Lost! Back To Waiting Point ;(

Flatie, nothing will make a company move faster than finding out they're about to lose a driver to another company. I wouldn't hesitate to contact any company interested in hiring you and go with the one that sends you a bus ticket like Errol said. If you've really got your heart set on Maverick you can land one or two other opportunities and call them back with one last chance to land you. Let em know you're taking the offer you have if they can't get you to class first.

But honestly, don't sweat which company you go with. Everyone gets it set in their head that they've found the perfect company but once you've been in the industry for a little while you'll see that all of that was pretty much a fallacy. ChickieMonster was literally on the verge of walking away from the company she was with because she was hearing nightmare stories about them but she wound up staying and things have worked out very well for her and she's glad she stayed. And of course we've had many, many drivers start with one company, leave for greener pastures, and return to their first company a few months later when they realized the pastures weren't any greener after all.

So don't sweat it if you don't wind up with Maverick. It won't matter - you'll see. It's a performance-based industry. As long as you perform it won't matter who you work for. You'll get your training, you'll get your miles, and soon enough you'll have enough experience to land 1,000 different jobs if you're looking to try something else. No big deal.

Flatie, nothing will make a company move faster than finding out they're about to lose a driver to another company. I wouldn't hesitate to contact any company interested in hiring you and go with the one that sends you a bus ticket like Errol said. If you've really got your heart set on Maverick you can land one or two other opportunities and call them back with one last chance to land you. Let em know you're taking the offer you have if they can't get you to class first.

But honestly, don't sweat which company you go with. Everyone gets it set in their head that they've found the perfect company but once you've been in the industry for a little while you'll see that all of that was pretty much a fallacy. ChickieMonster was literally on the verge of walking away from the company she was with because she was hearing nightmare stories about them but she wound up staying and things have worked out very well for her and she's glad she stayed. And of course we've had many, many drivers start with one company, leave for greener pastures, and return to their first company a few months later when they realized the pastures weren't any greener after all.

So don't sweat it if you don't wind up with Maverick. It won't matter - you'll see. It's a performance-based industry. As long as you perform it won't matter who you work for. You'll get your training, you'll get your miles, and soon enough you'll have enough experience to land 1,000 different jobs if you're looking to try something else. No big deal.

Thank you for the encouragement brett. That's really a great advice. I moved on , I'm currently studying Swift Transporation module and get the DOT and Physical after this and she will schedule me for orientation at TN. I regret wasting a month of waiting because of grass is geener :-/ I will let you know about the update. This is just another lesson for me and won't this lesson turn me down.

Just because Swift will send you to school doesn't necessarily mean thay will put you on the pay roll. Ask if a trainer will be available. You owe them for that school and when something is available you got to take it. If that means sitting at home for a month, you can't go with another company, without paying them for you school. Old School mentioned freight is slow. Swift has a lot of students that means a lot is going to be weeded out!

Bucket, where are you getting all of this Swift paranoia stuff from all of a sudden? We have quite a few people here that drive for Swift and no one has mentioned anything about Swift having "too many schools" or people waiting for a month or more for a truck or anything of the sort.

Where is this coming from?

I'm not saying Swift isn't a good company. They are one of my top four. Joseph ask if Swift was a good or bad company and Eckoh stated freight was slow right now and a truck might not be available. I was saying check if a trainer would be available. Maybe I should add if one isn't, what are the options. I'm scheduled to start training Wednesday the fourth. I have pre-hire from US Express and Swift. XPO and Werner both said let them know when I have a couple weeks left in school and they would get me to orientation. Averitt and Schneider have positions. I'm not saying there are not any jobs. Maverick has ads hiring in Oklahoma. I believe in the glass division. Just be careful of pitfalls, when talking to recruiters. There is nothing wrong with any of the companies I mentioned, and hopefully I'll soon be working for one. I can't ask which to choose, but I think XPO may because they have made me the best offer in writing.

Bucket had misinformation:

Just because Swift will send you to school doesn't necessarily mean thay will put you on the pay roll. Ask if a trainer will be available. You owe them for that school and when something is available you got to take it. If that means sitting at home for a month, you can't go with another company, without paying them for you school. Old School mentioned freight is slow. Swift has a lot of students that means a lot is going to be weeded out!

Let me re-write it. Bold/underline parts are my personal knowledge, not something I "heard":

Just because Swift will send you to school you're all but on the pay roll. Ask if a trainer will be available. (Swift has lots of trainers, but no guarantee.) You owe them for (deleted) school* and when something is available you got to take it. If that means sitting at home for a month, (fantasy: you can't go with another company, without paying them for you school). Old School mentioned freight is slow. (It is for everybody but by the time you're ready for solo it'll be summer and everybody's rolling.) Swift has a lot of students that means a lot is going to be weeded out! (But that so-called "weeding" happens at every company.)

*School tuition is "stepped": If you walk out in the first three days is no charge, not even hotel. The "price" steps up as the days pass till you would owe the whole tuition anyway.

Bucket, you're up to your old tricks, laying out bogus information as if it's the truth. Where do you get that info? The internet??

Flatie, to your original question to me:

Food: you are 100% on your own after that first free lunch. Most take the shuttle to the Walmart for groceries.

Paychecks: you get paid starting the third day is orientation. Driving with your trainer you get hourly pay, once a week (the week after. Pay cut-off is Wednesday. Your work in the week to Wednesday gets paid the next Tuesday. (On the Qualcomm on Fridays you can get a message with your paycheck total.)

Eckoh stated freight was slow right now and a truck might not be available

That was the other one. I knew I had heard two odd things about Swift today and I was thinking Bucket said both. This was the other one from Eckoh.

I'm putting a moratorium on rumors. Everyone stop with the speculation. If you have solid facts and first hand experience, by all means share it. If anything you say has to start with, "I heard...." then please don't say it. We're trying to stick with the facts and not confuse people with rumors and speculation.

Prime has classes every monday. I got the call from. The recruiter on Wed and was on the bus that saturday. Best decision I ever made. Good luck

Check out Millis. If they hire out of Ok. Prob have to do Texas school.