Swift Transportation
Wrongful termination

Beverly271
09-15-2008
19

Hello My name is Beverly and I started with Swift Transportation on July and was Terminated in March for have log violations but it turned out I did not have any so I was reinstated 3 hrs later in May I was terminated again this time for Driver failures when asked to know the dates of these failures I was not given the answers to that question I turned the truck into Fontana Ca and went home.
After repeated phone called to Swift I still did not get any answers just what my driver manager told me I had driver failures and that I had 9 I went from 3 to 9 to 24 then back down to 14 to 9 all in a period of 1 week I ended up with 9 this I was told by safety. I came home and filed for EDD and I get a letter in the mail Swift is going to appeal my Unemployment so about 2 weeks I finally see where my driver failures are date place and reason. When checking with my records I see that there is a reason for each one I was either in shop status, load sent late to me running lates for weather, shut down in traffic due to accident, My termination cause one of them because when I was reinstated they did not issue my another comdata card my old one was voided out that took 2 hours to fix. Another I got hit at a stoplight and with the police report waiting for the police to come and decide where we stood that took 4 hours did 2 running lates on that one but what was forgotten Swift did not notify customer that I was going to be late.

I feel that I was wrongfully fired for this and I feel that I was being harrassed by my driver manager I have spoken to a lawyer about this I know there are other drivers from Swift that have been wrongfully fired from Swift and I feel that something should be done about this. I am waiting for my DAC report to come to see what they have put on it and why it is so hard for me to find another driving job Not all companies use the driver failures some have never heard of it. I hope someone here in the legal area of this site will go through and see what others have wrote about this company and help us all do something so this company does not keep doing this to drivers I was also told that the person who either sent my load to me late would also face the same thing termination but the funny thig is they are still there and I am not