Comments By Maverick (Tom H).

Well my cherry has been popped met my mentor at the terminal last night around 11pm in Fontana he drove to go pick up our load in Perri's ca and then drove to banning and asked if I wanted to drive and I jumped at the chance so I took off down the highway and drove for 5 hours thru the night and arrived in Phoenix around 6:30 am ish what a rush that was time to get some rest so I can finish out my hours later

Well done!

thank you

OK so as I was going through this training I realized the there was really no difference in what was going on than what Mr. Smith wrote about his experience with the swift academy here in Fontana so I did not continue the day to day log. But as of today I am now the proud owner of a class A CDL what an experience it was and I found it to be a fun and enjoyable experience as well. Now I am waiting at the Swift terminal for a mentor not sure how long it will take but am excited for the next chapter in this career

day 1

Start at 7am everyone is in a big classroom upstairs and they give you paperwork for the school repayment and take each student one at a time and copy their license SSN card and any permits and med cards you have if you don't have your med card then you redo it with their physician.

While waiting for the physical you sit in the big room and they play different safety videos. Here is a good note before you come make sure you have a good phone number to the office of your primary physician along with a good fax number in case the physician here needs to have your physician sign a paper that you are cleared to operate a commercial vehicle. I had to do this because I am on blood thiners , they just needed to make sure my condition was under control.

Thanks for the encouagement , I am currently on the grey dog headed up to Fontana from San Diego it is only a short 3 hr bus ride not like those long rides guys take to get to prime, let's get this new career started....

Hey Scott, How was that first week?

Got the call today that I've been waiting the weeks to get. I've officially been accepted into the Old Dominion family! I'm so excited!

CONGRATS

I have made the choice to leave swift before finishing my first year. I did not want to when this other company first offered me a job, however swift did some things that just made it very hard to keep with them in the face of the new offer.

Basically it works out to a 9cpm pay raise for doing the same job and according to the drivers i have talked to the same average weekly miles. Also the new company has or allows you to have everything swift says you cannot such as pets and power inverters.

I am giving more then 2 weeks notice with Swift and will turn the truck in at a terminal to make my departure as professional as possible despite some of the unprofessional people i have dealt with at swift.

What happened at swift to make you leave

That is awesome to hear, Congrats on making it solo, I leave Monday from San Diego to go to Fontana and start school on Tuesday, I have been following your posts religiously, love hearing about your experiences. Hope my experience is similar and all goes well. Stay safe and keep the wheels turning.

Hey there Mr. Smith, how's it going out there on the road?