Saw a real Swift move form a Swift driver.. lol

Id post the link But that got me banned last time.

UPS is split into two main divisions, the smaller of the two is still employing more drivers, but less miles than swift.

I can also pull the accident stats from the same site.
Being at company that hires trucking companies, we have access to some pretty good stuff.

 

aaah _ I think I see. Your UPS stats are including all the guys in the little brown vans, too, I think. I believe that's actually a separate.... division, shall we say, from UPS Ground. UPS Ground has 5600 tractors and 8600 drivers. That's far, far less than Swift - or half a dozen other trucking companies.

When we're talking company size here on this board, we are restricting ourselves to only the tractor/trailer portions of any multi-service company.

(Oh, I can pull accident stats too - and I don't even work for a trucking company at the moment. UPS Ground, for instance, had 694 reportable accidents in the past 30 months, 25 of which resulted in fatality, and 252 resulted in non-fatal injuries. I can go on. The internet is a wonderful place)

 

Maybe thats all they can get for the money

 

My hubby's trainer at Werner definitely made out pretty good. He's one of the trainers that's worth it though, as he's good. My hubby learned a lot from him. We're actually friends with the guy, and have been since shortly after hubby got hooked up with him.

My first trainer at Swift back in 1999 was a 6 month experience trainer, and it showed. My second one was much better, and had more experience. Don't know what Swift trainers get paid though.

 

Swift has 18677 tractors. In the last 30 months they have had 2525 reportable accidents, thats 84 accidents a month. 72 of them were fatal, thats one every 12 days. I have been told that if they hit your truck in a truck stop, good luck collecting. I try to stay out of their way.

 

that's just one of those things that show how crappy some of the trainers are. a new driver doesn't think about the overhang on the rear of the trailer when turning. if they hit a truck while backing...not much can be said about that...it could have been an honest mistake (we all make those), or maybe they got in a hurry b/c they were worried what other drivers would say if it took them awhile to get the spot.

 

as far as i know.. unlike Fed EX, UPS is not split into seperate divisions except for small package and freight.

 

Could be..I've not done any serious investigation. But the point I was trying to make is that, generally speaking, when we say "largest" carrier, we are talking about the carrier with the most tractor/trailers on the road. We are, after all, truckers (most of us) - and if it doesn't require a Class A, it doesn't count.

SO, we're not really talking largest company, we're talking largest carrier (local delivery does not a carrier make)

 

UPS stinks in my book too, I got hit in Texas earlier this year by one of their trucks who was changing lanes, $5800 damage to my truck, no witnesses stopped, their safety guy was there 30 mins before the cops got there and told the driver what to say. He had already told me he thought he was past me and was sorry, thats not what he told the cop after he got coached by the safety man. Guess whose insurance had to pay? One of those on-board cameras would have paid for itself that day. At least no one was hurt, except my truck

 

This is a hands-on learn by doing career, let NONE of us say we didn't do something stupid when we were learning no matter what company we started out with. Why don't each of you step up and tell us what that was...