Swift? Don't do it

I've read that too. Me personally I would put aside DOUBLE or TRIPLE that,just in case (Inframes and complete tear downs aren't cheap).

 

You could come on over to Landstar and get nickel and dimed to death.

 

Ha loss for words.

 

That's a long time to stay in a loveless relationship.

We're very well aware - The Werner Driver.

Glad you know.

 

Slightly better than PAM:
Penny
A
Mile

 

Personal

Appeal

Mercy

Had a older pam driver beg me once he realized there is enough damage to put his job into jeopardy. As I got started on the police call.

The begging was pitiful and heartbreaking. He had only two weeks with any kind of trucking and his 6th day without anyone teaching him anything in his own truck. I was feeling particulary bloody and wanting to crush him. But there was a little something deep inside that would not quit so I sort of had to be nice and keep open a path for him to maybe freaking learn as I did learn once a very long time ago. Blow the man down is one thing but to destroy him does not serve anyone any good.

 

Sounds like your issue is with the truck you got and not necessarily the policies at Swift. With 3000 miles a week you can't say they didn't keep you moving. I've never been an owner operator so I don't know the details but you could have gotten a bad truck from anywhere. Hope you get through this and good luck.

 

3000-3400 a week?

At 3200 miles a week that is 52weeks x 3200 miles = 166,400 miles a year. If you did the recommended $.10 a mile socked away in your maintenance account you should have $16,640 after just one year. Say you been doing this fleece for four years enough to run your warrantee out you should have put $66,560 in maintenance account. Minus tires and services over this length of time you should have plenty of money to cover an engine failure.

The fact of the matter if you study trucking in the least before you jumped into the fleece, most trucking companies run around $.20 cpm for trucking maintenance expenses. Therefore, the $.10 cpm is just a down payment on the maintenance you should expect. And consider, most of those trucking fleets have in-house mechanics at that expense. At Swift they are making a profit of maintaining the truck they just leased you, so you should have expected to pay more then the $.20 cpm most fleets average for maintenance.

In the business model you should set up before you entered into the fleece should of accounted for that. That is you should have socked away $33,280 a year providing you actually average 3200 a week. Over 4 years that would be $133,120 enough to rebuild that whole truck.

Listen friend, I rarely have anything good to say about Swift but your numbers and expectations are off. I don't really want to argue weather you get 3000-3400 miles a week on a Costco account because that will take this discussion down the wrong path. I just want to let those that are thinking about a fleece, Swift, or working on a Costco account. That is far above any average at Swift. If you can't make the fleece work at those miles, business is not for you.

 

Heck, when it comes to Swift, you rarely have anything accurate to say. Much less good.

 

Give me the 3000-3400 a week, company driver not at Swift, but no problem on those miles.