1. Truckdrivingtrailerpuller

    Truckdrivingtrailerpuller Light Load Member

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    Rumors are that Knight Refrigeration bought up Swift and then absorbed its valuable assets leaving Swift with a questionable future.

    Can anyone confirm or deny this?

    They were on my radar for allowing pets for company drivers.
     
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  3. tucker

    tucker Road Train Member

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    It’s true.
    17,000 drivers are about to be out of a job.
     
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  4. Odin's Rabid Dog

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    Well that should take care of the driver shortage.
     
  5. skellr

    skellr Road Train Member

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    Rumors are only true if you hear them from a TA "Mechanic".
     
  6. Slow down


    Swift is having Knight management team run the two companies. They are not dumping drivers.

    You think a company will cut it's own throat by cutting it monitory source.

    Do some homework


    Swift has 15k trucks
    Knight has 5k trucks


    Knight-Swift Transportation is expected to operate with 23,000 tractors, 77,000 trailers, and over 70 service locations in 30 states, along with three locations throughout Mexico.
     
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  7. Dennixx

    Dennixx Road Train Member

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    Mom said if I can't say something nice....
     
  8. supersnackbar

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    I think the only people that might lose their jobs are the folks that work in terminals that have both Swift and Knight yards in the same town. Unlike Flying J/Pilot, it would be a waste to have 2 terminals in the same town, and there are bound to be jobs at both that overlap, so, just combining personell wouldn't work if there are 2 people doing the same job when they only need 1 for that job.
     
  9. skellr

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    Knight isn't big enough to plug a toilet yet. :D
     
  10. Chinatown

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    I heard it at the salad bar at the Petro from a former Navy SEAL. He also told me there are 6 ways to assassinate a communist with a sharpened carrot stick.
     
  11. buddyd157

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    6 former rangers, 12 former paratroopers, and 45 green berets, and 1 navy seal told me too...

    then the waitress came along and said she heard it from a priest, on vacation in Vegas, that got a hooker pregnant.
     
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