Just saw this thread. Yes, the heavy haul they advertise is all heavy vans in the Northwest. There are 7 drivers in the company that have done OSOW in the way some of you may be thinking at least that have done it for swift. And I am one of them, though not moving anything big or heavy at the moment, none of us are. That being said, full disclosure, not really that heavy. At most maybe 130k GVW. And 1 of those we have around for bigger stuff. Ocassional pole trailer, occasional Stretch trailer, occasional step, but mostly on simple skateboards. Its invite only. Mostly precast from Coreslab as of the last few years. We have only 3 RGNs in the entire company, and they belong to the recovery team. Though I did pull one of them once to deliver a shop truck to some place. Because the body shop technically owns the RGNs, but they grabbed me off the flat fleet while thier driver was out. And, I then went to youtube to figure out how to drop the deck. Since I had no idea on earth at the time how to break down an RGN. Wasnt a disaster so yay. And im shure I scoured advice off here when I did it too. But heres some of the precast. We just ran exemption on weight mostly when we would get the thick heavy stuff.
Well, at least we can be somewhat content with the SEVEN drivers that work for Swift...they must have some wit about them or they wouldn't be on that work evidently.
Only mishap weve weve really had with big stuff was, one of our guys snapped his lines in downtown Phoenix mid turn and blocked the street, and then forgot he had for some reason pulled the kingpin, and dropped the trailer on the frame. I was not there to see that one. But 3 of em took turns cranking it up. Why he pulled the pin, we will never bloody know, think his gut reaction was to drop the trailer so traffic could get by at least , but someone brought over some tools and he forgot he did it. Other than that, someone forgot to seperate the lines on a stretch trailer. And we found out one of the pole trailers didn't have slide stops, the hard way. But two forklifts did the trick. Thankfully both of those was in the yard.
I run in swifts "heavyhaul" rookies do drive them, its also a decent gig i run monday morning to saturday morning then im off my longest run is 334 miles so my mileage pay usually averages between .48 to .52 not including accessory pay and i never run for more then 55 hours
Was taking a trip down memory lane, here's the trucks we used for what we did .... Looking at new options now, these are retiring and up for sale.
