Swift flatbed company driver 8cpm raise coming Monday

Plant, if I had to guess I would bet Swift makes a big announcement when they announce 2nd quarter profits. Sometime in July or early August.

 

I will today. Have not checked yet.

 

Got hold of this today...


I went from .27 to .32 cpm. However at the six month mark I will be at .41 cpm which is where the .08 cpm raise kicks in. Newbies are getting .30 instead of .26 now with the big kick up at 6 months.

 

What makes a company decide to give the drivers a pay raise? Is it because the economy is getting better? Or are they having a hard time attracting new drivers?

 

It's attracting new drivers and retaining drivers the company already has.

 

It's great for the flatbed people, but I haven't seen anything yet on the OTR side of things.
I'm not even sure where to find the latest rates for OTR drivers. I went on the Swift website but couldn't find it.

Flatbed drivers deserve more, I think. They really do a heck of a lot more work.

 

Several things.

Management sucks, We rehired a bunch more = come back drivers
our former pay sucks = drivers stay here
We have new lanes = We are hiring in your area that we never did before in 50 years, we cut throats.
Bonus referral = Get your dumb friends and family with a license= $1500 ( over 12 months )

or

Swift is a multi-billion company wants to stop turnover ?
Swift profit is respectable. after all these years, they could easily make the turnover rate below 10% by being the nations current largest fleet and the highest paid drivers.
Nah, that's too easy for 5 years.