Swift - How old are the trucks, and what brand of trucks?

Volvos, Freightliners, Kenworths 2008 to 2014 seems like they are replace a lot of trucks right now with New trucks nothing but new trucks the Walmart I run out of but maybe its just my area they still have some 2008 Ive seen but even when im running loads ive been seeing mostly 2012 and up

 

no apus and there are a lot of internationals too

 

to new for me....lol

 

Whats a APU LOL I judt run my truck they sre too cheap then thats there problm not mine and I got a 2013 KW with battery issues or something the shop cant fi gure it out so my DL.knows I have to idle a lot

 

No apu's Some of the new pro star's have some sort of underbunk kind of mini temp unit. Unfourtunatley all this means is that they have put a TEMP governor of some sort on the trucks to where you cant Idle between 70 and 90 deg.Swift currently has Volvo 670's a few company 780's although these are older models. A fair deal of kenworth aerocab's company side and studio's for lease. Cascadias both company and O/O lease option's I've seen a few cascadia mid roof's that are very new. But company side Volvo's 670 and older 780's Kw aero's and freightliner cascadia's/columbia's also pro star eagle's In a verity of option's. Swift will lease on trucks of certain wheel bases regardless of age in certain condition. Also any truck you see not on this list is most likely a fleet test truck of some kind.

 

Also on the APU I was told no, same for inverters installed, however I was told Swift will install an inverter if you have a medical condition such as sleep apnea, no idea on the wattage they give though.

I got to see a few different trucks while I was at the Swift Academy at the Phoenix terminal, got to get inside one of the drivers international which was a 2009 and it was nice and still running strong with 450k miles, the ones I studied with were older freightliners

Can some of the drivers give some insight on some of the trucks? I have been told each one has some differences, was told volvo gets a little better fuel mileage etc. Also insight on the engines? I know some prefer Detroit diesels while some prefer the cummings engine.

 

I got a 09 volvo 630 single bunk. With 520,000 and it has been beat. I keep reading that everytime you go into shop status they want you to get a different truck lol I wish. I have tried and am still trying to get another truck this keeps having problems after problems. It's a pile of crap. Nasty as hell inside etc. hopefully the engine will grenade soon and I might have a shot at a newer truck then. It has now breakdown 3 times it was in the shop first time for 2 days next was 7 days and this time we will see. This is since march 30th. Stay away from the older volvos lol

 

Man that sucks, i was told swift liked to swap out around 500k miles so i would assume especially if your having issues they would, costing them more money when you think about all that downtime especially not even a month, that's a loss of thousands of dollars worth of loads daily sitting in a shop not to mention mechanics and parts.