SWIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  1. American-Trucker

    American-Trucker Road Train Member

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    SWIFT was tailgating a Chevy converson van, when the drivers side rear wheel/tire came completely off and bounced down the interstate, so to avoid slamming into the van, SWIFT slammed on his breaks......Causeing the 4-Wheeler tailgateing SWIFT to slam into the back of SWIFTS trailer......So instead of a van being towed off the road real quick, we had a 3 vehical wreck and a 15 mile parking lot!:biggrin_25510: DUMBAZ$


    And people wonder why everyone makes fun of swift drivers:biggrin_2556:


    This was I-40 in AR


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    dixiedeadlight Light Load Member

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    Unfair!!!! We have an 8 second following rule. I have seen many drivers from other companies exhibit this bad behavior. Not including o/o and little no name companies!!! Its an epidemic that doesn't start and end with Swift.:biggrin_2552:
     
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    I had a tow truck get the highway the other day with one on the bed and another on the stinger. The one with wheels on the ground had little chunks of something coming off of it and as I started to pass, bigger and bigger chunks of what I recognized as rubber. So I backed way off. By the time both wheels came off of that little pickup I was about a third of a mile away and my tailgaters had vanished since I was going too slow.
     
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    American-Trucker Road Train Member

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    that true but swift is the one that caused the backup this time lol:biggrin_25522:




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  5. Mr. PlumCrazy

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    But if the 4 wheeler was tailgating and couldn't stop in time how is that swift fault. Swift was following far enough behind that he could stop I have to take up for swift this time It was the dumb ### 4 wheeler fault more than likely on the phone
     
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    American-Trucker Road Train Member

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    had swift not had to slam on the breaks the 4 wheeler MAY not have hit the truck....or maybe they still would have lol

    Ya gotta blam this on someone! stop ruining my fun! :biggrin_2559:



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  7. dixiedeadlight

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    Hater. Lol. Its hard to tailgate in a 70 when you are governed at 62.5.....
     
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    Def a preventable on Swiftys part..He was probably trying to pass the van and needed to get real close to do it..Swift is governed at 62 and ill bet that van was going 61..
     
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    Hmmmm......Swift was going behind a van which lost its wheel. Swift stopped in time to avoid a tragedy. Kept it in his lane, did not swerve, just brake hard. Which means he was not tailgating. If he was the van would be no more.

    I guess he should have make sure moron behind him observed the safe distance too. Yeah it's his fault, he didn't control the four-wheeler behind him, shame on him.
     
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    LoL, i must be getting old, i remember when everything was always Schneider's fault!