and competent drivers but instead to ward off as many potential drivers as possible or so it would seem!