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Complaint Review: Swift Transportation - Louisville Kentucky

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  • Swift Transportation 2200 S. 75th Ave Louisville, Kentucky U.S.A.

Swift Transportation lease RIPOFF breach of contract and some rant and advice for new guys Louisville, Kentucky

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First, let me state swift was alot better than schneider to me, they really do have alot of loads, short on trailers, their mechanics and drivers suck alot. not as many chicks work here as other companies, its the right place to run team, with the wrong pay scale. and i was a complete moron for leasing a truck from them. or anyone, I'm like a brain surgeon who wants to make the knives he cuts the skull open with. what the h**l was i thinking. 70 hours a week wasnt enough for me.

Things were not great, as a company driver, but I was taking home 1 grand a week for 2 straight monthes, not bad for a guy who had his cdl only 9 monthes old. who only ran legal. so things were going so good, i got my own lease truck through them.

Now here's the contract, only thing really promised in any sense of the word is that they 'will make a reasonable effort to get you dispatched on loads with no guarantee of time and tonnage' or something to that effect.

What that really means, overgross loads, and I don't mean a few hundred pounds. 1500, get dispatched on a load to a place with the wrong business name/number on dispatch, and u somehow find the place. The load has been gone 12 hours, u get a load almost to the consignee, you call to check to make sure this place you've been to before is open this late, and they aren't open at your appointment time. so you call to get it called, and move on, and u sit, 4-5 hours because, by then, they figure you fell asleep, and still, they ignore you.

Detention pay, whats that? hazmat pay, huh? fuel deductions 'when trip is recieved or 14 days, whichever is sooner' yeah, right. i wish.

Oh yes, and the arbitration 'mediator' claus, the american arbitration association, thats what that means, search ooida for it, 100 bucks for a folder? 3000% what a court cost, NOTHING gets thrown out (boy if you already knew a billion dollar company could bleed u out in litagation, how about if they could argue ketchup from mars made you think u were ella fitzgerald, and you were late for a party, and thats why your upset, yeah, NOTHING gets thrown out, except you, when u get tricked into agreeeing to arbitration, that is, you dispute something or try to take them to court' the problem with this is, oh, im sorry, did you think you were gonna get a nice paycheck next week? im sorry we took out todays fuel, and next week, your gonna be doing alot of sitting, dont forget to make that truck payment we deduct, do we really care if you sit a whole day and cost you 100 bucks off the top. no we are swift, and we didnt feel like entering the right information in the qualcomm, we didnt feel like actually doing inspections of our trailers, sit for a day, get a few tires, slack adjustors changed, we will pay for the repair, and time is no object, its your dime

I am sorry but you mistaked us for people who vaguely gave a d**n about our contractors or our loosely worded 'ambigious' contract. (and ask a lawyer what ambigious wording means)

Ooida is happy to look over contracts to its members, its only 20 bucks to join, and guys ready to sign contracts get first read over guys who already signed. join it if you even think about leasing seriously. and if your more serious, pay a diesel mechanic you personally know to help you fix up a used truck, they have to provide their own tools, so thats not a problem and i never met one who couldnt use extra money.

you wana haul high value, hazmat, just in time loads, be a contractor, why is this, these are the loads they match to their qualcomms against their logbooks. just jit, hm, and hv. all else they dont have time to watch. small fleets know this, driver managers, terminal managers, safety guys know this, so they give it to their contractors. but they will still catch you if fueling times dont match up. and the newer trucks out there, there are no 'tricks'. no more grounding of the qualcomm wires.

Are you not on a dedicated route and want miles, send in your mac 10 at 1 minute past midnight, as much as possible, they wont catch on TOO fast, but you will get some sweet loads. eventually they will try to change it, so you dont keep getting at the top of the list. so change it again after they do, they dont have time to do this, this goes for any company, if the company does them at a past midnight basis, or by a after loaded call basis, send them ASAP, its really more important to making money than you hitting the road 5 minutes quicker.

I've met some worse rip offs out there, one company i wont mention their name, i met a few lease ops who were -2000, i was never there, not even during katrina, but its a ripoff. u cant pull enough freight legally if someone else went to the shippers and consignees and left the truck loaded and waiting in a rest area for you I don't care how many horsepower you got, get your own license to broker freight and operating authority and truck and trailer and insurance and then you can afford to have some drunk come up and hit your truck, while your asleep in the bunk, it happens ya know, engines go out too, legs get broken, your living on the edge at best when your under a company.

I've seen some idiots at this company, but I've seen them everywhere, it will lighten up in 10 years or so when there is less of a rush to get new drivers out there. do the drivers at swift suck, yeah, but what kind of person even wants to be a trainer, i turned it down. its not for me. u have to be a jerk or most drivers wont even listen to you.

I've seen team drivers say the other one was driving, that was funny, I've seen owner ops not know they took the wrong load yesterday. and then i give him his trailer, and he gets into an accident, not 15 minutes later. and comes over to tell me the company driver of 2 monthes that swift is gonna pay for their driver hitting him. i was told by their insurance adjustors it was 'possible' i hit a truck and did not leave one dent, but just scratch marks, and just on the plastic bumper which is even to the hood, not to mention flexible (the side of a covenant columbia) and my own safety guy told me since he wasnt sueing, it was cheaper than contesting it, for the company. valued at 1$ of damage.

I've seen a guy not on the trainer truck 10 minutes when the trainer convinced him to slide axels on the scale (broken scale, torn out differential) I've seen swift drivers literally try to run me off the road, I've had to have every part of my air conditioner replaced, and then it still wasnt fixed cause stuff wasnt installed right,

I've delivered a load, picked up a load, delivered a load, picked up a load, got 400 miles in all in one shift. legally. yeah you can make money at swift, you might get ran off the road, get a crappy truck, get treated like crap, tricked. i was really lucky my first dm used to be a driver way back when.

A final note, truck driving isnt a quick buck, its a paycheck, but you could do alot more things to make money, h**l go to broker school, they make more money than us, and screw us all day long, sell cars, learn a foreign language, get a language pathologist license, get a captains license, six pack license, eastern rivers license, pilots license, license to broker freight, acting license, stripping license, public notary, airplane mechanic, now theres a good paying union gig you wont ever lose, those planes require hella inspections. There are licenses out there for everything you will come to find out, this isn't for everyone, I tried a local job, I thougth to myself I've driven in 40 something states, I could do it. Thats a different breed, there are all kinds of drivers, an otr driver is the hardest one, thats why we have the fewest accidents. we beat out dedicateds, and locals and regionals and rails, and docks by quite a bit, teamsters tho, they are strict, they kick all our asses, and they pay by the hour, and get home, thats a super trucker who is experienced and reliable. not just some grad who gets home everynight and hand unloads a trailer cause he never made this much money before. good luck

Matthew
Louisville, Kentucky
U.S.A.

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