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Moved into another truck today...already in the shop. Since I had the cascadia, I only been to the shop once with a maker light out, can't wait for the joy of dealing with maintenance on this Columbia

 

Awww mickimause, you don't enjoy the cranial rectal observation?

 

Hey now that's just a box planner doing his job.

 

Swift Gets Black Eye, Decides To Try Paying Drivers More

Swift Transportation’s shares dropped 14% after they announced their plans to invest more money into rectifying their driver shortage. While shareholders may not like to hear that a company is planning to spend more money, thus reducing their profit in the short-term, this could be good news for drivers and the trucking industry as a whole in the long term.

As the largest truckload carrier in the country, the “driver shortage” has been hitting Swift as hard as any carrier. So hard in fact that they have been forced to sell trucks that have been sitting idle due to a lack of drivers.

In response to the unseated truck count that was “higher than expected,” Swift announced that it would be spending more money on training new drivers and would be paying their drivers more.

They haven’t released any specifics as to how much more they will be paying their drivers, but in a letter to their investors they stated that “the best investment we can make at this time, for all of our stakeholders, is in our drivers. Our goal is to clear the path for our drivers by helping them overcome challenges, eliminate wait times and take home more money.”

Could it be that carriers are finally realizing that paying their drivers more might be an incentive for them not to leave?

 

Doc & dfo... not sure it was entirely box planners this time. From Dallas OC, drive 0 paid miles to FedEx, pick up empty. Then drive 0 more paid miles to Home Depot, D/H, then 0 paid miles to DROP A RELAY AT THE DALLAS OC. Then, to Flower Mound for an empty, to Coppell, D/H, now onward to Jawga. I think they gave me this run to make up for the first one. Soon as our DBL gets back, I will talk to him.

 

Sounds like we need to file a class action lawsuit to be paid better.....

 

If i remember correctly, you should be getting minimum $25 per load

 

I think you are right, it's just shorthaul we don't get for staging relays.

 

Is it one or nultple st numbers? 0-25miles is $25

 

One ST number, so I only expect $25.