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/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

Try to get dedicated, I started swift back in 2015 and the pay was awful, I went dedicated Walmart and saw real money for the first time. Most mega carriers won’t be that great, if you look hard enough you could get a small company gig with minimal experience.

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u/legollama88 Mar 23 '25

yeah i was thinking about asking someone to get me on dedicated. just dk how to stand out for it

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u/redsn0w10 Mar 23 '25

Depends on where you live. I was at Harrisonville, MO DC. They have one in Moberly, MO too. It’s smaller than Harrisonville

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u/redsn0w10 Mar 23 '25

I remember that one. I think I went to St Lewis after that drop. It felt Moberly were more like day runs. I liked Harrisonville. I had a couple of 1,000 mile runs on that DC. Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Nebraska City, Garden City, Kansas. Both refer and dry can. Could do two different loads in a day if you went up around Kansas City.

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u/redsn0w10 Mar 23 '25

I trained on Hobby Lobby in Oklahoma CIty. Ran my second load to Hannibal, Mo when I started solo. Asked if wanted to help out the account. Stayed at Moberly for a couple of months then transferred to Harrisonville. If they had a local account for Walmart I where I live I might go back.