Comments By J. Snow

If the company also said-'oh and btw, installing these cameras is going to save us 100 gazillion dollars every year, so we are going to share that with the drivers in the form of increased CPM' I think the concerns the drivers have might vanish pretty quickly. Not gonna happen-but it would be nice.

Sorry- one too many 'justs' in there... lol

I'm going to Swift tomorrow to start orientation this week. Every company is different and every person is different, so don't pay much attention to what others have said. And let me say-that I picked Swift for family reasons and based on what I've read about them. LOL. They were on my short list with Werner and Stevens. Not a last resort by any means.

I did school on my own. The first thing they did was run the 'standard' background check. If there was something bad on it we would have ended our trip right then. Also-don't rely on the drug tests you can get at Walmart/CVS. They will show a negative result but the test used by the lab could still show positive. The ONLY way to be sure is to be clean for the required amount of time. I think the best thing you can do is get some clean time under your belt, then you just have to deal with the record-that may or may not be an issue. Tackle one issue at a time.

Just

You need 45 days clean to be sure you pass your UA. Plain and simple. If you got one pre-hire, you can get others. Just keep at it. I smoked to mitigate pain because of knee surgeries. So I had to wait. Everyone has their own story and it's just that-yours. Good luck.

:)

So it's a 5 day trip... :)

UA vs Hair testing list here...

Delay the start of your training until you KNOW you will be clean. Otherwise there is just no point of going. If you fail, you'll be done in this business before you start. Schneider does hair follicle testing. That generally goes back 90 days. Other companies only do UA testing. But the thing is you gotta be clean before you even start this biz-and stay that way. If you can't don't bother. :)

Without doing the math-I'd say that's at least a 4-5 day trip...

Well you are not driving 2891 miles in that short of a time frame. I saw that first.