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I wish I could say the same about payroll. They're verry painful to deal with. I am an hourly driver. According to payroll. Hourly drivers don't need company advances. Even though I do more washouts and lumpers than a Otr driver. So they take out advances right away. They don't give us a week grace period like Otr drivers. So let's say I take a 240 lumper advance Thursday at 10am. But can't get home to fax the paperwork in until 2000. Well between that time period they have ran payroll for the week already. So they took out the advance but didn't reimburse me even though I sent the receipt in within 24 hours.

So so then you have to call them and hopefully talk to someone competent enouhh to issue an "on demand" so you can have a paycheck not missing 240 bucks.

The other issue I've had with payroll is their endless amounts of excuses for not processing your reimbursement automatically. I've heard lots. One was. The Po was issued Wednesday but you didn't use it until Thursday on the receipt. Can't proccess it automatically. Another that is more common is that the scanning third party company puts the receipt in as a bol. Not a receipt. One time I took some osd to the landfill and that cost 785 dollars. I screwed up and didn't send it in right away. But when I did send it in they didn't process it automatically. When I called inwas told. This is an unusual receipt. We don't see these so we need to spend days getting approval. I said. You have a PO that was issued by head of operations. That was the one time that I threatened to not come into work the next day unless that money was on my card that afternoon. At 5pm. And 3 weeks of waiting. It was finally on my card.

Basically I have gotten in the habit of emailing or calling payroll every Thursday morning to confirm that they have received my receipts.

But other than payroll. I can't complain too much about swift. Besides the strict fueling. I make good pay. Have a generic 401k plan. Now if only we got holiday pay or a generous vacation package like the office workers. I'd be very happy. Swift has a lot of dedicated accounts. Local. Regional. You name it. Lots of opportunity with swift. Just remember. When you pass cr or prime going 58. That should remind you. You're not at the worse of the megas.

 

I've gotta ask, what's "good money"? Heard a lot of guys thanking Swift for all they provide, making 32k a year...

 

It's all relative ... for 2013 50% of income earners were below $28K ... so if you beat $28, you're doing better than most ... now the average of all income earners was $43K ... beat $43K and you're better than average and better than 66% of other income earners.

 

That is one he'll of a way to avoid an answer, haha.

 

As a otr swift company driver I made over 50k last year. But like mystic said it's all relative. My brother would laugh at that amount he makes high 6 figures.

 

Does swift have per diem pay?

 

It is offered. You can sign up for it over the Q/C I believe.

 

Thanks man. Yes I am an experienced driver looking at swift, for quite a few reasons. The are offering me good money per mile the benefits seem decent and they have a ton of dedicated opportunities. Also they don't seem to be lacking in freight.

I have had issues finding the right company and the right fit for me.

 

So the per diem is optional, do you know if it's per mile and how much or by the day like 59 a day?

 

It's by the mile, but I don't know how they calculate it. There is an explanation in the drivers manual. I don't get paid that way so I am not really all that familiar with how it works.