Troll much?
Swift is the largest truckload carrier in the country. It's also a starter company. Combine those two, and the raw number of accidents is going to appear to be pretty large.
Compare Swift's accident rate (accidents per x miles), and you'll find they are in line with the other starter companies.
CONSIDERING going with Swift
Discussion in 'Swift' started by lawsonott, Aug 4, 2014.
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Swift is so good last winter on the same day in a 2 hour period with in 100 miles swift had 5 single vehicle roll over accidents in Wyoming,,
As for the 20,000 or so trucks they have and 46 fatal accidents in 24 months,,one fatal accident is too many.. -
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You Swifties may want to try this out being you have no APU's in your trucks... http://www.swampy.net/index.html and this works good if you like ice to all the time http://www.air-n-water.com/product/ai-215ss.htm ...just tryin ta help u out ya know..lol...have a great day ..JJ
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They are like walmart a necessary evil. Good place to get experience and move on. They have all their drivers drinking the kool aid with these new "pay rates" ill believe it when I see it (maybe I just need to look at my check stub lol)
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One thing to consider is that anyone that is driving as a team, whether as mentor or otherwise, is assigned a new truck each year. One year of teaming will put about 250K miles on the truck and they will then want to assign that truck for solo driving for the final two years of service so that the truck will end with about 500K to 600K miles.
You can take home time anywhere you want. Just give at least 5 days advanced notice and the zip code you want for home time and they do their best to get you there on time, but allow variance on the actual date.
In addition to the recent company wide pay increase there are a number of changes that are being implemented and under review. Earlier this week I read a memo posted at my home terminal in Jurupa Valley, CA that outlined dozens of things that have teams of managers and drivers working on making improvements. Some of them are already done or in progress, like the improvements to load planning and dispatch, direct communication with the CSR (customer service representative), more lenient overspeed policy, etc.
Overall I think Swift certainly offers miles if you want to run them. Running solo last year I averaged about 2500 miles per week, when I run solo now it's averaging 2950 miles per week. Team running as a mentor I'm averaging about 5800 miles per week.lawsonott Thanks this. -
Just found out that the jerks at caregan have loaded my DAC with false information preventing me from getting hired. Even at Swift and US-xpress, of all places who take anyone with a pulse.
Ordered a copy of my DAC. Plan to dispute. Anyone got any experience with disputes/repair? How hard is it? How long does it take? Any tips to make my case strong?
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