Swift

Dick Simon's was like a Saturday night massacre over and over and over for years and years. They'd have a help-wanted in the Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday mornings wanting everybody from the janitor to the terminal manager on a regular basis. Their ad begging for drivers never disappeared from that paper in the 10 years I watched it. But then Simon went bankrupt. Could that have been because of their turnover, caused by ill-treatment of drivers? Maybe. Could their demise be blamed on the stash of cash they had to pay to California after the nutcase Simon driver crashed his truck into the California State Capitol building in January 2001, after Simon's higher-ups were warned of the nut case's nuttiness? Maybe. Maybe both? Now if I could only reach the hard-headed ones bent on going to those outfits. You don't want to be replacing quitters, folks. Or nut cases.

 

The title of this thread is “Swift”.

 

What is the point of this video? Swift literally has about fifty thousand trailers. Of course some of them are going to get damaged. Also, most of the trailers (the ones that start with number “5”) are over ten years old and just need to be taken out of the fleet regardless of condition.

 

And? This isn't the first thread to get derailed. It certainly won't be the last.

 

12 months not your baby

 

I think that's supposed to be part of the joke.

 

Yeah, and Central, the outfit that was once Simon, was bought out by Swift's owner, meaning nothing has changed there, at least not for the better.

 

Didn’t know that, thanks.

I don’t think Swift is as bad as their reputation anymore. Management is well aware of what people say on forums like this and has made lots of changes over the last few years and especially the last year or so.

I’ve been with them just over three years and some of the things I read on here have no basis in reality at all. Especially “Swift doesn’t care about safety” that’s just so not true.

To each their own though.

 

Swift changed its speed policy a while ago. It’s now 63 mph through the pedal and 65 mph on cruise. You can use smart pass to get up to 67 for about a half hour a a day.