another "SWIFT" move

The percentage of drivers with less than 1 year experience at Swift is very high. So this sort of thing is going to be more prevelant. Swift is self insured up to 2mil. Truck accidents are not that hard to find. Swift is the largest trucking company in the world so it only makes sense that you are going to see more Swift trucks, more newbie drivers and therefore more accidents. The better companies out there with low accident rates require 2 or more years experience. So they should have a lot less accidents than Swift.

 

Now thats funny

 

You guys better be careful or you'll make people who have never driven for SWIFT mad again. At least there is photographic evidence this time.

 

That is a good one.....

 

I seen a Swift truck in boise idaho at exit 57 east bound off ramp making a right hand turn. At that corner is a cement wall protecting the street light and stop light poles, as this swift truck was going around the corner he cut it a bit short, i seen the trailer looking as if it we tipped a bit, when i seen what the driver did he had the cement wall between the trailer duals on both axles, i had to scratch my head and chuckle at his predicament, to bad for this driver, not sure how they got the trailer off the wall.

 

well its been two months now how is it going at swift

 

This one happened four years ago in my town but still funny, swift hits another car dealer ship, and on top of it this guy was drunk


Wednesday, June 16, 2004, Winona MN
Rome Ritter stopped by Walz Buick-Pontiac-GMC on Monday night just to check up on the lot, which had closed almost an hour earlier. The downtown Winona lot is occasionally hit by vandals.

But what the sales consultant saw on Monday night went way beyond keying cars.
When he arrived he saw car parts, glass shards and motor oil all over the lot. Nine cars in all had been damaged when a semi truck crashed into the cars.

"I thought a tornado landed," he said. "It was a disaster."

At 8:51 p.m., Winona Police heard the noise next door and found that the semi, driven by Robert McCurdy, 43, Alderson, W.V., had totaled three of the cars, damaging the other six. As they rushed just yards away from the Law Enforcement Center, McCurdy was attempting to leave.

McCurdy was headed eastbound from the Highway 43 bridge onto 4th Street when he attempted to take a left turn into the Walz driveway, where he hit the vehicles. He told authorities he was swerving to miss a vehicle pulling out in front of him.

Police stopped McCurdy about 25 feet from the lot, as he was attempting to leave the area.

Officers arrested McCurdy for drunken driving. His blood alcohol content level was measured at 0.20. He was charged with 2nd degree DWI because of his BAC level and because it was his second offense. He also was charged with hit-and-run and reckless driving.

McCurdy was driving for Swift Transportation of Oklahoma City, Okla.

When Ritter saw the damaged vehicles, he said he "knew we had a problem."

He called the sales manager, Mike Norris, right away.

"When (Ritter) calls you at 9 at night, it's hard to imagine," Norris said.

Butch Walz arrived with his two sons to help clean up. They, two other staff members and Ritter worked cleaning up the debris until 11 p.m.

Ritter estimated between $60,000 and $70,000 in damage. The six damaged cars will be repaired and resold.

 

Ive seen ALOT of trucks in worse shape than that!! Most of them were hotshot owner-operators that thought they knew it all. I guess it would be too much to ask if someone would actualy find out what happened before making a judgement on a person you don't even know or in most cases havn't even seen. maybe we should do more than look at the name on the truck door before making judgements

 

Wow - you guys are pretty hard on new drivers. At some point everyone of you were new drivers. Some people are out there trying their best to make a good living for their family give them a break. Maybe you "so called" experienced drivers never went through the learning curve. If the perfect experienced drivers would take on the "newbies" there would not be so many "accidents" waiting to happen.