Originally Posted by lost-in-montana

these posts need a elementary school teacher to break the children up from fighting.

Originally Posted by rdonovan1

Does anyone know much about the investigation that the Feds are doing relating to Swift and their CDL Fraud case that they got busted for by the Feds on February 25, 2008 at their Memphis, Tennessee truck driving school?

I am just wondering because I have an unemployment case this week that relates to Swift.

They fired me last year and gave me a service failure because I told them that I could not run a load on time legally because at that moment I was out of my 11 and they did not like that.

I was not even actually assigned the load only pre-planned on it and for that they should not have given me a service failure. I tried to complain to the DOT, but apparently the officer that I spoke to did not record it and file it for some reason and the DOT does not have any idea as to who it was that I talked to because they do not maintain records of as to who actually worked that day and at that time when I called them and spoke to them about the incident.

I've had nothing but problems with that company basically ever since I started with them as the trainer that they assigned me to had less experience than I did and I personally do not think that they should have even have sent me out with a trainer because I came into the company with 5 years experience under my belt at the time of my hire with them.

This guy that they sent me out with was a complete moron. He kept telling me that I was supposed to log on his home terminal time and I knew that was wrong as he was based out of Cali and I was based out of New Mexico. Those are two entirely different time zones altogther.

He even went on to say that if I did not log on his time, then he would drop me off in the middle of bf Egypt and that was not right of him, but the company just did not care.

I guess that it is little wonder as to why they have gotten themselves in trouble with the Feds as they just don't really seem to know how to communicate with either themselves or their drivers nor do they really respect their drivers eithers and what is even worse is that they do not respect their customer as well as I have had one customer complain to me about a load that was late because Swift assigned the load to me late and that did not exactly make this customer very happy with them.

The customer did not blame me as he knew that it was not my fault as he had already discussed the issue with the company long before I was even assigned the load, so the company knew that he was angry and upset with them for not delivering the kind of quality and service that he expected to get from them.

That was not the first time that I knew about stuff like that as I knew that they did not really care about their customers long before then as I had asked my DM if I could take a route that was shorter and that would have saved both time and miles and he refused.

I also did not like the fact that they constantly keep your fuel level so far down that you are lucky if you do not run out of fuel all because they are afraid of the fuel prices at the pump.

I can understand that part, but that is no reason to keep a driver from putting fuel in their truck so that they can do their job properly and effectly.

Basically Swift is in a nutshell a very disorganized and cheap company and none of them really seems to be able to speak the english language by responding to any questions that you might have in a timely manner.

I'm not quite sure as to what they do all day there, but apparently it is not much. I have even had problems with them losing my log books and even my bills of lading after I had turned them in at the terminal in the drop box that they designated for dropping off trip packs.

I guess that you have to admit that is pretty sad and pathetic of them. I know that I may not know everything, but I personally think that these guys could use a few classes in things like business management, customer service, driver retention, and human resources, and that is not to mention some severe classes in communication.

I guess what really bother me the most about them is that they keep talking about raising the bar, but yet they are either unable or unwilling to raise the bar on themselves and in my opinion that is pretty sad.

Originally Posted by Derrick

Help! I went to oriontation for Swift, recruitder (Mr. Nugent) a few months ago and was not hire now the medical center is trying to get payment from me for the fiscal and drug test, can they do this? [NO EMAILS IN POSTS]

Originally Posted by rdonovan1

Does anyone know much about the investigation that the Feds are doing relating to Swift and their CDL Fraud case that they got busted for by the Feds on February 25, 2008 at their Memphis, Tennessee truck driving school?

I am just wondering because I have an unemployment case this week that relates to Swift.

Originally Posted by Tip

Sounds like a typical SwiftQuit scenario, which explains their pet name.

Good luck with your case. Maybe some of these guys who are cheerleaders for SwiftQuit will show up at the court house or labor board to try to sink your ship. If they do, let us know and some of us will go to your appeal and testify on your behalf. You may see a room full of us debunking the lies.

Originally Posted by rdonovan1

Thanks for the support. I really appreciate it. I just wish that the judge could see that all I have ever been trying to do is to change both myself and my life as I got sick and tired of the way that my life has been in the past.

All that I was trying to do was to learn from my past by understanding both myself and a previous relationship that I once had with a woman that I knew back in high school. I was also trying to figure out how to start my own online businesses and whenever I was not driving I was constantly trying to read and learn new things.

I tried to communicate with my dispatcher relating to things that I did not understand about the company, but he would never tell me a darn thing except to go and look in the driver manual.

I tried to stay available for loads as much as I could, but often times they would send me the goofiest loads that they could find and whenever I tried to find a decent trailer around there, that was like trying to find a needle in a haystack as all of their trailer are POS.

They do not maintain their trailers very well at all. Most of their trailers were so horrible that they would not pass customer inspections and they barely made it past DOT inspections.

Swift is a real piece of work because now they are claiming that I committed misconduct while working for them. They are stating that it is for citations and violations.

I admit that I did get some citations. Most was because of their equipment, but their were a few that I got because of Swift and because the officers just would not listen.

When I left the company I was trying to fight two of the tickets in court, but Swift would not take the fact that I was contesting them into account.

I only got one in which I did not contest that was not a mehanical because I did not know that my membership with ATLA was still good. Had I known I would have fought the ticket instead of giving in and paying it.

Swift even gave me service failures because they did not communicate that I was running late to the Los Lunas Swift Terminal while on a Walmart load and the only reason that I was late was becasue they assigned the load to me late and then expected me to be there on time.

That does not compute. Their logic is very, very flawed in my opinion.

I forgot to mention that I am not perfect and that I really tried my best with that company, but that is not easy when they do not communicate, run you like a dog, don't listen and then when they are done they turn around and backstab you for no reason.

In my opinion they are crazy.