Swift Sucks

I'd like a list of these many companies who use APUs. I wasn't aware of this.

 

TEDEN20 - I think your identity MIGHT be my friend BEV. ??? I can't send a personal message on this board yet. This is CHERYL in Canada. I almost went with Swift, last year also. But something (SOMEONE UPSTAIRS, for sure) just held me back, for my own good, as it turns out. Wow, you've been through a rough 2 years. You may not have your old email account, as I have tried contacting you that way before. So you can reach me at tentmakertrucker at that google mail site. Hope to hear a hi from you.

 

No disrespect, Wes, personally - but do you realize that you respond to comments on this board as if you are writing a Student Training Manual? You say you're different from the bad apples on staff with the big companies. But you express yourself with no compassion or empathy, and you do not respond to the key concerns of the drivers who are participating here. Instead you do this pseudo-official line-by-line commentary instead. Frankly, you need to loosen up, or I'll just skip over reading your posts. They are that predictable. And boring.

 

I apologize cabhappy if you feel that way. I generally only try to address things that need addressed. I am usually not posting in the bad company section, I stay in the good company section mostly (since someone always tries to turn it negative). I also skip over generalized posts that have no value (example: Swift fired me because I was drinking in my truck, but I was off duty. I can't believe a company did that to me etc..). There are many of these types. What key concerns have not been addressed?

Wes

 

Hi Shebear !!!! Are you posting your loony nutjob posts here also ??

Did you know you just got banned from another site under both your login names !!!!!!!

 

Dear Monty Hall,

I've never seen your handle on 'that other' trucker website, so it looks like you may be using more than one name also. I cannot immediately verify your report of my status elsewhere, but for the record I do not use profanity or abuse other members of any other boards -- my only crime is being politically cognizant - and, obviously, "incorrect". Agendas are in place everywhere, perhaps.

 

The people in the offices and shops at swift get payed by the hour, right?
And it is thru the rates payed by the customer that you are payed hourly or salaried, right? How did you ever convince the customer to let you get away with that? If it is so costly and inefficient to do?

I find it odd that a company that routinely has no problem delaying a driver getting payed by the mile for days at a time, now has the audacity to complain about the efficiency of their local drivers. Layover and detention pay does not even come close to what a driver can make under a load, yet company's like Swift act like it is a driver benefit because with the lack of labor standards they keep their lobbyists busy protecting, they could pay nothing at all.

To use your rational we should put everyone on a piece rate to save money and because someone won't pay for hourly wage.

The hours of service are based on a 70 hour work week So it would be simple for OTR company's to pay a hourly wage based on that work week or even a salary. But then company's know how much money and production is gained thru their drivers skimping as much as they can get away with on line 3 to make more miles and more money for the company, and don't want to remove the incentive to the driver to find ways to cook the books that mileage pay provides

The fact is that OTR trucking company's and shippers have gotten away with only paying for part of the labor of the drivers for many years and don't want the gravy train to stop until they are forced into it.

Company's like Swift always say what a hardship it would be to pay their drivers for the actual hours they work for them but how many company's has Swift taken over thru out the years while they claim the sky will fall if they pay their drivers for the actual time they work so they don't have to be creative anymore to make a living and keep non revenue producing hours off the books?

Why does Swift say a driver can make 40k a year working for them, without telling them that after they divided it into the hours worked over the year, it comes to around $14.25 a hour and thats with fudging real log time so you will have hours to drive. This is a routine practice by OTR drivers since they would be foolish to log hours for 10 to 12 bucks a hour detention pay, when they can save those hours for running loads at twice that. And the company knows it . Sounds good, until you tell the whole story.

They say they want the driver to log legal, and as it happens, because they have to. But you can bet that the bean counters at Swiftco know that there is no way that drivers will put themselves in the poor house by wasting hours on line 1,2 and 4 if they don't have to, and that extra capital comes in handy when taking over their next competitor after they ran the freight cheap for awhile to force them to sell.

 

Hey, Vick. How goes it? Hey, I've not been around much these days. I've been out on vacation. In the time I've been basking on the beach, I see you've again graced the site with your fine polyanna-ness. How goes it SwiftQuit these days? Still got the mentoring program in place?

A guy walks into a bar. He'd been trained by a SwiftQuit mentor with six-months' experience, who had been trained by a SwiftQuit mentor with six-months' experience, who had been trained by a SwiftQuit mentor with six-months' experience, who had been trained by a SwiftQuit mentor with six-months' experience, who had been trained by a SwiftQuit........

 

I am a newbie getting ready to leave for training I was set up with swift to go to millington, tn on March 11 but my recruiter called me on March 4th and tells me that millington is no longer accepting students. I told him I have already quit my job and I need to get something done right away. He tells me that there is nothing he can do the soonest he can get me into training is April 9 in san antonio TX. That is a 2 day bus ride for me. I live close enough to millington that I could drive down there in about 5 hours. So I told him we will see. I started checking around to see what the heck happened and to my shock the millington training facility and the terminal in millington were raided by the FBI, ATF, Attorney General, TN State pollice and a few other government entities. So needless to say I decided to go with someone else.

 

Truck driving is hard work and stressful. But there have been many times when drivers have not hesitated to cut me off to pass another truck and do 2 mph faster uphill for 30 minutes.

They are not angels, and this kind of behavior does not generate good will.