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Originally Posted by cpl14
Any insight on this division of Swift?
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I worked with Swift for four months in the Flatbed division. Swift has three main terminals for Flatbed, Greer SC, Gary In, Phioenix AZ. I will tell you that you will have a three day orientation, than it will be followed by a two day tie down class. After which, they will eaither send you home for a week (cause they can't find you a mentor) or so or you will go out with a mentor right away. Your training will last for six-weeks/seven weeks. Most trainors will make you drive at night, once you start driving team. Unless your trainor is from your area, do not expect to be home for 6-8 weeks. You will haul a lot of steel coils out of Gary, out of Greer, you will do a lot of Freightliner frames, not sure with Phioenix, but you will also go to Laredo, TX a lot and that is a main drop yard for Central/South America. You will be paid like $350 your first week, than $50 more every week after that till you get to $500, than you will top off at that till your done with your training. Swift is a fair company, but it is terrible at getting you home. Home time is why I left Swift, but if you want to good training, Swift is a good company to start with. There are negitives with every company, but it was a pain with Swift in that you would have fuel routes and you would have to stop at this station or that station. Don't believe for a minute that they are 50 miles out of the way, cause that doesn't make sense. Anyways, good luck and remember, in flatbed, you can do it right a million times, but it is the 1,000,001 time that you killed someone and the other million times right doesn't mean a thing.