Fired from Swift for mis-communication

you made it to the top so they want your arse gone so they can keep filling up the seats and they will find every excuse to do it.it's all about money they want that 10k per head from the goverment. no big loss find a job fast and move on be safe . swift is just a sausage mill!!

 

all I can say, is fight the abandonment statements, but you were lucky. When I got done with my trainer, picked up my truck, it had been wrecked. The whole left side of fender as hanging. Told them I wasn't leaving with it looking like that.Their answer was tow plates, and eight screws. I test drove told them something was wrong with the steering. OH, but a woman knows nothing! Five months later, I refuse to drive the truck, unless they put their family in it and pick up my load. If there was no problem then I'd drive it. Well I spent two weeks at the yard because my tyrod was severely bent and ready to go. Jeez, I guess he didn't trust the truck with him and his family but I could haul me and my little girls around in it. I know they are hard to get in to But I went to JB Hunt after that. I was treated fairly. Do Not go to Specialized Express in Columbus, OH.

 

You actually went back to Swift, after all of the horrible things they did to you? I admire your humility. Without offering an opinion on the company, I can honestly say that if I felt the way you do (or did), I would play the harmonica on a street corner for pennies before I would go back there.

Just wait'll they offer you the lease-op plan. You get your own shiny new truck, and you make three or four times as much money per mile. You'll feel guilty for stealing from them.

 

Actually Swift has a "family plan" for drivers. 12 days out, up to 12 days home. But you have to clean out your truck. I refuse to use it, my truck isn't great, but its not junk either! Some terminals make you sign up for the family plan when you finish orientation. I am on it, but haven't gone home more than two days in a row.

 

Now all we need is to get the DOT to shove their HOS rules up their proverbial ##### so that somebody can actually drive the 12 days.

My gawd, and I still awake? Now that I'm not driving and don't have the DOT telling me when I'm tired and need to sleep, I just stay awake all night.

This is almost as bad as getting out of prison and having to learn to close your own doors.