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

I mentioned the same thing and this driver pretty much got offended. I've never known a company to leave a driver stranded like that and if Swift allowed them to be left for three days on the side of the road, the FMCSA would consider that a driver safety issue.

 

I'm with you totally. Its the first time ive ever heard of a truck getting towed for running out of fuel. I can't imagine that Swift would hang him out to dry either. Through experience and wisdom, I can say it's ill-advised to leave the truck stop if you're fuel is low. I do think there are missing pieces to the story. I don't believe dispatch would tell a driver to continue driving. Running out of fuel will make a service failure certain, and that's the last thing they want.

 

If a company did that to me, I'd want it in writing so that I could forward it to Safety and any higher management. Like I said, that is a driver safety issue and Swift could've very well paid a steep price for that. If this driver wants to get pissy because other drivers on this forum know better, then that's their prerogative. I just shared my experience like you did. I know from experience that a company can do a manual authorization at any truck stop that they don't use. This driver getting pissy just makes their story reek of ######## more than ever from my observation.

 

It is a little fishy. I suspect there are missing details. If he wants to stick to that story, I will certainly let him. A lot of drivers say their DAC got messed up by the company. I'm often times skeptical of that. I'm not saying that it doesn't happen inadvertently. I just fail to see what a company as large as Swift has to gain from deliberately messing up a driver's DAC. I also know truck drivers as well, and in my experience, they're not the most accountable bunch. They never think they're the issue. An accident, drug/alcohol use, things of that nature I expect them to put on a DAC. I'm starting to wonder if there was an accident.