Swift Drivers Class action on Mileage Pay

Don't tell me this is another OOIDA suit . That method of payment has been used by most carriers for years . In O/O contracts it is stipulated mileage will be paid by HMM . Was anyone ever told they would be paid ACTUAL mileage ? Some companies do pay hub mileage and that is made known from the start . The suit will be dismissed .

 

They have no chance. If they were hired and told that they would be paid HHM miles then they have no gripe. If they were told hub miles and then paid hhm miles then yes that is a problem. I agree that we should get paid for the miles we drive but fact is there are very few that pay that way. I get paid hub miles but i don't know of any other companies that pay them although I'm sure thare are a few but not many.

 

One issue I have seen is the fuel routing. One driver I know on a dedicated acct has to take I25-I80 for the fuel rout(Pueblo to Salt Lake). The shortest way is Hwy50-Hwy6-I15. They are making him go 100 more miles than what he is being paid. They said to him that if does not use the fuel rout and something happens(brakes down), He would be written up or fired.

 

well if that is true then they are getting f'ed for for sure. They might have a case in that instance but i still doubt it. I know one thing i'd be telling them to go get f'ed.

 

The difference from going US 50 over to Green River and up to SLC, vs up to Denver and over, is actually only 27 miles to the SLC terminal...ran it for 10 years with Swift, and if you go all the way up to Cheyenne, you are only adding another 14 miles for the trip to SLC terminal.

Please check your facts before accusing, I questioned it myself after the second time over 50, not fun in the winter for sure!

What is actually worse, even tho less miles is, going from the Sparks terminal (Alamo truck stop) out to Michelin Tire in Stead. Since the Stead area was allocated as part of Reno, they only pay 3 miles, as the trip is actually 24.

 

This is nothing new. I hear a few yrs back someone tried the same thing against you guest it Swift, and nothing come of it.. I suspect that this will end up the same way, just like road kill "DEAD".

 

Not to the term. To a Target store. They wanted to run him through the terminal for fuel. But direct rout to the store was 100 mile diff.

BTW. He did tell them where to go. I used to want to be on that div, but after talking to the company drivers running it, not soo much.

 

I'm not positive because there are different suits out there against Swift, but I believe this suit is with the former M.S. Carriers employees and I don't think OOIDA is handling this. When Swift bought them out they weren't paying them per the contract. At least this my understanding of the case. But I could be mistaken.

 

Almost got in a fist fight with the inside Swift manager at the Target Pueblo sit (when little terminal next door was closed) wouldn't let me take an MT out of Target, had a pre-plan (hot, high dollar, doing Denver planner a favor) and all the trailers at the terminal were red tagged, didn't have time to go all the way up to Denver and get an MT then back down to the shipper ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE PUEBLO TARGET to live load the load. Had to get the big guns from Phoenix involved! My stident was irritated at me for not planting one on the idiots nose at target!