Who's The Worst Of Them ALL to work for?

Discussion in 'Report A BAD Trucking Company Here' started by MACK E-6, Jan 28, 2006.

Who's the worst of them all?

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    Swift Transportation.

    22.7%
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    JB Hunt.

    8.8%
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    Werner

    11.4%
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    Covenant Transport.

    5.2%
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    (New) Prime Inc.

    3.8%
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    CR England.

    21.3%
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    Other

    27.1%
  1. jimijam66

    jimijam66 Bobtail Member

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    Just to play Devils advocate heres something I found


    Swift Transportation Co. Inc. announced the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ("FMCSA") has just completed a review of the operations and safety management controls of Swift Transportation Co. Inc. ("Swift"). Upon completion of the review process, the FMCSA assigned to Swift a safety fitness rating of "satisfactory," the highest safety fitness rating given by the FMCSA.

    Robert W. Cunningham, president and chief operating officer, said, "This is fabulous news. We are thrilled to have demonstrated, to the FMCSA's satisfaction, Swift's renewed emphasis on and commitment to safety. Our resolution of this issue will allow us to focus even more intently on our turnaround plan."
     
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  3. Tip

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    Jimi, we should wait on Turbo's confirmation before getting all giddy and heap praise on Swift. He can find out a carrier's safety rating easily.

    No matter what their rating is, I'll never work for Swift again.
     
  4. heavyduty

    heavyduty Bobtail Member

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    Tip, I agree for the most part. Unfortunately for all of us, inside the trucking community and outside of it, is when a "bad" driver does get paired with a "bad" company. They need each other to simply exist. Their lack of compliance and professionalism costs us all dearly. Usually someone loses their life. If you want some interesting reading next time you shutdown...go up to your Yahoo! search engine and type in SAFESTAT. Follow to any one of the links that opens that page. There you can enter any trucking company's name and see their safety reports and status. The numbers you look at will amaze you. Click on the tab for "Accidents" and you can see how many tickets, fatalities, accidents, etc they've actually had. Remember as you view the charts, the higher the number = the worse their safety status is. Enlightening and scary.
     
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  5. Tip

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    Thanks, Heavy. When I get a chance, I'll check out the site. This won't be when I "shut down" next, as I don't drive anymore. I quit driving over three years ago, brother, and don't regret it one bit. When I quit, I even got rid of my CDL. I MIGHT get that back just to have in an emergency, but more than likely I won't. I've been out so long now I'd have to go back to a training school in order to get hired on at a good company. Plus, I'm working overseas and my employers will be hard to contact if I do apply with a Crete, a Reouhl, or a Bulkmatic somewhere.

    Nope, I have no desire to get back into driving. This site has reminded me all over again why I quit driving in the first place.
     
  6. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    It looks like Swift still has it...
     
  7. Joethemechanic

    Joethemechanic Medium Load Member

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  8. Joethemechanic

    Joethemechanic Medium Load Member

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    This is total BS. There are so many companies with unsafe equipment that are not going to fix anything before the wheels stop turning, no mater who you go to see or what you do. And there is no way for a driver to change it because it comes from the top down. There are also carriers who won't get heavy or oversized load permits, and companies who could care less about HOS. The attitude of management is "Do it or you're fired" or "Do it or we will find a way to punish you"

    When upper management has attitudes like that, there is no way a driver is going to do well at that company. You sound like you are either "Green" or else you are a recruter.
     
  9. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    "If you don't do it we will simply replace you with someone who will."
     
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  10. slowmotion1065

    slowmotion1065 Bobtail Member

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    I can't help but to reply to this last reply. My husband had never driven a semi a day in his life before going to driver school. Swift was the first company to pick him up. He started training July of 2005 and got his truck Sept 2005. he is accident free to this day. You guys go with the top companies in the nation yet there are hundreds of thousands of trucking companies out there! I go with Covenant. When you judge, look at the whole picture. I think you've missed something. Here's swift at safestat...http://ai.volpe.dot.gov/SafeStat/AccidentSEA.asp?ais=&DOT=54283&WhichForm=


    lets keep in mind that many things make and break a company.

    please check this out...http://www.trincon.com/report/White Paper - Hrs of Serv-REV with attachments.pdf

    this should answer who really runs the trucking industry.
     
  11. TurboTrucker

    TurboTrucker Road Train Member

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    This is old news, and it was released back in the latter part of last year, by Swift, and mainly for the benefit of the Stockholders.

    The "Satisfactory" fitness rating that was quoted is meaningless, in terms of determining the actual safety fitness of the carrier. All this means is that they have met the minimum requirements that allow them to operate as a motor carrier, as determined by the FMCSA. The worst of the worst have this rating, as long as they meet the minimum requirements. Their play on words as it being something akin to "the highest safety rating given by the FMCSA" is very misleading, but there is nothing new about that. Swift has a fine record of misleading their investors. I remember reading their investor relations package a few years back, and it was comical. If only their investors knew the truth.

    Swift's accident rating was what caused the FMCSA to lower their safety fitness rating, and Swift immediately stepped into court to challenge the way the information was compiled and held against them. They actually had a point, and as a result, the SaferSystem database is being changed to reflect a more fair way to utilize compiled data.

    Does this mean that Swift's actual safety numbers have improved? No. In fact, after the re-evaluation, their ISS-2 number (the TRUE safety assessment number to consider - Click below for and explanation of the ISS-2 rating system http://www.ugpti.org/research/carrier/projects/mcp005.php), which had been lowered to 90 for a brief period of time, went back up to nearly 100, and has recently been lowered to 94. It's still phenominally high, and they are still running a one-in-eight ratio of trucks that are involved in reportable DOT accidents for the previous 24 months.

    Until Swift figures out how to staff those trucks with experienced and safe drivers, their safety numbers are going to suffer. And because they would prefer to exploit newbies, rather than to recruit and keep experienced drivers, their safety numbers will continue to be horrible.
     
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