My experience with Swift.

They removed them..because their attys said it's a liability evidently

 

Meaning that the face cam was giving the accident victims too much evidence?

 

Yep..they're own attys got tired of trying to defend the videos in court apparently..lol

 

It's ironic that drivers are being sat or getting ridiculously low miles because there is "no freight". At the same time there is a "driver shortage" crises because companies can't move all the freight that is in demand. So which is it? Trucking companies are crying so hard that they can't get enough drivers to move all the freight, and now they are going to be allowed to put 18 y.o. teenagers behind the wheel. Why, so they can be sat and told there's "no freight"? I really don't get this industry sometimes...

 

They can get the freight moved it’s just that they don’t wanna pay a decent living wage to get said freight moved.(cheap labor)

 

Some... maybe, but that still doesn't explain why these companies sit drivers claiming there's "no freight".

 

Too many competitors in certain markets. Especially in the dry van market.

 

So does that mean that the driver shortage only applies to certain types of freight, like dry van's? If that's the case then companies like Swift should only hire new drivers for reefer or whichever market is in highest demand. I'm not arguing with your point, just really trying to figure out the paradox. Is it "no freight", or "driver shortage"?

 

More like a combination of both. Nobody really wants to do reefer because of the abysmal waiting times and other BS associated with it. At the same time there’s too many people in the dry van market fighting for what is basically “table scraps”as far as freight is concerned. Either way a majority of the companies want the loads moved by drivers who are willing to work for only 16-20 cents on the mile (which most drivers would quit before letting that happen).
So it’s a combination of factors, not just one