If you join straight from CDL school, you will not be road tested. You will be assigned a trainer and after 6 weeks on the road training, you will take a very easy short road test. After 6 weeks, a road test is small potatoes.
Swift is a good newb company, believe it or not. At Swift, you will travel from terminal to terminal and will not have to deal with the truckstop scum.
The truck you will get after training will be old (mine was a late '90s FLD Freightliner).
After 6 months, you will be in a new Volvo.
If you go in to run as a team, you will get a new truck.
Swift is a good company, you just must stick it out of the newbie phase (6 Mos.)
Another plus with Swift is the fact that you are in a first name bases with your driver manager/dispatcher. You see him in person when you go thru your home terminal. He knows you and you know him and thus, you get treated like a real person, not a number. This is the biggest and most important thing that swift has over the other newb companies.
Good luck where ever you go, but, the burgers and /or steaks don't get better than the ones served up at the "Jake Brake" cafe at the Swift home terminal in Pheonix.
Drive on,
Lon
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