On September 22, the Fleet Manager sent me on a dispatch to my home town to take another driver to recover an abanded truck and trailer. The truck was located at a local Semi repair facility with a trailer lot.
Since I was a new driver, I asked the fleet manager about this facility since I was going to need a place to park my trailer.
I told me that it was ok to park my trailer in there lot if I had there permission (which I did) as long as it was not a High Value Load.
I had been doing this since he told me this, well on Dec 31 I had picked up a load of paper from the local mill, parked the trailer on this lot I had permission to use from the owner and fleet manager. Later that night I get a call from the Phoenix office that I had parked a loaded trailer in a non authorized lot and needed to reconnect my tractor to the trailer, which I did.
Well on Jan 3rd I received instructions to deadhead to the Richmond Terminal.
On Jan 4th I meet with my DM who told me why I was there because of the trailer deal. I explained to him what I had been told.
Then I have to talk to the Fleet Manager which is the one that said I could. After I remind him of what he had told me, he said he had never heard of this place and informed me I was fired for dropping a loaded trailer in a non authorized location.
He is the same person who said I could and even dispatched me to this place back on Sept.
They lie to the drivers. Pay close attention, Swift has a very high turn over in employees. I wonder why?
Then after all this, they tried to rip me off of my last Deadhead miles and not pay me for them.
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