Swift... Don't go there!!

WOW. Where do I begin with this?

30K for the 3600 or so (70 per week) hours that you spend working, works out to about $8 an hour.

You have the responsibility of safely moving 80,000 pounds down the road for the same money as a 16 year old kid flipping burgers...

If you consider that while not "working" you are sitting away from home in a truck stop, the pay is much less than $8.

If you are happy living that life for that kind of money, you may want to reconsider your life choices.

Back to the "working" part. If you are still responsible for that company truck while it is sitting in that truck stop, then aren't you still "working"? If so, then your pay just dropped to $5 an hour.

 

$30,000 a year? HOLEY ####. Is that what Swift pays it's new drivers or are you making that kind of money long term?

 

You've been trucking for one year and still applied at swift? That's kind weird imo.

 

Hey now if were comparing flipping burgers in san francisco at their min wage working 70 hours a week for 42 weeks a year you would gross 34986 a year with 833 a week...

but lets be realistic for a minute no fast food joint is going to pay 30 hours a week of over time so with that if you work 40 an hour at their min wage you get 392 a week and gross after 52 weeks is 20384...

soo thats is a big difference just sayin this whole comparing wages to flipping burgers is not a great comparison

i picked sanfrancisco because to my knowledge they have the highest min wage in the country at 9.80

 

I agree. Although I got screwed at SWIFT and later exonerated from a judge but alot of the drivers i seen at the terminals were pissed off and some just loved it. it was only because they got into something that they had no clue over what they were getting into, so ya they were all pissy and id bet that none of them drive today.

 

I worked for Swift, lasted 4 months. My first trainer was a pedophile and talked about his 19 year old wife, now this guy was 54. He meet her when she was 16 in the phillipines, and said he would have gotten her younger but he couldn't get her into the United States. He belonged to a Young love club for me to meet over seas women to marry. So I demanded to be taken off the truck, the second trainer was a "PIG" this man had a one gallon jug of piss he kept in the sleeper and when he opened it, it made you want to efhn puke. He was older and hooked on Pain pills from having his hip replaced, so bad all he did was float the gears except for 1st, so after he got popped for being a druggie i was put in my own rig. I took a load up from Cali to Oregon to deliver on the 22nd i pulled in early on the19th and asked for a early delivery and they said not, so i took it to My terminal and locked it down in the secure lot told the Terminal manager that the load was secure and i was going home till Tuesday as there is no need for me to stay in my truck, he said no problem, and to make sure i turn in my paperwork.

I came back on Tuesday and my truck was gone, they took it and cleaned it out. Fired me, said i refused to deliver the load,,, i was like WTF? HUH? it was the 21st and your firing me because i didn't deliver a load that isn't due or going to accepted till the 22nd at midnight, so basically the 23rd? Correct!! and put it on my record that I refused to deliver the load, dirty ########.

But with any company your going to have someone happy and someone pissy it wakes me the ball go round. I have ran into both from different companys from Schneider to swift to Gordon, so i guess it depends on the attitude of the driver. m

My advice is "Shut the #### Up and Drive"

 

Id say most people quit the industry after 6 months or so...

 

i agree if they didn't the cdl mills would have no use

 

That would be devastating for me/us.

 

My fiance has been working for Swift for about a month now, and still has yet to come home. He was told by another driver to give 9 days notice when he wants home-time, so he should have been home last weekend. They're messing up his pay (showing advances that he has never even taken). There are only two which have been accounted for in the previous weeks. They supposedly have a limit of $110/wk, and this last pay showed $350 taken out - which is impossible! I've been sending him money via a prepaid card from our joint checking account, so there should not even be any advances listed. He's contacted his DM about it, and has had no response. It's absolutely crazy!! He has over 15 years OTR experience and was promised .40 cpm (in writing) and we have yet to see that. Plus they never activated his per diem, and have not responded to his requests to fix that either. Suffice it to say, we are frustrated to no end. He has made every drop on time - and even ahead of time. I'm just not sure what to do, or how to best handle the situation.

Any advice?