Profile For Will P.

I was am 88M from 05-11. As a veteran Swift did not charge me for the schooling or deduct it from my check over time. I do have to stay for a minimum of 1 year in order not to pay it back. I'm planning on going anywhere else and things are fantastic here anyways. Talk to one of the recruiter about it. I think there is even something on the website about it too...kinda briefly then mentions contacting them for details.

I've only been with Swift for 7-8months but seems from my view from the windshield a great company to start with...and stay... got a great DM and still chat with my mentor from time to time. Loads steady and rolling unless I go home. Still havent figured out the miles-pay scale but my cpm is about to change on the upside anyways so I'll wait some more to really figure it out. Averaging over 2k miles a week. Short and long distance. Yeah you hear about the windshield cam and all the safety sensors, speed control and such but all these are in place to make you a more conscious and safe driver...

Over all, I'm sure as most companies, it is what you make it

Congratulations! Yep I'd have to agree with the "just wing it"...especially with the first one...things kinda, just kinda, try to come together the second go round...

I'm in a 2019 international as well. No optimized idle either. I talked to a long time driver and he gave me these pointers. Keep the sleeper curtains closed and the sleeper ac on while driving. Dont open them unless you need to. If it dissipates faster then I'll open my side windows and use the dual head dc fan I got with some handy dany Loves points. It plugs right near the sleeper controls. Keeps air moving through the night. It's hard for me to sleep when it's hot but this does the trick for me.

G-town, Had that happen with Target a few times too. First store breaks the seal and either eggs (or about 10 flats of strawberries/blueberries) tipped and tossed all over. Sent pictures to our dispatch office just to CMA.

Absolutely...I'll take a 2+ hr wait over an accident any day. Still plenty of time to get to my destination.

Started my pre trip this morning and lookie lookie. No curbing, or anything that could have done it. Didnt look like that when I picked it up either but here I am getting it replaced.

My DM gave me a short list(2) of available and ready trucks I could look at and choose from. And another person that I went thru the Swift academy with and got done with her Mentor, different DM, just assigned her one. I suppose it's all in who your DM is.

On a 2019 International LT without opti idle it will start shutting stuff down such as lights and bunk heater however it will NOT prevent the batteries from draining to the point where you will need a jump. When you take your 10hr break go ahead and do whatever you do such as watching tv or what ever but run the truck for a good 30 minutes to charge them before you go to sleep. When you wake up first thing turn the key on and see how much charge you have and start it up to for a little bit to recharge again. Just running the refrigerator should be fine but if you run other stuff such as a fan, lights, tv, laptop etc without starting the truck up for a while or even while you are stopped for 8-12 hours you will kill the batteries. If you have an inverter with a microwave or other appliances always run the truck while using appliances. When you check your voltage when you wake up you dont want to have less than maybe 11.8 volts. Start getting less than that and you will eventually have problems. Again the refrigerator alone shouldn't run your batteries down overnight.

Thanks! It was reading 12.7v on the inverter input display last night and after about 4hrs it had only come down to 12.6v. So I definitely think 10hrs shouldn't be enough to run it down dead. Running it for 30min or so before sleeping is gonna go into effect from now on as well lol.

Is getting a small generator a good idea to run the fridge and whatever else in the future. I'm in mid to southern Southeast. Km at the same Petro from the earlier comments and its showing 96degrees at 3pm est.

Well here goes...truck off, inverter on and input reading at 12.7v. Timer set for 2.5 hours to see how it's doing lol