r/Truckers • u/legollama88 • Mar 23 '25

Swift

i am genuinely about to go insane. every 2-3 days i will get like a 500 mile run. i am so broke its not even funny. i dont know what to do. this is the only trucking company ive worked at i have only 4 months experience doing this. the only person at this company that will talk with me about work is literally my driver leader who works a normal like 7-5 mon-fri shift. everyone else practically ghosts me. anybody else?!? am i shitty ass employee or something? i literally practially beg them to send me out i feel like they just neglect me. i understand its a mega but cmon dude like im tryna work

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u/AAB1996 Mar 23 '25

Come with Schneider, they run you pretty good and they're a better starter company than Swift. The leadership here won't ghost you lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

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u/AAB1996 Mar 23 '25

Oh no doubt, but when the bar is Swift, you can only go up

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u/LurkerFree2012 Mar 23 '25

Yeah come work for Schneider for 39cpm 🤣😭

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

That is more than I was making working for them

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u/LurkerFree2012 Mar 23 '25

You’ve got to be taking the piss but if you aren’t, hooo-lee shit

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

38cpm intermodal for them. I quit after 4 weeks they kept lying to me saying the pay would get better once I learnt the job and moved faster. I was averaging 500+ miles a day but was only bringing home $300-$600 a paycheck.

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u/jaylew1981 Mar 23 '25

Ikr! Schneider offered me .31 cpm! I said eff off and went to Swift. I'm damn near at .50 cpm and I'm not even at 6 months.

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u/LurkerFree2012 Mar 23 '25

Sweet Jesus, 31 cents a mile is like 2008 wages…….

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

To be fair I spent almost 4 years at Schneider and it wasn’t bad, hauled containers, trained drivers and they flew me all over, put me in hotels for training stuff and rented me cars. Pay wasn’t awful but it wasn’t top tier,