[peeps36]

Swift Trucking is a company that hires people and gives them the training needed to get a class A license. I ran into one of their drivers at a truck stop a few years ago and he could barely speak English. I was shocked when he asked me where to put the pump to fill the truck with diesel fuel. He didn’t know how to put fuel in a trailer truck he was suppose to be capable of driving. That is a scary thought.

[2CAVTrooper]

That’s true.

I’ve dealt with several not-so-SWIFT drivers (as I called them) in the past. They all seemed to be from either Pakistan or Somalia.

[Not just another dumb blonde]

My husband is an o/o contracted to Swift. He has worked for them for over ten years. He also used to be a trainer, and I’ll have to say he’s told me some hair raising stories. He works out of the Lathrop terminal and these students he trains can’t hardly change gears much less read a map. But the most scary part about these alleged students is they pass a driving test through a third party, who signs them off, and not through the dmv (makes you wonder). I’d speculate someones palm gets greased real good. So many of them are not qualified to drive anything bigger than a bicycle, forget about a big rig. He knows within the first few hours if they know how to drive a truck. Unfortunately, most of the time he kicks them off because they don’t know their butt from a hole in the ground. He really knows how to piss off the office when he turns the students back in. He did occassionally get a student who was good, but the bad ones were plentiful.