Profile For Ricky P.

I have done both dry and reefer. With swift. I find dry is mostly drops and Hooks. With loads going about 3 to 6 hundred miles on average. Reefer dose have more stops on it but we get paid stop pay. My loads average about 1000+ miles. I have found I get more miles per week reefer then I do dry van. Reefer is more otr, and dry seems to be more reginal. Depends what you want. I like reefer because even now in the slow time of year I am still running my 70 out.

Sweeet. That's what I like to hear lol.

When I drove for Swift I generally dealt with dry van, but every once in a while they'd throw a reefer on me. And in my experience, reefer was really annoying. You'd often have multiple stops in one trailer, and multiple temp zones within that trailer, so getting unloaded means digging through layers of product since stop #1 could have stuff in zones A, B, and C. Have fun with that. I'll stick with dry van.

Thanks for the info.

Finally got my cdl after 3 weeks of being here at the Swift company sponsored training & start orientation on Monday.

I have one question though; what are the pros & cons for SWIFT reefer & dry van divisions? I want to go into the right one for my situation. And what I would fit into best

I will update what happens. I will disclose what medication I'm on before drug test. I have prescription with me.

Bump. Need an answer by tmw please

Also my Dr has just prescribed me w xanax this week, and it doesn't show on my physical that I took weeks back. I told my recruiter and she said not to bring it up at all since they pretty much just drug test for marijuana, meth, opioids and what not. Is this true? I just want to make sure.

Richy the salt lake city terminal. Is the old central terminal. Most of the time they send students out there to do an accelerated course usually 2 weeks. First 5 days taking a written test if its not done already, then pretrip, backing, and road driving. It used to have doormess onsite that they would put students in still might, and a caffitaty. Pack for winter this time of year. Thermals, water proof foot wear. Heavy duty socks, jacket, water repellent, Sun glasses that snow can be blinding, Sun screen. Hat and gloves. Dress in layers It will be 10 degrees at 6 am, and 45 in the afternoon, that Sun makes It feel a lot hotter. It is the biggest terminal out side of Phoenix. Anything else I can help with ask and I will try.

Thank you for the very useful information!

Thanks Errol, also nice to meet you! Have seen some great information from you in other threads and glad to have you around.

I live in savannah, GA and swift has me going alllll the way to salt lake city this upcoming monday via greyhound😩, although it is very beautiful out there, for company sponsored training. I've searched and searched and havn't found much information about this campus for training and how it is. If anyone has any information of how each week goes that would be awesome as well as what to expect and/or helpful information on what to pack etc...

I will also be making a thread of my whole experience in the future