SWIFT

That is one reason why this industry will never unite. Another big one is a lack of professionalism and mutual respect. The first thing drivers look at is the name on the side of the door. then they look at whether the driver is male or female, THEN they look at skin color.

What is sad is that there is no courtsey on the road anymore either. No flashes to passing drivers (again, depending on the carrier) no thank you flashes in return (again, depends on carrier) and how often do drivers say 'please', 'thank you' and 'you're welcome' over the CB or after another holds the door open for you going into a truck stop.

 

Actually, not long at all. I'm not sure what you were getting at there.

 

These are the Swift pay raters my recruiter told me:

.25 start
.29 4 months
.32 6 months
.33 9 months
,34 1 year

 

it dont take a genius, but think he is saying a whole nickle per mile difference isnt much of a difference at all. Sure if you made a .05 more than Swift, and you ran exactly the same miles, and everything else being equal, sure, at May you'd make $115 more a week....oh yeah, thats before taxes, your child support and alimony. So you're making MAYbe (no pun, really) $50 more in your pocket per week. I save that by grilling out 5 times a week rather than eating fast food.

But i must be really doing pretty well. cause i've been with swift for 9 months, and i'm already making .34cpm so i'm 3 months ahead of the curve. =)

 

Wow ... that is just stupid. Quick math tells me a nickel a mile is worth $6 grand (plus) a year. That has to be the stupidest reply I have ever seen.

For the other forum posters, a penny increase per mile equals a little over $1 grand a year based on 2,500 miles a week. This is real money, especially when you can make a dime more a mile if you do your research.

I would like to challenge some of the posters to increase the value of their posts, maintain an above avg money management IQ, and stick with the facts regarding corporate policys.

Best of luck to all.

 

yeah...and how much of that $6k will you be taking home?? maybe $3,500?? yeah, thats about $300 a month. good spending money, but tell me how much will you really make, pretending to be a NFL runningback holding out for a better contract. They hold out, miss 80% of practice, how 'good' are they going to be, really, during the season?? (not that THAT matters driving a truck...but still)

Its like those drivers who whine about not getting miles, yet they turn down short haul runs. Gimme those, gimme any miles. While you sit, moan and groan about not getting miles, waiting on something over 500 miles, ill take 3-4 runs in a few says and bank 400 miles. Thats 400 miles more than sitting going thru box after box of Puffs.

Same holds true for holding out for that one company that pays .30cpm for a newb, than going with another that gets .25cpm. You wait 2 months holding out, while another driver starts driving at .25cpm. how much more will you really be making?? I'm not one to whine about how much i make, or how many loaded miles i'm getting. I'd rather work and be doing something. Besides....i'd rather have a job and WORK than not.

 

In 2005, I was let go from a company I worked for thanks to downsizing and being replaced with two temps...so, I decided to get back into driving. I have been driving big vehicles since 1991 when I enlisted, and commmercially off and on since 97. In 2005 I decided to go through a "refresher" of sorts. I narrowed the choices to Swift or Schneider. I decided to go with Swift because I wanted to do flatbed.

Swift put the students in a hotel and used this hotel as the students address in many cases. This was over the Thanksgiving holiday in 2005. They sent the students back home, and said that when they returned they would have met the length of time to meet the criteria to have been considered a "resident" in the state of Tennessee, so a c.d.l. could be issued to them.

I thought this was odd, but I kept on. I did all the driving there was to do and all the obstacles on the driving course also and was helping others who had no "clue" what they were doing..... Test time, took the test, took the written portion inside a building in a room with many computers, (At the Memphis Tennessee terminal). At the back of the room there were three or more Tennessee law enforcement officers entering the information into the computer system, taking your picture and issuing your c.d.l...so you would think things were ok.....right?.............not so.......

Since that time I drove for Swift for a while, moved to Virginia then worked recovery , drove for over a year otr with another company out of Tennessee, then a smaller outfit out of Mississippi,then decided to become an owner operator..................

Fast Forward to 2 September 09..........I am driving along on the way to my next load, driver manager tells me to stop, and to call safety, I call safety, and my C.D.L. has been revoked....It states in the computer system per my annual review that my license is revoked as if I have gotten a ticket I never paid for or something.(Im someone who has never had a ticket or accident).... Upon safety calling, they are told that my license was revoked due to "fradulent information submitted on the application", upon me talking to Tennessee, I am told that it was due to "certain practices" deemed unacceptable by the "third party testing"...(I am wondering how it could be third party when there were Tennessee law enforcement officers present????

So now I am sitting in a truck I am paying for, and one that I cannot drive for liability reasons, due to an internal audit that the state of Tennessee has done, on a license I have been driving on since 2005, and one that expires in December this year, on my birthday little over two months from now....keep in mind I have gone through quite a few inspections, logbook checks etc. where I had to present my license, and there was never an indication of a problem.......I cannot get an answer from the state of Tennessee what type of "audit" they were doing when some genius decided to just "shut me down".....If this is being done to someone who has driven for years safely and with no issues what so ever......

I would avoid Swift if at all possible because the company could be doing other things you may not know about which may actually come back to cause you harm and suffering in the future......literally......

 

Man, lol, you made that post 10 times harder to read by using that font.

Did the stuff involved with Swift Academy Licenses Suspended have anything to do with it since it was from the same time period?

 

Or May Trucking.

 

DuraCELL, unless you live under a rock and/or don't check your mail, you'd have never known. true. However letters were mailed out by the state of Tenn., not to mention how many times did it come up in local news? I remember seeing a thing on YouTube on it, i think.

Granted, Swift used a 3rd party and THEY pretty much gave CDLs away. But don't hate the company because you failed to check your mail. Anybody i've run into who went to the Millington school, i've suggested they call their local DMV and double check that their CDL is good.

You seemed to like it just fine before this. Now that mistakes were made on both sides, don't start putting all the blame at the doorstep of Swift.