Feels Good To Be A Rookie Driver

I am a rookie driver with less than a year experience, I started driving July 1, 2012 and had a great mentor with Swift Transportation and learned a great deal about this industry not just from him but also my father who has been driving for more than half my life. That is almost fourty years of experience combined from what I have learned from. I have become pretty successful within two months of driving, got offered my companies highest paying dedicated routes and have succeeded further than all the students I went to school with in this company I drive for and I am also proud of my friends that I have made from the school that I went to, because they themselves followed my footsteps. As a rookie driver I felt that I was a leader of my peers and I help mentor my fellow rookie drivers and they all look up to me and call me to see how I am doing even though I have not seen them since we graduated from school in June. I enjoy to hear from them and answer any questions they have. And the weird thing is they get the same answer from me as they do from their managers. I am always happy to help them and I as well look up to them because not only did they learn from me, I learned from them.

Welcome aboard! Glad to have ya!

Hey, what did your dad think when you told him you wanted to get into trucking? The reason I ask is because all I ever heard drivers say on the CB throughout the years was "If my kid ever wants to get into trucking I'll kill him!"

I loved my years on the road and I have a nephew who is 22 and he's considering getting into trucking. I think it's a great idea. He needs a career and he'd do well at it. But I think I'm the only person I know that would recommend a family member get into trucking.

Welcome aboard! Glad to have ya!

Hey, what did your dad think when you told him you wanted to get into trucking? The reason I ask is because all I ever heard drivers say on the CB throughout the years was "If my kid ever wants to get into trucking I'll kill him!"

I loved my years on the road and I have a nephew who is 22 and he's considering getting into trucking. I think it's a great idea. He needs a career and he'd do well at it. But I think I'm the only person I know that would recommend a family member get into trucking.

He was finally relieved that I finally decided to do it because he has been doing it for 16 years and I recommend it to anyone who likes to travel. I like to travel myself and to top it off I get paid to do what I like to do, travel. An average driver will actually make less than 40,000 their first year to tell everyone the truth unless you get into dedicated routes where you are guaranteed to be moving all the time. I'm looking at 50,000+ my first year all because of my father having pull in the company I drive for and I am very appreciative of him. Brett I have been part of this forum for about a year now when I was looking into going to school in April last year. I would suggest Swift to anyone since it was the only company to give me a chance considering my discharge from the military with an alcohol rehabilitation treatment failure over 8 years ago. They looked at it like a dui and said its been more than five years get your butt here in school and drive for us. Swift is an A+++ company to drive for!

Hey, sounds great! I'm glad Swift is giving you a shot. People seem to like that company quite a bit - we get a lot of good feedback about em.