First major issue with my truck....

dang, and you're driving a 80,000lb lethal weapon? not only can you not read, you cant count either. if you look at my status i have 2 yrs experience. I changed it to 32 because a few months ago, there was a thread where we all talked about how someone use to color in their dads log books, so they could claim to have started driving back then. Then i said my dad drove truck for 30 yrs, so i could claim his experience as mine. so the '32 yrs exp.' was a joke. A joke....is a story with a humorous climax. And i never 'made fun of' L/Os. I just said you cannot call yourself an O/O cause you dont own the truck. And you cant call yourself "independant contractor" cause you arent really independant....since you can only drive the lease truck pulling swift loads. And the bill i got the first time i took my truck to the KW dealership was for $320. the battery was $100-120, and the rest was labor and 'shop supplies'. If you want, i can scan the bill and post it on here. and i'm not 28..i'm 36.

and as far as your 'status'.....anything you do dont impress me, cause i've already done it. ......EXCEPT FOR PULLING AWAY FROM A TRAILER WITH MY AIR LINES STILL ATTACHED.

 

every company has 'crap' you have to put up with. unless you drive for a mom-and-pop outfit, who wont last much farther into 2015, all companies have something their drivers dont like. They could be a great outfit as far as their equipment, but their terminals are dumps. or great terminals and shops...but the trucks are 30 yrs old. take your pick. you dont have one without the other.

Do i plan to drive for Swift for 30 yrs? who knows. I'll go wherever i'm happy. what i make, i make because its what i'm happy with. i dont care what someone else thinks of what i make. it dont bother me....but it must bother them cause they always seem to make a big deal about it. LOL

 

"vast terminal network"....i can tell you've been on-hold with swift long enough to memorize that off the recording.

Direct Deposit.....this a 'swift only' thing? no other carrier does this?? wow...swift is 'best in class'...LOL

"Excellent Lease Program".....excellent? i wouldn't go as far as to say its "excellent". its not the best, but its not 'excellent'. if it were excellent, they'd allow drivers to 'walk away' without having to find someone to take over leasing the truck....

Loose leaf logs? been doing loose leaf logs for the past year and a half....its called Driver Daily Log.com, run off my laptop. I still print out the old red log format, and will continue to do so till they tell me i cant....which wont be for a while. =)

Award winning drivers? LOL....count how many trucks have "thanks a million" stickers on the side of their trucks. not many. and some that do have them on the truck, must have been given to them, or stolen. LOL

MAN....you've GOT to have SWIFT on your tennis shoes. You probably spent the $200 on the cheap pleather swift jacket, have the swift clipboard, swift toiletry bag, swift backpack and the swift helmet. =)

 

well early friday morning, i went MT dropping the load off at the Wal-Mart DC in Ottawa, KS. Then was told to bobtail to the Wal-Mart DC i'm running out of now, till the 24th (just to keep me close to home to make it easier on my DM to get me home for christmas). i was to have a run saturday night, but it didnt happen cause they wanted to be sure i knew how the DC operated. (which i already knew cause my mentor was based out of a wal-mart DC) I was told i was going to get a load saturday morning, which didnt happen....i got one for sat. night, and took off about 2-3p and got back early this morning. I'm now getting ready to take a nap before i head out again on a 400 mi round tripper with 3 stops.

 

then i stand corrected. i did not know the miles could be pro-rated...which is gay....because that dont mean jack, to me. so you run 3 months, and average 2500 mi? to me, that driver dont have the experience to be platinum. they dont have the experience i'd want (if i were a planner) to feel comfortable that driver knows what they're doing.

Injun, you know the requirement to get diamond?? you have to be Platinum for 12 consecutive quarters...or 3 yrs. Hmmmmmm....i've only been driving for 2 yrs...so even if i was free from service failures the entire time, i'd still not qualify.

where is your diamond?