Yet another "Swift" move.

Injun now we know the real reason for rogue waves though. A family of whales started collectively farting between 2 underwater mountain ranges. As the initial wave came back after being deflected the whales farted again giving more power to the initial wave.

 

I'd rather the government take a vacation and stop making laws...

 

Like that's gonna happen.....

 

Touche.....

 

Your explination of the pay and training was very elloquant. But not complete or correct. They have a pay matrix that varies with time and miles of load. For your other insightful response let us just use the numbers. 16,000+ trucks and in 2010 over 1 billion recorded miles according to government records.
Rather than try to explain it here just go to the CSA site and check the percentile rankings of Swift compared to other companies.
http://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS/Data/Search.aspx

 

Its all good dude like Injun said you can't train stupid out of someone no matter what company they work for.

 

Not true. One of the guys I went to training with has spent the last 8 weeks running mostly the short runs, because the "experienced" drivers want the longer runs. He would do a short one or two that linked him to a nice cruise out of the northland. But it is nice that you bad mouth a company that you do not work for, but know an awful lot about. Oh yea thats right your facts were a little off. But it is the company that I work for, the one that pays my bills and gives me health insurance and a 401k so excuse me if I take offense to some of the blatant BS that pops up once in a while.
I get it, we all fly different colors and tease the other companies. That is expected. Just try to be respectful in the statements and remember it was the driver not the truck.... I have seen poor drivers in all different colors of trucks some were even Independents and O/O.

 

Their numbers are high...regardless of how many units they have.

To be fair....I utilized Wal-Mart by name

Company A - Greater than 10,000 trucks

Company B - Less than 10,000 trucks trucks

Swift - Greater than 15,000 trucks

Wal-Mart - Less than 7,000 trucks

 

Percentage wise. # of units and miles driven divided by number of accidents is pretty much in line with the industry at about 10%. Some companies are well above that 10% mark. The number of crashes is higher but so are the number of units in operation and miles driven. Simple math tells you that the law of averages will keep everyone at around 10%

 

Again, as said in a different thread, comparing a company (WalMart) that requires a perfect three-year record to a company specifically set up to train, with more than twice as many trucks (Swift) is comparing apples to oranges.

WalMart drivers are not allowed to chain up. If roads require chains, WalMart trucks park. They do not run night loads. We run those loads for them. The average experience level of a Walmart driver, company wide, is more than twice the experience level of an average Swiftie. WalMart trucks are not OTR trucks. At most, they are regional.

Why aren't we comparing crashes per million miles between Swift, Schneider, Prime, Werner, CR England and Knight? Throwing WalMart into the mix only muddies the results.