Swift Drivers Start a Positive trend

Are you kidding? Even if they do lose they will drag it out in court to where you never see a dime. That's their point. If it was easy to go to court and win then they know they'd have alot of cases on file.

How much money has the fisherman up in Alaska made from the Exxon Valdez spill? Just enough to pay their lawyers to foreclose on their house. I wish it weren't so.

 

I think it depends. Are you going to see multi-millions....more than likely no. Could you get some,yes. I know two people who were formerly employed by my current employer that took action for wrongful termination and won. The first fellow got 30k,and the second got 4 months of salary awarded back too him.

 

OP: There's no trend. This case has been hanging since 2004 and it's one of many cases brought by company drivers and lease operators against Swift, PRIME, and other carriers over the years; some of the cases were brought by OOIDA (and OOIDA members) and for that OOIDA deserves a tip of the hat. CRE is in court right now over irregularities in leases and unreturned escrow funds.

The cases drag on for years. The current case against Swift is unusual in that the class was finally certified after a decision and a couple of appeals. In some cases the class was not certified. Depends on the judges involved.

The issue in the Swift lawsuit is pay-per-mile. Swift pays on HHG (I don't know that it charges customers on HHG) and it tells new drivers that it pays on HHG. Newbies may, understandably, not be quite sure what that means ("I'm paid by the mile. A mile is a mile, isn't it?"). But let's see what happens with the case. Swift isn't going to back down.