Just hang in there and put up with it. I know it sucks but you'll just end up doing the whole thing all over again. I'm sure you will get your trainer soon and before long you'll be on your own and won't look back.

[southernpride]

I may be getting a mentor today.... If this guy doesnt work out, it'll be Thursday... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR..............

[matcat]

Hang in there! Our orientation has 35, they expect 9 to 10 mentors to be ready tomorrow! Everyone that does NOT get one is bussed home to wait up to 2 weeks, I am going to tell them tomorrow if I dont get one right off the bat that I want them to ship me off to a terminal, city, whatever that DOES have one. I have been talking to a lot of mentors that pop into the Jonestown terminal, stay at this motel, etc, and they all say the same thing, tell the coordinator you want a mentor NOW and you will go WHEREVER you have to go to get one, and they will bus you out to a different terminal or ride along in a truck with someone heading towards a terminal with one if one is sitting there. At any rate, I got to get my bags ready for tomorrow, everyone has to PACK UP and bring their bags to orientation tomorrow to either go with mentor or go home, and I got to get up early, and its late! Good luck, stick it out, and BTW there is a guy here that worked for CRST, BAD IDEA.

[matcat]

Woohoo! Finished Orientation, and got assigned a mentor right away. I leave out with my mentor tomorrow. I'm excited and ready to get started!!!

[LennyD]

If you're already feeling iffy about Swift... just wait until you are solo.

Cut your losses now and go with TMC.

[boneebone]

Originally Posted by LennyD

If you're already feeling iffy about Swift... just wait until you are solo.

Cut your losses now and go with TMC.

Why, did you work for TMC before or is it just hearsay?

[LennyD]

Originally Posted by boneebone

Why, did you work for TMC before or is it just hearsay?

I'm working for them now, and I know 2 of their drivers pretty well who have been with them a little over a year.

I've also talked to many other drivers who came from Swift (or insert other bottom-feeder mega carrier name here) and there hasn't been a single one of them tell me they'd like to go back.

Seriously, how does someone with access to information here choose Swift flatbed over TMC to start their trucking career?

Your 5th raise at Swift might equal your starting pay at TMC.

[boneebone]

Originally Posted by LennyD

I'm working for them now, and I know 2 of their drivers pretty well who have been with them a little over a year.

I've also talked to many other drivers who came from Swift (or insert other bottom-feeder mega carrier name here) and there hasn't been a single one of them tell me they'd like to go back.

Seriously, how does someone with access to information here choose Swift flatbed over TMC to start their trucking career?

Your 5th raise at Swift might equal your starting pay at TMC.

LOL, You wish you made as much as I do, Keep on dreamin, chump. LOL

I've been driving alot longer, (13+years exp.) than your measly 1 year OTR, so wherever I go, I will always make more money than you, whether I am a Company driver or O/Op, so don't think you can come on this forum "thinking or trying" to bash me with your comments because you will always be in a league beneath me.

Secondly, I'm not even here trying to compete with you or anybody else on this forum, If TMC or whatever company you work for, after you start whining and quit in a few months makes you happy or sad, more power too you.

All you say in your posts is complain and whine or put others down, learn to respect others and yourself, before you come with your rookie attitude and think you know everything attitude.

Great you finally quit and you have a new job. Now can the whining stop? People have 1 year OTR, and they think they are supertruckers, gimme a break. LOL

Maybe one day you will not need to have a pacifier in your mouth :cry: and wear Depends when you are driving, so grow up. Wah Wah. :cry:

I'm out, don't have anymore time to waste on this rookie.

[LennyD]

Colts, I wouldn't ever go digging through his old posts to see what you are talking about so I'll just take your word for it. I'd rather pleasure myself with a cheese grater.

I've clearly struck a nerve with something I said.

If I was in my 13th year running o/o for Swift I'd be pretty pissed at the world too, you can't really blame him.

I've made some "rookie" posts that someone looking to join the industry would find informative, yet an experienced driver might say im whining or complaining... I don't really care either way. I'm just giving my opinion and writing what's on my mind

Bone, your words above are those of a man giving his concession speech. GG to you (NOT)

[matcat]

I've only technically been working for swift for 2 days now, and waiting on my mentor now for those 2 days and sitting around the terminal, I can honestly say that 99% of people that have beef that work for Swift, is because of their own combination of laziness, poor planning skills, and poor attitude. 100% of both company drivers and O/O and lease drivers I have seen that are happy and making GOOD money, have a great attitude, work hard, and are damn well organized. Not that I am saying Swift is some great company, I see a lot of things I don't agree with or particularly like, but at the same time the oppertunity is there to use it has a great way to start out with NO experience and gain some.