I"m currently at Swift lease purchase, it's worth it if your'e on a dedicated account like Walmart with pretty much guaranteed miles per week, like he said in the video its a few hundred bucks extra per week but you aint gonna be rich. As for me, I'm OTR, the miles are hit or miss, literally, one week is $1500-1700 next is $400-$800, the planners don't really seem to care if you make good money just as long as loads get done, you gotta look out for yourself. In my opinion they have more drivers then they have loads so somebody is always gonna be sitting around waiting for a load. They don't micro manage you as long as you do what you're supposed to be doing. Everyone is pretty chill, I personally don't care how the office people are as long as I get decent loads and am able to make as much as I can. I have no complaints about any of the people, it just comes down to not having enough miles per week.
What location are you running Walmart out of? Florida? They get more than Texas lease drivers. I did that account last year and they only paid me $.85 per mile. I heard Florida got $.99 per mile. I don’t understand why they just don’t pay you, what OTR makes. I worked out of Temple Texas Walmart. Are they actually getting you 3000 miles?
Pros: Slightly higher pay: 0:57-1:02, 4:55-5:05 Similar day to day operations 0:45-0:54, 7:06-7:22 Opportunity to own your truck 8:16-8:21, 9:01-9:03 Cons: Higher Taxes 1:44-2:17 Limited control 2:24-2:31 Capped earnings 5:32-6:00
Out of trucking school, should I go OTR or like Regional Southeast with swift? I don't want to team drive. I want to drive the country but at the same times don't really want to drive in upper east coast just from living there my whole life, people/traffic is a mess, Yes I am aware that OTR I have no choice on where I go whilst getting some miles under my belt, Just trying to figure this out.
@@EliteMustangGT if your goal is to drive the country for a bit to get experience I’d just go full otr. Going to those places that you don’t want to go to will contribute to becoming more experienced. It’s all part of it. I drove in LA and that sucked because the traffic but it was part of my journey. Gotta go through all of it to become a veteran. I’m from upstate NY myself and driving the north east is bad but so are many other places like Atlanta, dallas, Miami. I started local, went otr for a year, now back local. I’m definitely better off for having experienced otr. Some drivers love it, some hate it, but the point is you’ll be able to make that decision for yourself.
I'm a lease operator with swift RN and its pretty bad, on average I make $500 pr week running 1500-1800 miles. I have to beg for 700 mile loads that are 900 actual with a 3-4 day delivery. I spoke with my driver leader stating i could not continue if it doesn't change, she promised it would and it hasn't. Some weeks I get 600-800 miles for a loss of $500-$700, I do not recommend this program to anyone.
Last year I was driving on the Temple, Texas dedicated Walmart and a one time I head over 4000 miles but some of it went on another check but still 4000 miles. After the first three weeks I started getting regular 3000 mile weeks only as a company driver, but I got tired of driving, 65 mph down to the Texas border. So I jumped into a lease, but I wasn’t even close to what I was making as a company driver. I don’t know if they added Driver or what, but I could barely make over 2200 miles. I run with a European company now out of Illinois and I make $.70 per mile W-2 as a company driver, but the messed up thing is I average about 1900 to 2100 miles a week. I have the bag to get long runs. If I was making $3000 that’s over $2000 gross and probably $1800 a week after taxes. They show me how much they make which is about five to $6000 gross and they probably get about 4500 from that.
It’s really messed up that swift pays their lease operators $.99 per mile in Florida and only $.85 per mile in Texas. I was making more as a company driver on the swift Walmart dedicated account because they were giving me 3000 to 4000 miles a week. When I got my lease truck I barely got over 2200 miles weekly. Maybe that was because the increase of drivers I was seeing, but I stayed on the Dispatcher daily asking about loads. I made about 1475 as a company driver at the most, I should have been hitting over 3000 miles as a lease driver with more responsibility, at least making $1800. They let me go from the account, they said you’re still with the company if you want to be and could not find another account so they offered OTR. I should have stayed and see what their OTR would give me. I had a nice 2023 next GEN Kenworththat went up to 72 mph. I might try them out and get away from these Europeans.
Im looking into joining swift as a lease operator on an otr account, Probably within the next 3 months. Ive seen a couple people here on RU-vid claiming 'over 9k paycheck', what is your experience with that? What about fuel...is that 1500 a week (after the 500 for taxes you mentioned) accounting for fuel too?
@@18_trama as an O/O using DAT I’m averaging 2.1-2.3 otr. Short haul loads I’m averaging 2.8rpm-3.2rpm. Van only. I try really hard never to accept anything under 2rpm. Only will if I have no choice. Can’t sit more than a day or two.
@@TruckerNate97 I am leasing so this the side I know. It's OK, 2 things have to go right. Truck has to be operating, and you have to have at minimum 2500 miles a week. My truck has been down a few times so it's has been rough. Just if leasing you have to keep moving that's about it. The company is ok overall, they don't micro-manage. For me that is a good thing
@teronnierichardson4374 okay so for 2500 miles what would you say your average settlement would look like on a good week? I'm doing the lease as well. I'm actually doing the physical and drug test this upcoming Monday. Obviously I know each week is different due to sliding pay scale but I just want real answers from someone on the average pay.
Just tell us , Did swift help you to be where you are right now? I know you are really careful… Do you have any idea on what’s going on in this world? Does taxes means that much to you…?? all about taxes? why don’t you learn about it…
Yea for some people that may work. Maybe people want to stay on that specific swift account tho. Swift has a bunch of local accounts so if you can stay local to your home and make a few more hundred that’s a solid option
For lease ops? There’s a couple there yea. Arcadia FL is the biggest swift Walmart account in FL for lease ops. Had around 40 when I was there. The thing with cocoa is if they need more drivers on that account or if they’re full. If they’re full they won’t accept company or lease drivers
