Had a 5am delivery at COSTCO in Parker, Co. this morning. When I got there, there was a SWIFT truck in one of the docks so I backed in next to her. When we went to check in, the clerk looked at her paperwork and told her that her appt. wasn't until 9/16. The woman looked at her quizzingly, then proceed to say in Spanish (as we later learned) that no she was told to be there at 5am on 9/15. The clerk pointed to the delivery date/time on the paperwork several times and the driver just flat out didn't understand her.
A driver for the one of the bakery companies was standing to the side and started talking to the SWIFT driver in Spanish, he asked her a couple of times if she spoke English, she replied no each time. When I went out to open my doors and back to the dock, she was furiously typing on her QC.
When I went back inside, the clerk was on the phone with someone from SWIFT explaining that the paperwork showed a 9/16 delivery and the PO also showed a 9/16 delivery in their system. She also wanted to know why the driver didn't speak any English, she wasn't able to communicate with them at all. 20 minutes later, the female driver and male co-driver, who turned out to be her husband came inside. He spoke slightly better, as in a couple of works, English, but kept asking them to speak spanish to him.
When I got to Kremmling, Co. a few hours later for a pickup, there was another SWIFT truck in there, this driver also spoke very little english, thankfully the forklift driver is bi-lingual.
What gives SWIFT?
SWIFT hiring non-english speaking drivers
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by striker, Sep 15, 2011.
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