Swift Transportation Company, Inc. - Phoenix, Az.

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While they aren't a daily occurence, I have seen enough of the W-900's running in Swifts colors to accept them. They are no where near as common as the Volvo's are, but they are around. Just keep your eyes open, you'll see them running around.

 

Mack's right. The gravy train will end soon enough at this terminal. What happens then, Mad? Will we see those big KWs on TruckPaper's site? What about you? Where will you go? It may be hard to find a good company if you live near the Q.

 

Turbo, here's a quote from your earlier post:

".....if they cared enough, Swift could learn a thing or two by reading what they look like, in the eyes of drivers, in order to clean up their kitchen."

I agree. Swift should take into account their own reputation in the minds of drivers out there. Swift SHOULD care about its drivers.

But they don't need to.

Jerry Moyes and Swift have been in business since like 1965. Swift knows it doesn't HAVE to make drivers happy. It has a colossal marketing arm to complement its army of lie-spewing recruiters. This, and the fact that only a few newbies ever show up on sites like this to read the warnings about Swift, mean that Jerry Moyes will always have a supply of naive suckers to fill the seats vacated by ex-Swift drivers who've quit recently. This is Swift's only concern really. Filling those seats. And they do a good job of that.

"Lots" of drivers come here and read the warning posts and contribute their own posts. I mean 2000 viewers or posters sounds like a lot, right? Baloney. The number of people who come here and view posts are a drop in a bathtub compared to how many drivers work actively in trucking. Maybe 0.1% of the drivers who NEED to come here and view these posts actually do. If that number climbed to, say, 25% or even 50%, Swift would start "caring" about its drivers real quick.

 

I have seen quite a few Swift KW W-900L's and a few KW T-2000's. up here in new england. 8)

 

Turbo; I think this is a great site!

 

TT, that is exactly one thing I don't like about these "types" of sites.

Too many moochers. Not enough contributors.

Folks will come to a place like this, get some good info, and leave nothing for someone else who is coming behind them. If guys are coming here because their companies suck and they're trying to escape, they should at least throw up red flags about those companies, especially if they use the site for their own benefit. I wouldn't want to end up at these people's companies, so I'd appreciate the heads-up.

 

Perhaps someone at the site could "edit" posts from those that need editing. I know you guys already have enough on your plates to be taking time out to correct somebody's bad English, so maybe this wouldn't work well.

I guess people should be persuaded they can post here and no one will think they are 'stupid', at least in the real way. I was 'stupid' with a lot of the moves I made in trucking, sure. But with me and with everyone else, no one really knows anyone else here, so it's moot. Post away, I say. Screw what others think, as long as one is truthful in his posts.