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Complaint / Review
Swift Transportation
Missing items on paycheck, payroll is useless, driver manager is careless

Hi, I was out of the Edwardsville, KS terminal and started driving for Swift Transportation in the fall of 2005. I constantly qualcomm my driver manager about payroll problems. A trip that starts with S that paid in April for unload pay, I got $30 instead of $80 for unloading the whole truck at 2 different stops one in Birmingham, AL and another one in Lebanon, TN of kitchen appliances.

DM says let me check and see if you would get paid for that. Nothing yet and here it is October. A trip # in May that begins with s988??? Dispatched at 820 am and It had a 700 am appointment to get loaded. It was a beer load at Anheiseiur Busch in Ft Collins, CO. Didnt get paid layover and was there from 948 am till 515 pm that day saying there was a problem with that load.

The shipper gave me an 800 # to check up on every hr. That load was headed to Iowa City, IA. They didnt pay me unload pay for unloading a load of tires in Tucson, AZ. I sent macro 40 and it says not flagged for load/unload pay, contact dmgr to contact csr. That was last August. Hot there too. They never paid me 38 hours detention pay when I was stuck at their Columbus, OH terminal after delivering pasta to their Big Lots distribution center in the same city.

In addition to that I got 1 preventable on their wrong macro 23 directions. I made a right turn and got trailer stuck in a ditch and it required 2 tow trucks to remove. Was to pick up a load at Columbian Chemical in Ulysses, KS and take that to Jamestown, ND. Guess what! I wasnt supposed to make a right on county rd 8 and a left on road F.

Then on top of that their low pay attracts homeless bums. Their trucks are filthy. I have had my CDL since 1991 and started out with Roehl then went to Harold Ives (now covenant) and was there till Covenant finalized every thing and I got out and tried JB Hunt, they are slow between new years and mid february. BAD! So went to Wynne after getting sick and tired of working for Wynne for 8 years on tankers with oil and chemicals I went to swift last year.

Never have I picked up so much junk trailers until Swift. Rusted wheel nuts. Now I heard of tandems coming off swift trailer and killing 2 people in a car 2 months ago. I dont know where!

The trailers have electrical issues. I got pulled over more with swift for problems with the trailer such as lights on back not working. No license plate on trailer, low air lines under trailer and was stopped becaise my trailer was making all that raquet when a South Dakota highway patrol officer was on my side door while enroute to Des Plaines, IL from Butte, MT with a load of bearings and got wrote up for multiple violations on their M.S. Carriers trailer made in 1995 my company had to fix and get back to them in 15 days and the violaitions was rusted wheels on trailer, inner tandem tire on 4th axle was showing metal, 5th wheel was kinda loose and even worse a mud flap was about to fall off trailer.

Their speed policy is a joke. Go over 70 and risk getting fired. Harold Ives ran faster than that without penalty from the company. Swift equals junk trailers, mysterious hometime, payroll problems and getting pulled into the DOT weigh station for inspection because a majority of Swift drivers have had violations. SWIFT sucks. Im now a driver for Metro Xpress in Wichita, KS though this company is hard to get into because 5 days out 2 home.


Offender: Swift Transportation

Country: USA   State: Arizona   City: PHOENIX
Address: 2200 S 75TH ST
Phone: 8008002200

Category: Cars & Transport

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