I DRIVE FOR SWIFT ARE THERE ANY COMPANIES WITH SLOWER TRUCKS

I apologize for the grammar and spelling as I am using the Google speak feature rather than actually typing it

 

I work with Henderson, which was the first company I got my CDL, and trained... Lease ops (well from the trainer I had who was a lease op) their trucks are governed at 65, by pedal or cruise... The company drivers are governed at 62 by pedal and 65 by cruse... I've gone over 65 plenty of times, and never got into any trouble. The only time they asked me if I did that, was because my FM called me to go over the fuel mileage about my truck.

 

I just quickly conjectured Swift's fuel savings a year, and at approx. 170 million dollars a year, I would say they will be around when all those speedsters are long gone....not to mention the money saved on brakes, suspensions, tires and law suits.....

Swift can probably buy almost 1500 trucks a year with just the fuel savings. Anyone still wonder why they are governed?

All of Europe trucking runs at 62 mph, and does just fine.

US loves fast trucks, look at all the extra tax dollars they get. Kind of explains why they are not slowed down...oil companies don't mind those extra billions either.

 

Nobody wonders why are they governed at this low speed.We all know why.We are only saying that it blows from company driver point of view.Sure if i was an o/o i would be driving slower too.The point is that Swift drivers are getting it from both ends.Not only they are getting less cpm but also have to work longer.I mean if Swift is 13 mph slower then me he will be some 2 h behind me on say 750 miles MO-CO run.he won't even finish this run the same day.Driver's pay and comfort is the whole point.

 

Swift company drivers are governed at 62, but they are allowed 67 mph for up to 3 minutes downhill. An overspeed event is recorded and sent to safety if you go over 68 or extend your stay at 67 beyond the time limit.

Like the OP I got back into trucking after time off and drove for Swift a couple of years, part of that as a trainer. You want green rookies with an average of 10 hours behind the wheel fresh out of school in an ungoverned truck?

The sweet spot for best fuel mileage is about 62 mph. While driving for Swift I averaged about 8.5 mpg.

I'm driving an ungoverned truck now, usually setting the cruise at 70-72 mph. As luck would have it I have an ex-Swift truck, and average about 4.7 mpg.

Swift makes money by hauling cheap freight and saving on fuel and driver pay. I make money for my owner by hauling expensive freight and get paid well by maximizing the number of loads.

It's all according to the business plan.

 

You don't get paid less if you go over the speed 'limit'. In fact, if you are on cruise control you can hit 67 or so without a warning going off. Well, for a very short time.
In nearly 5 years I have never had an overspeed violation, even though I do hit 67 from time to time.

And I really don't see the problem.
Swift expects us to maintain what they consider a safe speed, and it really isn't that hard to do.
Back down on the cruise control a few notches as you crest a hill, brake a little when you need to.
No big deal.

And if anyone thinks they are really saving THAT much time by gaining another few miles per hour going down a hill, think again. A minute or two during a day doesn't amount to that much.


If you don't like the speed limits Swift requires, find somewhere else to work.
Stop complaining; go elsewhere and stop wasting forum time with these useless threads.

 

If everyone understood, then there would not be continual discussion as to why trucks are governed. All one has to do is buy about 17,000 trucks and hire a bunch of ........ to drive them, and then it is quite lucid as to why they are not going to get to run everyone off the road at 80 mph....

 

And if everyone understood everything, well, Life might well be pointless.

I actually wonder to what point God has to aspire to.
I mean, if you know everything from beginning to end, all the ins and outs... then what is the point of doing anything past that?
!

Does even The God aspire to become even Greater?
That is mind staggering, to say the least.

And all that from one little comment...
"If everyone understood, then..."

 

I did the math along time ago but for every 5 miles an hour you go over 55 mph you gain only 2 minutes. So If two people left point A, driver one was doing 55 and the other 60 mph, driver one will arrive 2 minutes later at point B in a one hour time slot then driver 2. Four minutes at 65, six minutes at 70 and so on. The benefits are for long haul drivers who can gain up six hours in a twenty four hour time slot if they go over 70 mph but when it comes to 300 miles or less, your talking about just 10 maybe fifteen minutes gained.

 

I don't know where you learned math but 5 mph equals 5 minutes at 60 mpg.

If we both start out at the same time and travel 60 miles, the truck traveling at 60 mph will make it in 1 hour.
The truck traveling 55 mph will still have 5 miles to go, which would take just over another 5 minutes.