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

Eckoh when you get a bad trailer do a macro 38 before you hook up to it I picked up one last week that was dameged and before I hooked. To it I sent one in to let them know this also works if you drop one off with a problem.

 

Exactly ... On road makes the call. Not your DM. If you come across a damaged trailer, your first call needs to be to on road and they, with your input, make the decision as to what to do. If they deem the trailer is not road worthy, they will contact the CSR and le them know that load is not going out on that trailer ... that's when you contact your DM and let them know what's going on.

 

Probably not. I know how it is, sometimes you're looking at the junk trailer and just want to get paid for the load on this week's check. Bubblegum and duct tape or whatever gets it to the final for pay. Wire that door-- a roll of tie wire is only a couple bucks at the hardware store. Another trick is to use a 1 inch 1000 pound Working Load Limit ratchet strap that you hook to the door handle then the other end to the tandem slide hole up under the trailer and ratchet the living spit out of it to hold that door against the side of the trailer.

I picked up a trailer once, with no license plate. Sent a message asking what to do , no response. Let's just say the trailer had a plate on it for the trip and no plate on it after delivery lol. Got paid.

I've seen other drivers pick up trailers where 1 or more tandem slide pins would not engage, they made a judgment call after looking at their route with only one weigh station and banking on getting green prepass lights, they got paid rather than lose time getting the junk equipment fixed.

Most of the trailers' registration is soft mush from the rain and will just fall apart when you unfold it during your pretrip. Sent plenty of messages to Permits and/or DM's to fax me a copy to the next truck stop 100 miles down the road and plenty of times, no response. Swift gets a lot of Green lights at weight stations so chance of Level 1-3 are slim.

Bottom line is to protect yourself from the nameless faceless people on the other side of the qualcomm.

 

And if we were all to call on-road with every trailer dent and scratch, what would that accomplish?
I don't think I pick up any trailer without some kind of damage.
Well, 85-90% or so anyway.

It would tie up the system so that every driver with a 'valid' reason to call on-road had to wait a lot longer.
Or it might prompt the 'thinkers' to implement a new system of reporting trailer damage?

Might it also prompt the programmers and others to allow us more time for a proper pre-trip of the trailers, along with the time to report any damage?
Because they don't.
They try to schedule us to rush to the pick up, rush through the inspections, rush through pre-trips and breaks, rush to the destination and rush to the next pickup.
And rush in any way possible until our hours run out.


I guess it is fortunate that the Mac 9 system allows us to adjust the times to what we feel comfortable with.
I accept very few loads without adding at least a couple hours, just to give myself a little cushion.

If having to wait on hold for on-road eats up that cushion there is always Mac 22.


"And if we were all to call on-road with every trailer dent and scratch, what would that accomplish?"
It would send the entire system into a tizzy.
It would make very many loads late, considering the increased wait times on hold to report a minor and insignificant condition.
But it could only work to our advantage if everyone did it, every single time.