Swift Owner Operators

Swift L/O's are suppossed to be set at 68mph. Mentors that are L/O's are turned down to 65. My mentors blue KW was set at 118 before Swift turned it down! He didn't have a clue that it was set that fast.


There is many colors available for L/O's. C5 Corvetter yellow is one of them. Evidently you don't get out to Phoenix Lugnut. There is bronze, copper, yellow, green, purple, and lots of other colors. I even have seen some of those International Lonestars. Pewter colored Volvos, lots of other colors.

Lugnut where are you getting your info?

 

BTW a couple of weeks ago general message came over that Swift is looking for non Swift owner operators.

Things may be heating up.

Last couple of weeks my mentor and I ran solo miles. They claimed that was the roll of the dice. He actually lost money over what he could have made over just being solo. They pay the L/O at a lesser rate when training a newbie.

 

Getting my info from Decatur Ga and Greer SC terminals and the answers to questions I have asked over the two years I have been with Swift. I actually looked into l/o over a year ago and decided against it. And NOPE, don't get out to Phoenix any at all. No way in hell I would go OTR with Swift again. Decicated accounts that keep me within 300 miles of the house is all I do for them these days. No way I stay gone for 3-4 weeks and only have 3-4 days home a month for the pennies on the dollar Swift pays. I can be at home most nights and on weekends, make 800-1100 a week instead of never being home and only making 500-700 a week OTR.

 

They don't "pay" them less...they CHARGE them $0.05 cpm to have a student on their truck...now explain the logic in this! More miles, less reimbursement, less MPG (when student is learning how to shift correctly), more wear and tear on the rig...!

As a L/O...if you want to use the correct terminology...you are actually a rented truck from swift...you are assuming all liability for the truck, the insurance, and all at rates that Swift dictates...you are not an "independent contractor"...and that is what the lawsuit is about...and when the decision goes against Swift (and all the other companies doing the same) the IRS is going to have a field day collecting unpaid employer taxes from these companies...how many will just fold the doors closed?!!!

 

BTW by me saying "things may be heating up" I was referring to business. My mentor was surprised to see them soliciting for outside trucks to lease on to the company.

 

Personally I think Swift realizes they can't con anymore company drivers into their crappy l/o option. PT Barnum said it best in there being a sucker born every minute, maybe Swift has went through all the suckers in the company and now need to look externally for some

 

PT Barnum never said that...

 

WOW.... learn something new every day. Had to google it to make sure and came back saying Barnum's arch-rival in the circus business attributed the saying to him in attempts to discredit him. Reckon I gotta take and make a small correction anytime I use that in the future.


Thanks notarps ... and apologies to all for hijackin' the thread for a moment.

 

IRS and DOT need to get involved. Almost all of the big companies are breaking the law. The DOT specifically states that if you require a lease driver to have certain equipment, you cannot charge them fees for it (qualcomm..). Hmm...

And thats just the start of it of course.