Swift ranking system. How to accurately predict when our ranking will go up...

The CPM is based primarily on how long you have been with Swift. There are also short haul rates that are better, to make up for the lack of long miles. You can look at his pay stub on line at the Swift portal to determine what his base rate is and then work from that. With his experience I am sure he did not start at the newbie rate.

 

Bronze driver pics you can see on the walls of the Post Office

 

Status is based on performance during the past year.
In that short time back with Swift your husband did well enough to push him to Platinum status based on a projected overall performance.
At least, that is my theory. Otherwise no one with much less than a year could become platinum. No one can run over 100k miles in a few months.

But in order to retain that status he will have to maintain the average miles, preventable accident and on-time (actually, service failure) ratios.
Zero accidents and 99.5% on-time.
Accidents and service failures roll off after 1 year.
I've had service failures that were not on-time issues, but they counted in the on-time ratio none the less. (Well, one.)

One or two bad weeks could send him to silver or bronze, this early in the game.

 

Bad weeks meaning low miles or being late/accident ect? Also, is the cpm the same for all drivers or does it higher for the different rankings? I cannot find where Swift defines their bonus program. When he worked for Swift before, he was dedicated so there was no bonus program.

 

Bad weeks meaning low miles. A service failure, and / or a preventable accident will keep a driver from attaining the highest ranking. CPM is not affected by ranking as far as I know. If you can access the portal using your hubby's driver code with the last four of his social number as the password you may find an explanation of the bonus program. Look under FAQ or news from the company sections. Sorry I don't know exactly where to look as I am dedicated and don't get the bonus so I never really looked for the info.

 

Swift is in the procces of changing the way they do the driver ranking from what I was told they are trying to get more people from gold. To platnum not sure were to look as to how it works but the terminal manager was showing me this info.

 

Since the bonus is paid on all miles at that ranking, the rank indirectly changes the CPM rate.

And why would they want to get more drivers into platinum status?
It is supposed to be a performance incentive. If they dumb it down it simply means less.
Right now you have to WORK for it! That's how it should be.

And that is kind of what they did with the safety ratings recently.
Listen to a 20 minute lecture from your DM and suddenly your safety score is reduced by 25 points.
Lame, if you ask me. It was just a way to let everyone have a negative safety score.

 

I can kinda see where the "fresh start" class can have a positive impact on drivers. Say for instance your R/A score is kinda bad, not great but also not bad enough to worry about being terminated. If you have a blemished record then what's the big deal if it gets a little more tarnished? So now everyone has a perfect record which gives a little more incentive to keep it that way. At least that's what I think they were trying to accomplish with that.

Now making the ranking system easier to attain a higher rank? That seems silly, but I don't get ranked so it is of little concern to me.

 

i agree with you on this. It ain't easy getting to and remaining Platinum. The title doesn't mean squat to me but the perqs that come with maintaining consistent performance do, like Mac30 and a decent quarterly bonus. I suspect, but am not certain, that there have been certain loads that I was given solely based on my performance level. If you don't meet the standards you shouldn't get the "benefits" and would turn the program into nothing more than "No Child Left Behind".

I didnt need any "Fresh Start" either as my points were already negative. Plus, when I was in for home time and it was convenient to do everyone was busy and it didn't get done. THEN it became a big ##### priority as the deadline loomed and they weren't finished. So now to cover their ###e$ I was routed back to Houston from across the country, arrived on a Sunday morning and had to wait 'till late Monday to do it..then couldn't take a load 'till Tuesday morning and THAT didn't final 'till Thursday. Their lack of planning and then reactionary scrambling KILLED my miles that week and cost me hundreds

My DM cheerfully told me how I was getting $20 for the session..yeah, but I lost $500!!!
Shes really good to me so I kept my game face on but internally I was none too pleased.

 

there are also people at lower rank that should not be there. My rank is tanked at the moment because of a non preventable they put as a preventable on me that i have to get removed. Swift equipment failed causing damage to another truck and they said it was my fault when it was in no way my fault, even a guy on the appeals board said it should of never been a preventable. The sheer amount of red tape they have to keep drivers from fighting such things is stupid.

That is my biggest gripe with swift is they do everything they can to stick it to the drivers to try and get the finger pointed away from them or anything they can. It is just amazing that a freight company which relies on drivers more then anything else and they do what they can to dump on their drivers when they can.