Pros
I've been here for 2 years and I really don't see any upside to this job. I was making 40K a year before this job, and now I make less than I did before I started driving a truck. I drank the kool-aid and I've come to my senses. It really hurts that I've done everything right, accepted every load, never had a service failure and still don't make jack.
Cons
Unbelievably low pay for the sacrifices I make. Away from friends and family, risking my life everyday, missing holidays, nothing to look forward to, when you finally get hometime it is spent doing things like going to appointments, getting a hair cut. No recognition at all other than an automated message on your Qualcomm saying you had a good month, ha! They say non-forced dispatch.. but it is. Take an extra day at home and you will be ridiculed about how you need to be on the road (put numbers on their board) from a driver leader who gets to be home everyday with their family with weekends off. Zero empathy, Zero respect. Oh yeah, respect? Don't worry you won't find it driving here, just because you drive for swift. Doesn't matter how safe you are you will always be a bad driver with the swift logo. Long story short, keep your job, look around and count your blessings. After 2 years of this I would much rather have less money in my pocket living a happy life than take a job driving a truck for swift, living in a jail cell on wheels completely isolated from the world surrounded by nasty truckers. Dont like your current job? Try something new, just don't go trucking.
