Slave labor is alive and well at Swift Transportation. I want to do all I can to discourage anybody from going to work for this company. I wish someone had warned me before I gave these people the time of day. I have learned the hard way and moved on to greener pastures. For starters, a new guy/gal ...
So you want to be a truck driver—silly you. First of all, in my case, I paid over $4,000 to attend what I thought was a reputable school only to find out the only school worth attending is a PTDIA CERTIFIED school if you want any kind of good paying job. To be hired right out of school you get to ...
I went through school at the ms swift school of b/s in sept. I went there because i knew someone who worked for ms and thought it was a good co to work for. The school was still concidered to be ms at the time but swift was calling the shots.By the time that i found out swift had bought out ms i ...
During my trucking school I was pre-hired by Swift. I was excited since I had waited for quite a number of years to persue a trucking career. After graduation I set up date for my orientation, gave them all the pre-hire information and told them that I had already been assigned a trainer. During ...
It, s to bad that you can't record a phone call while you drive. My driver manager told me that I needed to log 57 mph to make a delivery time. He insisted that I wouldn't get a ticket from Oregon or California however D.O.T. Personnel of these states disagree. He also said that I shouldn't log ...
I worked for Swift Transportation for nine months when I injured my back. They sent me to their doctors who suggested that I not drive OTR anymore and that I could drive local routes as long as I could get out of the truck often. When I approached Swift about this they told me that They could not ...