Central Refrigerated Truck Stop III

I just spoke to Bob in training and he said that he can make this all go away, take off the video requirement, the letter. . . . All of it. I told him that it is too far gone and the rollout of a new system with no training for the trainers, for the drivers, minimal training for the DM's is a formula for failure and he agreed. They are losing trainers and lease drivers (me included) like crazy. As someone said earlier, there are between 40-50 trucks sitting in the Central terminals all over the country as people pull their stuff out and hand in the keys. I have 2 years left on my lease and don't even care about them chasing me for the money, they will never see a penny. I have nothing left in my maintenance account, but they still have about 2,000 from my bond that I will never see so I will call it even and just say buh bye.

I have been in management positions prior to driving and see this rollout as one of the most poorly done that I have ever seen. What a joke.

 

I gave it a chance. Didn't work. Shift hasn't even started yet and centwift is already pissing me off.

 

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I love those. And I love that people don't seem to catch on that unless they sign the message, we have no idea who's messaging us.

 

So, from the previous thread, I finally got paid. They dropped the ball and forgot to pay me, so it was paid out yesterday. No direct deposit, so I did it on my comdata, and messaged my boss to say I was finally paid. Then I get told that somehow payroll screwed up even though they said it would be okay, and we didn't get paid correctly. Talked to a couple other locals, and at least one didn't get paid correctly.

Now I'm starting to wonder if it's a payroll screw up, or if it's our boss.

 

I can only surmise one of two scenarios. #1. The very upper management of Swift has no idea what a debacle this whole thing has been. Maybe middle-management has told them to go work on their golf and tennis games because everything is fantastic...Or...#2. For some ungodly reason we can't fathom, this has all been intentional. Either way, $225 million was laid out by Jerry Moyes and at the rate things are moving, it could all be lost. Isn't somebody, somewhere saying, "Woops"?

 

I don't think anybody at higher management is going to notice anything. That is until we start losing customers.

 

That's really the point I was driving at. Tomorrow, I'll make my 3rd p/u in a week that is 2 days late before I got the preset. Some customers are already feeling it. They won't put up with it very long.