Swift Is Good

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  1. t2000isx

    t2000isx Light Load Member

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    Its your responsibility to set call your DM and set your RDO when you want to go home, not your DM's.

    the trucks are being cut from 65 mph to 62 mph not 58

    i run JIT loads EVERYDAY, if you run your ### off and earn 747 division thats all you run

    and they want 60% O/O by next year not 90%
     
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  3. t2000isx

    t2000isx Light Load Member

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    when you go for orientation ask to do flatbed.

    It requires an extra week of classes, and 2 weeks minimum with a flatbed mentor, you may end up 4 weeks van because of the shortage of flatbed mentors. Pays .01 cents extra, tarp pay and some other stuff.

    Good luck
     
  4. SkiddyFisk

    SkiddyFisk Light Load Member

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    I've heard tales from the mechanics that sometimes the turndown process screws up and a truck will top out at about 30 with the speedo reading 62. All good fun, I'm sure.
     
  5. Mom2des_n_nate

    Mom2des_n_nate Light Load Member

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    My truck had been turned back to 58 mph. No matter what I requested RDO as it was 9 to 10 days past before I would get home. Swift is not what it appears to be.
     
  6. MattsWays28

    MattsWays28 Bobtail Member

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    :biggrin_2559: hahaha. I was at a truck stop about 2 weeks ago in Sunbury,OH There was this swift there trying to back that poor guy it took him almost an hour to back and get this he has about 26 feet of room in front of him but he insisted on doing a ninety!?!:biggrin_25511: Anyway he eventually made it towards where I was parked and tried the same #### thing he #### near hit my tractor but I got out and hollered WHOA!!! he stopped got out of his truck and started walking towards me I said hey do you want some help he said nah I got it. I was like ooooook well anyway I eventually ended up backing it for him...:biggrin_2559: he stayed in the jump seat those swift trucks actually turn pretty sharp I got it in there for him he didn't even say thanks but oh well at least he didn't hit my truck. He said he been driving about 3 days...:biggrin_25513:haha
     
  7. druid2874

    druid2874 Light Load Member

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    I guess I am going to be mean when I say this ether you are full of it or YOU ARE letting it happen. 1st if your truck is set at 58mph go to any terminal go to the shop and say my truck is set at 58mph can you please set it back to 62mph. That’s all you got to do it takes 5 min tops. 2nd your RDO is simple tell DM set my RDO to 10 days 14 days or what ever you want it set at. Then at night time after 6pm when day shift and your dm leaves call up your terminal or hell any terminal. Then tell the person that answers the phone your truck number and say what is my RDO set at. Then if its not right next morning message your DM and ask him or her why your RDO is not set right and tell him or her to set it right then do above again to check if it was done. If for some reason its not done right after the 2nd time. call the dm's boss that would be the FM.
     
  8. desert_son

    desert_son Light Load Member

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    I always got back at my requested RDO. I'd let my DM know when I wanted to be home when I went out. I would remind him about 1 week left he never let me down.
     
  9. desert_son

    desert_son Light Load Member

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    Need to past workwell for flatbed
    lift & carry a weighted milk crate (60ish pounds) about 15 feet & back, 3x,
    step up & down a truck step unassisted 3x
    stand on one foot for 10 seconds,
    then the other-pull a bar with 100 pounds of force-push the same bar the same amount-pull down on a tie down with enough force
    more crate lifting, from floor to waist height 3x,
    then waist to head height 3x(the highest weight is 85#).
    If you can't do 85# you fail flatbed, but still qualify for van.
     
  10. Mom2des_n_nate

    Mom2des_n_nate Light Load Member

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    It doesn't really make a difference now Swift is a joke thats why I got away from them I have much better job with a smaller company that truely is family oriented and I am out 5 days max instead of 3 or 4 weeks. Speed on truck is 70 I am not monitored by computer tracking device(aka qual comm) I am paid actual odometer miles not what Swift thinks you should be paid I choose when and where I fill up and run which ever route works the best. In other words I am not longer a puppet on a string.. :biggrin_25522:
     
  11. SkiddyFisk

    SkiddyFisk Light Load Member

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    If your truck is set low, they probably just did it wrong, see my earlier post. They turned mine down, but it'll still do about 63.5 before the governor kicks in. It's actually better now, I can just put the hammer down and forget it without getting buzzed for overspeeding.
     
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