Swift Driving Acadamy ripoff Frued discrimination and slander leading to theft of four thousand dollars Lewiston Idaho

Yes, I surely appreciate your imput, very very much.

I was extremely damaged psychologically. I have never ever been treated so badly.

I think that the quality of people at Swift is as you said, not the best.

I did not mean you were angry, rather i was describing my process of recovery.

I have also had some good luck work wise and I still respect Truckers, although, I will never be a trucker. The experience at Swift has crushed that dream.


I am so happy that you have a great job and that you had a holiday, really!

Oh I am over it and am not angry. I just like to put out facts I know about this company because I know there are Swift cronies out there who read this. My wife works in a laboratory so losing this job just took cush money. I have had a wonderful two month vacation and will start a new job paying a lot more with less hours.

It was quite an experience to work for this company after I heard so much of them while I was an OTR driver. I learned that about all I heard was true. They are a sub-par company with sub-par management---which again I experienced all the way to the VP of human resources, safety and whatever else she weasled her way into. I watched lower level management fail and watched his manager do nothing to correct it. I watched these managers scramble to save their hide which in turn made some good employees loose their jobs.

Bottom line it is all about profit, which I can understand. I do not write these reports in anger, I write them to get the goats of people like Super trucker Nate who responded with some wonderful information to another new hire that got the shaft as many new people do that tangle with this entity called Swift. I write these reports because I experience this company first hand and can truthfully put out information about the crap training, standards, safety, and management.

Life has far more meaning when we are challenged by circumstances beyond our control.

How we reconcile ourselves to these unforseen events is what measures us as human beings.
Anger, then depression then ,more anger and then more depression until one day the entire situation that was so awful just vanishes into the haze of the past.
All things must pass.

If swift was in Sierra Leon, Iraq, or sudan they might have cut off one of our hands. As it was the cut off part of my joy, but that jsut makes it easier for me to spot similar situations in the future.

I believe that these individuals who have forgotten their humanity are very much alive and well at Swift. So just move on.

The reason you went to the Lewiston Academy is because they closed the Portland Academy. The Kansas City Academy was supposed to be the first to be shut down under Jerry's new rule but instructors at the Portland Academy got wind of their range being bought so they put KC on hold and rushed to Oregon. All the while never telling us in KC we were going to be jobless in a month. Your recruiter was probably one of the many outside recruiters Swift must use.

I dealt with both Swift recruiters and contract recruiters and believe you when you talk about lies. I personally know two recruiters that got the axe for lying....and they did it for a long time before action was taken. Sexual harrassment....that seems par at Swift Academies. We had two instructors fired for sexual harrassment, and about 4 or 5 who were constantly badgering female students. My list can go on with the shortcomings of this ridiculous company...I know first hand because I was there in the trenches.

Two of our Road Range Supervisors flopped hard. One took a female student to his residence, the other had about 2 years of driving experience and thought he was Super Instructor. The first supervisor was constantly drunk, couldnt be found...I tracked him in a truck at the lake one time and told our outstanding Manager about it and nothing was done. The National Academies manager came to KC after all the instructors threatened to walk because of this supervisor and their punishment for his wrongdoings was to give him an American Express card so he could take instructors to lunch...yes you read that right, both managers knew of the many breaks in policy but were going to reward him. He quit and went back to San Antonio from where our next supervisor came from. What a &*&* joke this character was. He ended up getting fired from multiple counts of harassment, sexual and just being power hungry. How this guy got hired as an instructor in the first place is beyond me....well not really, with Swift's hiring and training practice I can understand.

We had a Supervisor with less than two years on the road and another instructor with less than two years. When the manager was asked about hiring criteria...oh I messed up. We had to wait to get our license from the state because the instructor did not meet the criteria of three years OTR experience. I have seen many people get the shaft by this company and hate that someone trying to break into this industry has to encounter Swift. As I have said in previous posts about Swift, do your time and move on, there is a whole hell of a lot better companies out there.

I have to update my statement in regard to the Swift Trucking acadamy
Fraud.

It is one thing for a trucking company to sexually harass and psychologically torment their students; However, it is yet another thing when the United States Government in Washington does nothing when doctors are on the payroll of these company's and are giving away DOT health Certificates. Even when officials are told exactly what happened and where it happened they choose to look away. I can,t see to drive a rig and yet I have a valid DOT health certificate.
I faxed a total of five DOT departments, from the top man in Washington, Dettlebach, to the SMCSA, in Boisy, Idaho, to my congressman, Pedro Nava, in California, who just happens to be the top DOT in California.
Not a word, oh yes, I did get an e-mail from Dettlebach's office saying they would do something. I am waiting to hear!
Folks, watch out on the road, It seems every time I go out on the freeway I see a bigrig stretched out across the freeway or in a d**e what's up?
The driving acadamy's are not doing their job!

I have to update my statement in regard to the Swift Trucking acadamy
Fraud.

It is one thing for a trucking company to sexually harass and psychologically torment their students; However, it is yet another thing when the United States Government in Washington does nothing when doctors are on the payroll of these company's and are giving away DOT health Certificates. Even when officials are told exactly what happened and where it happened they choose to look away. I can,t see to drive a rig and yet I have a valid DOT health certificate.
I faxed a total of five DOT departments, from the top man in Washington, Dettlebach, to the SMCSA, in Boisy, Idaho, to my congressman, Pedro Nava, in California, who just happens to be the top DOT in California.
Not a word, oh yes, I did get an e-mail from Dettlebach's office saying they would do something. I am waiting to hear!
Folks, watch out on the road, It seems every time I go out on the freeway I see a bigrig stretched out across the freeway or in a d**e what's up?
The driving acadamy's are not doing their job!