Swift Transportation Truck Driving Academy - Fontana

"I got my permit through this school yes it's fast paced but they give you the answer in the book to pass for the test . So far so good let's see if I get my actual liscene through them"

"Yet another company managed by fair skinned people, some of whom are bilingual, who discriminate against African Americans. I applied to this company to be a class a truck driver. I have no tickets or accidents and almost two years of experience. I was not selected because I am an African American female."

"These day cab drivers need to slow down. Going 20mph+ is ridiculous in this yard. I was walking and nearly got hit by his trailer. When I confronted the guy he said "where's your safety vest? " the wild thing is not even like 30 minutes later a day cab driver hit a DSW truck and ripped off his mirror and headlight. Overall facility is run down, gates, parking lot, trailer parking all very worn out. Nobody parks neat in between the lines lots of wasted space. No hot water in the showers over weekends. The little Cafe was clearly open at 08:30am I just got a burrito. Then a Caucasian gentleman came up a couple moments later to order and the cooks insisted they were closed and could not serve him. So he gave up and left. Then just a minute after or so a Hispanic guy walks up and orders without any problems. It felt very wrong."

"DO NOT COME TO SWIFT!!! They will send for you to come but if you don't make the cut they won't send you back home and will leave you stranded. They are really inconsiderate of other people time. The class for permit was rushed and they waist a lot of time and leave no room for study time. Oh make sure you study your commercial handbook because they will not study it with you.a lot of people fail that portion. Bring your own money for food and water and if you don't have a car bring money for Uber or Lyft. They don't not help with any of the expenses and Barb likes to play dumb like she don't know anything. If I knew my experience would be like this I would of gotten my license on my own. They make it sound good until you arrive so just keep that and mind. They let the hotel tell me I wasn't going to be a candidate versus them letting me know and I was on campus the whole day. Congrats if you make it through."

"I passed through this school. But overall experience was bad. There was a teacher there that didn't know what she was doing most of the time( I hear she no longer works there) The Trucks are all pretty beat down and old from all the practice that goes on in the training lot. Tend to break down in the middle of training/testing. For example one of the trucks power steering went out during a class test. Which made half of the class fail due to the turning radius being limited. Rainy days are kinda brutal as we all just sit outside in the rain until break comes around. The whole lot gets flooded. (I know it's good training for real life trucking tho.) There's 2 Manual Trucks (2010-2016 VNL VOLVO) and the rest are automatic Frieghtliner(2013-2018). I belive they give you an option to learn in the manual Trucks. But those Trucks are mostly for private students. The classes are large so you'll have to wait a while before you actually get a turn to practice, test or do something with a truck. You do get DMV tested on site when you are done with classes.. Make sure you speak loudly or else you might fail. I also have pictures of the trucks. I think there's a total of 10 or 11 trucks. 2 are the manuals"