The start of my first year with Swift.

So I got a stacked preplan while I was in Fontana. The first load was for 13 miles and the second for 1000. I delivered the first one and picked up the second one. This morning I checked to see what the 13 mile run paid. I made $3.38 for 2.5 hours of work. It just does not seem worth it. I sent an email to my DL asking what the deal was. He said the planner was supposed to come to an agreement with me as to what I would accept to do that load. Nothing was ever said to me about it. He's going to put me in for hourly pay for it.

Does anyone know the Swift ranking system. I think they are all messed up on mine. I know they start you out at Bronze. Last week I noticed my rank changed to Silver and this week it is Gold. So far I've been unable to find anything that tells me exactly what it means. I've seen the requirements for each rank and I don't come close on miles.

Spending the night in a TS in Idaho. No delivery until tomorrow mid morning.

That's it for now.

 

I can only believe there is a glitch in the system for me to rank gold. It makes no sense to me. Now if they wanted to pay me more money...I might not think they were so crazy.

 

That is exactly how it came over. I tried to only accept the second load but was told it was a package deal. If I wanted the long one I had to do the short one. I was under the impression I would be getting the $25 short load fee along with .42cpm. I found out today that I will be paid $15 an hour plus the mileage. It's a lesson learned.

Secorp, no worries about the critique. I do tend to put up with a bunch of stuff before I finally say no. The problem is that when I'm done I'm really done. I'm giving this a chance no matter what.

 

So tonight I'm home. I delivered my load in Ririe, ID this morning, drove back to Ogden and now I'm in Boise. I don't deliver in Seattle until the 8th. I decided to spend some time at home with my honey.

I saw something today that really made me ill. While pickup up my load in Ogden I had another Swift driver pull out in front of me to get ahead of me at the exit gate. No biggie really as he must have been much more important then I am. When he gets out of his truck I couldn't believe it. His shirt was half buttoned and his belly was exposed, bouncing as he walked. His boots were untied and the laces were slapping the ground. I couldn't have crawled as slowly as he walked. To top it off he was picking up and empty trailer and when he pulled out he parked next to the curb and sat there. Perhaps there was an urgent PBJ waiting in his cooler.

When they replaced my windshield the put my prepass receiver near the top of the window. Very seldom do I get a green light now. Mostly I get no signal at all. Has anyone else had an issue like this? I'm wondering if I should move it back to the bottom.

Thank you to everyone for your encouragement. I know there are times when it seems like I've just about had it, but really I'm good and I'll keep pushing on. I have a plan.