Swift O/O Load Board

Kansas is on the pike pass now I've went through there fine with pike pass.

 

@MysticHZ what's the status on this, are they still using it. Look like something down my alley, really getting tired of how the planners and dispatch baby us and the way they send load. I know I can do a lot better if I can contact the brokers on my own. Anybody have more info on this, how do I get on this program? a driver gave me a broker number few months ago but my phone kick the bucket and I lose everything in their. Anybody have a broker number?

 

Thanks for that info. Well appreciated

 

I got on the list and was signed up through the link on the Facebook page for Swift O/O, but that was a couple years ago.

I have to warn you, its not what you think its going to be. It won't pay you anything more than what the current Swift rates are. They have been given orders not to, so O/ops don't entirely use the load board.

Plus, I feel they only get the bottom of the barrel crap for freight, the kind that nobody else wants to handle or even mess with. The loads are in usually hard to find and get into places, long waits for either loading or unloading, all kinds of hassles and bs to put up with on one end or the other. Plus they are usually only good for a one way trip. Meaning they can get you sent somewhere, then leave you with nothing, and depend on Swift to get you moving and back out of where ever you are stuck.

Lets face it, while we're out here, we all hear of the $2 and $3 per mile freight rates some drivers are getting from other broker loads. That will never happen with any load from the load board. So don't get your hopes up thinking your going to make way more and have more by getting on the load board. It's a joke! The only people making the real money are the brokers at Command and Swift, its still not us for all the work we do,

This is the real truth. I picked up a load in PA going to Fl, while at the final I spoke to a guy next in line, he also picked up at the same place and it was also a Command Broker load. I asked him what rate he got, his truck and company got a $1000 more for the exact same load as I got. And I have even gotten a hundred or a little more than other Swift O/ops cuz I btch'd and complained a little to the broker, then compared rates with the other drivers and laughed how they made less, but still how we all are getting ripped off, every one of us!

The load board concept would be great, if the broker did actually pay us fair and competitive rates, but it doesn't work that way.

So again, don't get your hopes up. It's not what you think it is, or what you think its going to be.

don

 

Don is absolutely right about the Command load board and I challenge any owner to prove us wrong . Command is only an option if you want to move your truck to a better area for a bit more than deadhead and less than Swift pays for empty and loaded .

I no longer run Command loads even if I'm stuck because I simply will not voluntarily be taken advantage of by those scumbags . I'll sit before that happens .

I'm still not sure if it was Command cutting the rates or Swift requiring them to cut the rates . I had and have a good relationship with my Command broker but I'm also enough of a realist to question the word of someone paid commission explaining how they cannot pay more than Swift allows .

The Command Transportation load board was a great option at the beginning . We could negotiate the rate for a load and it was usually more than Swift would have paid for the same miles . In January , 2015 , I ran nothing but Command loads but by June I was done .

Someone at Swift came up with a great concept ; someone else at Swift once again ####ed us .

 

Prove your 20% premium on any Command load and I'll buy you a steak dinner , pal . You have my phone number . Text me a PDF of the top section of your settlement with everything blacked out except the Command load/s. I'm calling bull #### on this and I look forward to meeting you in Las Vegas this spring to settle up at Orleans .

I do completely agree with what you said about not dealing with planners and keeping a good trailer . The detention doesn't suck either .

Frank

 

Thanks for all the replies. I will give it a try at least use it when I'm just sitting or when I'm going home. One of the biggest problem I'm having is getting loads to take me home. I also notice that swift make it hard to make money if you not a trainer. That's their model I can't knock them for that but an o/o or l/o shouldn't feel like they are forced to train to make money. When I have a student on the truck I'm always stacked with loads if I run a week or two without a student they don't keep the truck moving.