Couple wins verdict against Swift Transportation - Truckers' Trucking Forum

Cybergal · **^ Top** #1 12.01.2008

Kansas couple wins verdict against Swift Transportation
12/1/08

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A Kansas couple was on the winning side of a $23.5 million verdict awarded by a federal jury in Wichita in a trucking accident dispute.
Terry and Donna Frederick sued Phoenix-based Swift Transportation Co. after an accident on a rural New Mexico highway on March 16, 2006.
Terry Frederick was a passenger in a Yellow Freight tractor-trailer that ran into a truck operated by a Swift driver who allegedly had backed onto a highway after unsuccessfully making a left turn into a highway rest stop.
More >> http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/s...01/daily8.html

Baack · **^ Top** #2 12.01.2008

Wow
Being that swift is self insured
This along with that last big one sure to hit the bottom line
Maybe Jerry will have to rig the machines at his casino to pay for this one LOL

WiseOne · **^ Top** #3 12.01.2008

OUCH! That hurts! Oh, Swift will pay for years and years to simply appeal it and such. Those people, most likely, will never see a single dime. And, Jerry will continue to giggle it up at the casino and treat his truckers like dirt. I am glad to see this as Swift is DEFINITELY a horrible company, but I don't think Jerry is worried at all. He probably snickered, with his cronies, down in the bunker and had a ball screwing another trucker somehow.

I have seen some REALLY dumb Swift moves for sure. Doesn't surprise me at all that it happened and it was a Swift truck. I saw a Covenant driver do something similar one time on I-70 at the bottom of Vale Pass. The goofball was actually doing a u-turn in the middle of the freeway at the bottom of a long, 7% grade! Unreal! We couldn't believe what we were seeing and all of us around called the cops on him. Wow, they sure got to him fast once they heard all of us calling, LOL. I think it all turned out alright that time, LUCKILY.

KeithT1967 · **^ Top** #4 12.01.2008

I'm not defending the Swift driver but something immediately pops into my head.....

I'm curious about what the Yellow driver was doing just before the accident. I'm pretty certain the Swift truck didn't just jump out from behind a bush and surprise the Yellow driver. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but since most Yellow trucks tend to run in a regular route the Yellow driver likely knew where that rest area was and if its around a blind curve wouldnt logic tell any intelligent driver to slow down? Rest areas and Entrance ramps give us enough problems without "assuming".

I know I don't just assume the road is clear around a blind curve. I tend to slow or at least cover the brake for any blind curve.

WiseOne · **^ Top** #5 12.01.2008

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Originally Posted by KeithT1967

I'm not defending the Swift driver but something immediately pops into my head.....

I'm curious about what the Yellow driver was doing just before the accident. I'm pretty certain the Swift truck didn't just jump out from behind a bush and surprise the Yellow driver. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but since most Yellow trucks tend to run in a regular route the Yellow driver likely knew where that rest area was and if its around a blind curve wouldnt logic tell any intelligent driver to slow down? Rest areas and Entrance ramps give us enough problems without "assuming".

I know I don't just assume the road is clear around a blind curve. I tend to slow or at least cover the brake for any blind curve.

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The trial also uncovered that the Swift driver tested positive for methamphetamines in the post-accident drug test.

Swift was at fault.

lookingup · **^ Top** #6 12.01.2008

what Casino's does he own, maybe they should be boycott?

Baack · **^ Top** #7 12.01.2008

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Originally Posted by lookingup

what Casino's does he own, maybe they should be boycott?

Local News | Snoqualmie Tribe's big bet: The casino that almost ...
Nov 17, 2008 ... The tribe had to take on even more debt to build the casino, ... the tribe up with Jerry Moyes, owner of Arizona-based Swift Transportation, ...

KeithT1967 · **^ Top** #8 12.01.2008

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Originally Posted by WiseOne

Swift was at fault.

I didn't say the Swift driver wasnt at fault. And I don't care if the Swift driver was High, Drunk, and Asleep. If you read the entire story you'll see the Yellow driver was found by the Jury to be 35% at fault. Appearently there was something not reported in the story that the Yellow driver did or didnt do that contributed.

Its sorta like walking across the street without looking because you have the "walk" signal. If you get hit and killed, the driver was at fault (no matter if he was wide awake and sobor, or stone drunk), and you're dead because you failed to do something as simple as looking.

Baack · **^ Top** #9 12.01.2008

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Originally Posted by KeithT1967

I didn't say the Swift driver wasnt at fault. And I don't care if the Swift driver was High, Drunk, and Asleep. If you read the entire story you'll see the Yellow driver was found by the Jury to be 35% at fault. Appearently there was something not reported in the story that the Yellow driver did or didnt do that contributed.

Its sorta like walking across the street without looking because you have the "walk" signal. If you get hit and killed, the driver was at fault (no matter if he was wide awake and sobor, or stone drunk), and you're dead because you failed to do something as simple as looking.

Many times they find percentage fault on both companies even if one is guilty
Reasoning is if you wernt there it might not have happened
Thats #### but common

WiseOne · **^ Top** #10 12.01.2008

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Originally Posted by KeithT1967

I didn't say the Swift driver wasnt at fault. And I don't care if the Swift driver was High, Drunk, and Asleep. If you read the entire story you'll see the Yellow driver was found by the Jury to be 35% at fault. Appearently there was something not reported in the story that the Yellow driver did or didnt do that contributed.

Its sorta like walking across the street without looking because you have the "walk" signal. If you get hit and killed, the driver was at fault (no matter if he was wide awake and sobor, or stone drunk), and you're dead because you failed to do something as simple as looking.

Yes, I read the whole story. Yea, I can see what you are saying. Who knows in all reality. Probably no one will except the drivers. Either way, what the Swift driver did was asinine. So, yes, Swift should pay. If you take into account what Swift, and their drivers, have done over the years...this is a pittance. But, doesn't matter, Swift will appeal and get away with it...again. Oh, and continue to give their drivers a good, old-fashioned screwing and it will just happen again in some form or another. This whole damn deal is so freaking sad. It NEVER ends. I guess it NEVER will. I cannot believe people work for that ### and continue to give him MILLIONS and it is known that Jerry calls his drivers "a dime a dozen." So WHY in the HELL anyone would work for him in the first place is beyond me. Jerry (Swift) IS responsible in the end...PERIOD...along with the driver. See, here's the problem...you have to look at the BIG picture, man. You know?

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