Complaint Review: Swift Transportation - Syracuse New York
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Swift Transportation ripoff, scammed me out of my money Syracuse New York
*UPDATE Employee: The scam man of syracuse
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First of all let me say, If I had known about "Ripoffreport.Com" I would have reported this much sooner.
I went to work for Swift Transportation at their Syracuse, NY terminal back in June, 2003. All of my paychecks were very low for an OTR driver, most of them being in the $250 to $350 range. I spoke to my superiors on several occasions about this and nothing ever changed.
The final straw was when I was in Chambersburg, PA. I went to pick up a load and the airline to the trailer was broken. I contacted my DM on the qual-comm and was told to contact their breakdown people. To make a long story short, I asked them to take me off the load to get me moving. their reply was that I couldn't just bale out of the load. My reply back was that I wasn't baling because the trailer couldn't move until it was fixed and they could bring in another driver once it was fixed. When they refused I told them I was done.
Swift told me to take the truck to their Harrisburg terminal. When I asked how I was going to get home and get my personal belongings home they told me they would put me on a bus and ship my stuff home. I refused this and told them I was bringing the truck home and I would clean it out and then take it back to their Syracuse terminal (which it was out of). They told me that would be unauthorized use of the truck and they were charging me $1 a mile.
I never got one dime of my final paycheck from them. It is my belief that once they started charging me $1 a mile, I was now renting the truck and there can be no unauthorized use. Swift has put this unauthorized use on my DAC report along with saying I cannot be rehired by them which is a signal to other truck companies to not hire me.
Don
Webster, New York
U.S.A.
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#1 UPDATE Employee
The scam man of syracuse
AUTHOR: Douglas - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Don, you complain about short paychecks, but you dont say how many miles you ran, how many driver advances you took, or how many trips you turned down that week. Now about that broken airline. If you had read your drivers manual you would have know that proper procedure was to 1st contact onroad about the airline to get the help you needed started to you. Then message your DM aout the problem. Calling him crying about a broken airline wasn't gonna help. HE'S IN SYRACUSE!!!!
How is he gonna fix the trailer??? Notknowing particulars about the ld like p/u time, dlvry time
. Icant say if you should have been taken off the ld or not you left that part out. I myself am real tired of drivers whining about not getting helped out of a problem, when so much of the time
they can use some brain power and think there way out of it. So many times drivers are given that "big blue drivers manual" and the first thing they do with it when they get their truck is stuff it into some blackhole where it mysteriously disappears never to been seen again. Those manuals are for your benefit with tons of info if only you will read it. Now if you didn't take the truck to the place you were told to what choice did the company have??? After all they did tell you what would happen if you didn't. Did you think they were kidding??? After all maybe they had a driver get released at Harrisburg yard
that needed a truck. Why is it that when drivers ask what do i do? When told choose not to do it, then cry OOOOHHHH you abused me you cheated me. No
driver they didn't. They did exactly what they said they would. By the way not turning in a truck to the place designated by the owner of the truck is a reportable offense to DAC that other companies should be aware of that this driver cant read, and chooses not to do what he is instructed to do. I work at the Syracuse terminal
and i know all of the people there. so you ain't foolin' me! I have been with swift for 7 1/2 years
all out of Syracuse yard so i know if you will be resonable with them, they will be resonable with you. LCQR Trainer, and safety rep
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