HELP!! SWIFT RUINED MY DAC & Hire right report!

There's no way in the bluest hell. If he did, then he's the #######. When I worked at SRT, we were strictly TA/Petro (if you were company) and if there wasn't one near by, they were happy, albeit annoyed to authorize Pilot or Loves to get you to the nearest TA/Petro. Something's missing here.

 

• First off, welcome to TTR. Experiences and opinions vary.
• Second, you got hosed. No OTR company I've ever worked for left me ### out like that. You act as if I'm standing up for Swift when I had similar experiences 10 years ago. No. If you honestly believe that a company can't manually authorize fuel, then I don't know what to tell you. And I have read what you said. There's no way in hell I would've sat on the side of the road for three days like that. I'd have personally called DOT and let them handle it. Want to know how I know? I had that situation about 9 years ago. The difference is I had almost no cell service in the middle of nowhere. Not to mention that it was over 100 degrees, a broken u-joint, no air conditioning and a truck so hot, that my bottles of water were near boiling. My cellphone also couldn't stay running due to that temperatures. In my case, Parks and Wildlife showed up to check on me. They then sent a Sheriff to me who then called a wrecker to get me 50 miles to our yard so that I could go home. Yes, my boss abandoned me until he got the text that his truck was impounded.
• Third, the mistake you made was even telling them you were quitting. Every driver knows to never tell the company you're quitting, especially far from home. The last company that I quit didn't even know I was quitting. I quit because the ####ed me on pay and ruined my home time. You can find that post up here. After delivering a load in WV and being abandoned there on a Friday, I fueled their truck up and drove it to the terminal on Saturday. Saturday night, I bought my plane ticket home and flew out at 5 am on a Sunday. By the time they figured out where I was, I'd already secured another job that didn't ask questions. I'd been gone two weeks. When you tell a company that you plan on leaving, they will do any and everything to make it hard for you to leave and even harder to get a job.

You can get pissy all you want at me like I don't know or haven't been through the ringer, but I come from a decade of that malarkey and only had one ###### company that was honest despite having a bad reputation. Good luck in you future endeavors.

 

Sir/Ma'am, a lot of people who've answered your post probably have never seen the inside of a Swift truck. Where we've worked vs what we've experienced or learned in our time is irrelevant. If you didn't want the answers you've received, and I've seen some helpful ones, why did you post to a public forum?

 

Hmmmm..... I ran out of fuel once when I was less experienced. The road call truck was able to bring 20 gallons or so. Maybe less, they primed the engine, and I was able to get to the truck stop. I question the move to call a wrecker for running out of fuel. Our company uses Pilots but will authorize fuel elsewhere in emergency situations. This whole situation just doesn't make sense.