Former Swift trucking school students win court battle

Kinda saw that coming.

But to call it a raid is a bit of a stretch. Some guv'mint officials showed up at the school asking for documents. Swift requested to see warrants. G-men said see ya tomorrow. Swift gathered up all requested documents and boxed them up. Next morning, G-men were back with requested paperwork and the boxes were hauled out to waiting transport. Between the two days, the entire transaction took less than 45 minutes.

Some raid.

Gotta love media sensationalism.

 

I wonder what exactly they are suing for.

I understand the inconvienance of having to retest, but surely the inconvienance of being involved in the suit is greater than that.


Yeah, SWIFT screwed the pooch and deserves some kind of sanction or punishment which I'm sure has already been met out. Usually someone has to have damages to sue.

Aside from having to retest, what's the damages?

 

I heard about this a few years back, Swift had some school that umped out drivers like candy but they had to stay in a hotel while there and change their address...then after they got their cdl they switch back to their home state. I can't remember what forum it was on but its out there. Some people called them out way back about this. I guess they got what was coming to them.

Nothing better then seeing some scammer get busted LOL IN YOUR FACE SWIFT!

I can't stand seeing drivers get treated like garbage by companies like swift. All these people wanted, was to put in a honest days work and earn a dollar.

 

if i remember correctly, this directly stemmed from a driver who was not born in this country who got involved in an accident in Ohio, killing many people. the CDL was traced back to the millington facility, and i guess he knew someone and just paid for the passed test results.

i may be wrong. so dont flame me if i am lol but i think that is what started this whole thing.

 

I think 1 dude was rite about the wreck then the case work an tracing it back 2 the swift driving school, butt if my shoddy memory serves rite dude tht wreckd was with someone else by then an they wantd 2 knw where he gott his cdl so they dugg deeper an found he got it @ the school over dare in memphis, an that's when they found out about the people not being state residents of tennesse an the ordeal began

Man they had every alphabet bureau involved in tht deal

 

They had their CDL's revoked and had loss of income while waiting for retesting .
The state of TN certified this great school as well as this one . http://www.etrucker.com/2009/07/13/officials-probe-tenn-driving-school/

Yessir , wannabes can have great confidence in these certified instituions .

 

Licenses were not revoked. Letters were sent out to retest within a certain time frame. I believe they were given a year to get it done. Some few say they never received notification and, as promised, those licenses were invalid.

The practice of getting permits and licenses in another state than the home state and then transferring them back has been wide spread throughout the industry for a lot of years. Many companies still do this. Not saying that makes it right, it just is.

Now. No lawsuit has been won. The only "victory" has been the granting of class action. As far as I can see, that is no victory for the plaintiffs. It is, however, for the lawyers if a settlement is ever awarded.

I don't know anything about an ineligible applicant/CDL holder causing a multiple fatality crash. I will say that part of the records examined by several agencies included falsified citizen documentation. Swift was not found to be responsible for these in any way. They went off documentation presented to them. They are not FBI agents or Secret Service officers. They are secretaries. If a document looks authentic, it is accepted. This is one reason a birth certificate is virtually worthless in proving identity. There is absolutely no way to prove it belongs to the person in whose hand it is without use of a fingerprint database. Last time I checked, Swift does not have access to one.

 

Thanks for the correction . A lot of misinformation on the retesting . Allowing them to keep the CDL's doesn't make sense though . If they weren't properly tested how can they be considered qualified ?

 

The states didn't want to penalize drivers who went through the program in good faith. Yet, they wanted to ensure the right steps were taken and properly documented. Since Tennessee couldn't provide it and Swift's information was in question, the retests were necessary.

My opinion,if you've been driving for six months or more, you should have no problem passing a practical test. If you do, you shouldn't be driving anyway.