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Crete 1-year driver: $1,000 gross = 2,524 miles per week X .41 cpm (adjusted 3.5% for practical miles)
Swift 1-year driver: $1,000 gross = 3,026 miles per week X .36 cpm (adjusted 9% for HHG miles)
The Swift driver would have to drive 502 more miles per week to equal what the Crete driver makes. If you think that's a good deal, then have at it. Has Swift stopped dispatching training trucks as teams? Nope, didn't think so.
You must foolishly believe that driving 48 states OTR and being out for 3 weeks or more at a time is the only way to go. Hell?the vast majority of experienced drivers that drive for Swift drive dedicated and are off every weekend and still make more money than they did with their previous companies and they also don?t have to put up with all the rigid rules and hard regulations like they did with all those other companies as well. Originally Posted by ColdFrostyMug
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Hahaha...they only make more money because they're working/driving more. Typical truckdriver logic. :roll: Originally Posted by Toothpick
When I was with Swift I talked to numerous drivers all the time that worked for these companies who paid more per mile or paid practical miles. The vast majority of them said they still made more money driving for with Swift go figure.
Crete 1-year driver: $1,000 gross = 2,524 miles per week X .41 cpm (adjusted 3.5% for practical miles)
Swift 1-year driver: $1,000 gross = 3,026 miles per week X .36 cpm (adjusted 9% for HHG miles)
The Swift driver would have to drive 502 more miles per week to equal what the Crete driver makes. If you think that's a good deal, then have at it. Has Swift stopped dispatching training trucks as teams? Nope, didn't think so.
I know this is hard for you to swallow but there are other ways of earning compensation as a driver than mainly lugging it OTR from one place to another for three plus weeks at a time without visiting the wife for a little loving or at least visiting home to spend quality time with the kids. Believe it or not, but not everyone is like you without a life!
Plus most Swift drivers that I know earn an additional $250 a month in bonuses on top of their mileage rates. Last time I looked which is all the time they are not driving and having to live out of rotgut trucks the likes of which Crete is notorious for issuing.
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stopped dispatching training trucks as teams? Nope, didn't think so.
If Swift finds out that a driver mentor is in the bunk or not in the passenger seat at anytime during the first two weeks of initial training while the student trainee is behind the wheel and the truck is moving, the driver mentor will be automatically terminated on the spot from the company without recourse. stopped dispatching training trucks as teams? Nope, didn't think so.
Indeed, I remember seeing posters posted up at Swift terminals before I left them of a picture of a totally demolished Swift truck that was destroyed when it was being driven by a student trainee while the driver mentor was hard asleep in the bunk with a caption that read below, ?if your driver mentor goes in the bunk for any reason anytime while you are behind the wheel and the truck is moving during the first fourteen days of training, please report him to us because we will terminate that driver mentor immediately on the spot!?
After the initial two weeks of the training period have been successfully completed and only if the student trainee has demonstrated satisfactorily to the driver mentor that he can drive safely and competently over the road will the truck then be dispatched as a team for the remaining four weeks of training.
If the student trainee still is not performing at a satisfactory level after the initial two-week training period is over, he will then either undergo another additional two weeks of training with a different driver mentor depending on the circumstances or be let go altogether. You would be surprised at the amount of student trainees that are let go altogether after the initial two weeks of training is completed.
What?s wrong with that? Other companies, namely Schneider National to name one, releases their student trainees after only just two weeks of training with a trainer to become OTR solo drivers. How safe can that be? Yet their training program still enjoys a decent reputation?
Still other companies team them up with another student trainee that has also successfully completed the initial two weeks of training and then runs them as a team for the four to six weeks of training that is remaining. A practice that fell short of Swift?s higher standards and thankfully a practice they ended years ago, but other companies to this day still very much stick and adhere to this regimen.