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In 2024 why NOT go to swift?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by HogazWild, Apr 25, 2024.

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  1. Apr 27, 2024 #21
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    201 Road Train Member

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    HA! I forgot about JB. What do you get when a JB Hunt truck leaves a truckstop? 3 parking spaces,:laughing-guffaw:
     
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  3. Apr 27, 2024 #22
    PacoTaco

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    What about those little toy JB Hunt trucks? They had to recall them because they kept jackknifing.
     
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  4. Apr 27, 2024 #23
    Moose1958

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    One of my Uncles drove for JB for close to 30 years. I would be scared to estimate how many million miles he drove. I was in my early 20s and we were at a family reunion he and my Aunt were attempting to back his pickup with a slide-in camper shell in it. My father laughed at him for years after that day. I wish I had taken photos because he never got the pickup in the parking lot correctly.
     
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  5. Apr 27, 2024 #24
    Ex-Trucker Alex

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    If I had some masochistic desire for abuse and decided to drive for Swift, I'd do the same thing I did back when I worked for JB: keep my CB off almost all the time. I often kept it on 'company channel'. My Uniden CB also monitored ch9, back when people still sometimes used that.
     
    Ex-Trucker Alex, Apr 27, 2024
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  7. Apr 27, 2024 #25
    HogazWild

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    My arguments for Swift:
    1. You probably won't get laid off. 500+ truck fleets are doing mass layoffs right now
    2. Contracts everywhere and mostly drop and hook
    3. Terminals/parking everywhere
    4. They can't treat you any worse than other companies with over 50 trucks. Talk to you like trash, mess up home requests, why are you sitting in a backup, how dare you be late scum, how dare you come in to the office with the humans, say no get layover etc.
    5. Wreckless? Compared to who since COVID-19? Since the early two-thousands most mega Carriers have hired basically anyone who applied anyway; not even looking at work history. It got even worse in 2020 when desperate untrained people who use to turn their noses up at trucking bum-rushed company and o/o in mass...
    6. A way for drivers to F over most carriers who treat drivers like dog ####, or are pure nepotism, and get paid at the same time..
     
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  8. Apr 27, 2024 #26
    Moosetek13

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    As much as I like working at Swift, the loads are pretty scarce right now. At least for company drivers.

    The new load board went live for owner operators earlier this month and they are snagging up most of the loads. Or so it seems.
     
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  9. Apr 27, 2024 #27
    HogazWild

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    It's the market... Companies are shutting down and laying off everywhere, and every freight type is paying at least .60 less than it was in 2018...

    Covid saturated the industry and people are running break-even freight.. Those people need to leave for rates to go up and volume to free up..

    I'm at a top-tier mega right now about to do a mass lay off.. At Swift you're more protected because they have so many contracts
     
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  10. Apr 27, 2024 #28
    AModelCat

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    Why not specialize? Learn to do the types of trucking others are afraid to try?
     
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  11. Apr 28, 2024 #29
    OlegMel

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    Sad part is megas like swifty can haul freight for under $2 a mile… driver gets paid $0.50 if not less. Fuel per mile is under $0.50 since they drive slow….they win on volume big time…
     
    OlegMel, Apr 28, 2024
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  12. Apr 28, 2024 #30
    Moosetek13

    Moosetek13 Road Train Member

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    Actually, I make 64 cpm and I am happy with 65 mph.

    Drivers going much faster than that seem to be in competition with each other, staying all bunched up on the bumpers and trying for that one extra mile an hour.
    Stressful and dangerous, in my opinion. i like to relax.
     
    Moosetek13, Apr 28, 2024
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