about swift trans....

[Skywalker]

Personally...I thought the $550 to $1000 a week after taxes was a good one. The $550 I can buy....its just the $1000 a week after taxes....thats hard, really hard to buy into, especially for a solo driver who's only been at it 6 months or so.

Swift's sliding payscale shows a 9 month driver in the east at .48cpm....for a 25-99 mile run, down to .34cpm for a 300+ mile run (damn...they stole USX's ratty payscale!!) But for the sake of argument....lets just use the 48 cpm rate.

http://www.swifttruckingjobs.com/doc...ng%20Scale.pdf

In order to clear more than $1000.00 for a week the driver would have to drive well over 3000 miles in the 7 day period...or get paid for 3000 miles plus in one week. Yes, I know....if they are still paying based on when Suzie or Buffy waves her magic hand over the paperwork without breaking a fingernail or getting a papercut before the magic cutoff date....it might could happen...if they backed up more than a week or so of paperwork and the cash flow caught up and they could make full payroll....

I say BS to it! If Swift actually paid its drivers that well consistently...they wouldn't have the 100% turnover annually that they have.

Maybe somebody is "trolling" for recruiting bonuses????

[1catfish]

Personally...I thought the $550 to $1000 a week after taxes was a good one. The $550 I can buy....its just the $1000 a week after taxes....thats hard, really hard to buy into, especially for a solo driver who's only been at it 6 months or so.

Swift's sliding payscale shows a 9 month driver in the east at .48cpm....for a 25-99 mile run, down to .34cpm for a 300+ mile run (damn...they stole USX's ratty payscale!!) But for the sake of argument....lets just use the 48 cpm rate.

http://www.swifttruckingjobs.com/doc...ng%20Scale.pdf

In order to clear more than $1000.00 for a week the driver would have to drive well over 3000 miles in the 7 day period...or get paid for 3000 miles plus in one week. Yes, I know....if they are still paying based on when Suzie or Buffy waves her magic hand over the paperwork without breaking a fingernail or getting a papercut before the magic cutoff date....it might could happen...if they backed up more than a week or so of paperwork and the cash flow caught up and they could make full payroll....

I say BS to it! If Swift actually paid its drivers that well consistently...they wouldn't have the 100% turnover annually that they have.

Maybe somebody is "trolling" for recruiting bonuses????

i would'nt go barkin too loud, about the pay scale you just described, when superior is .41 loaded and .34 empty. just in case somebody is not familiar superior.

[ronjon619]

Is there a CPM war going on?

[franwake13]

i dont really run cpm, i do alot of kmart and sears runs so i at least make 100 dollars a day, usually 150 to 350 a day, you guys might think im lying but im not, i run alot of flat rate stuff thats usually drop and hook, and my books usually arent 100 percent. like tomarrow i have a 2 stop kmart run, so thats 150 and ill either run more after that or my dm will give me another for the next day and i can go home

[boneebone]

Personally...I thought the $550 to $1000 a week after taxes was a good one. The $550 I can buy....its just the $1000 a week after taxes....thats hard, really hard to buy into, especially for a solo driver who's only been at it 6 months or so.

Swift's sliding payscale shows a 9 month driver in the east at .48cpm....for a 25-99 mile run, down to .34cpm for a 300+ mile run (damn...they stole USX's ratty payscale!!) But for the sake of argument....lets just use the 48 cpm rate.

http://www.swifttruckingjobs.com/doc...ng%20Scale.pdf

In order to clear more than $1000.00 for a week the driver would have to drive well over 3000 miles in the 7 day period...or get paid for 3000 miles plus in one week. Yes, I know....if they are still paying based on when Suzie or Buffy waves her magic hand over the paperwork without breaking a fingernail or getting a papercut before the magic cutoff date....it might could happen...if they backed up more than a week or so of paperwork and the cash flow caught up and they could make full payroll....

I say BS to it! If Swift actually paid its drivers that well consistently...they wouldn't have the 100% turnover annually that they have.

Maybe somebody is "trolling" for recruiting bonuses????

So with a 100% turnover annually, that means Swift is hiring 19,000 new drivers every year to replace their whole fleet?

I don't think so, your numbers are way off.

[franwake13]

yea im with bone, im thinkin 100 percent is also alitttle extreme!

[court08]

how long have u been with them, just give it some time.

[Kevin0915]

Personally...I thought the $550 to $1000 a week after taxes was a good one. The $550 I can buy....its just the $1000 a week after taxes....thats hard, really hard to buy into, especially for a solo driver who's only been at it 6 months or so.

Actually, my roommate during orientation was clearning $1000 a week. Granted, he had some previous experience (Swift dont care, they still start you out like a newbie driver) and he was clearning $1000 a week. (actually like $950+ but whos counting) He was running a Dollar Tree Dedicated account out of Oklahoma. Would get paid $100 to unload his own trailer, $20 per stop and the mileage. Most runs were usually around 300mi and had 3-4 stops on average. So just PER DAY, he was making $200-250, for working just 6 days, thats $1200-1500 before taxes. throw in another 200-250 if he worked all 7 days.

That was one of the big reasons why I was always in my DMs ear to get me on a flippin dedicated/regional. I've heard a few stories of screw-up swift drivers, who dont know how to audit their own logbook, not to mention how to keep their 7-day recap up to date (one 1st month driver would work 7 days, then zero out his recap to get a fresh 70...and he was rewarded with a log class then got a t!ts DC run making $800+ a week.)

as much as you dont want to believe it, there are runs out there where Swifty solo drivers pull in $1000 a week....ive seen the pay stubs. They are rare, but i know of atleast 3.

[Malaki86]

3 out of 19,000 drivers

hmm - so, 0.015% of the drivers at Swift - nice average...

[Syncrosonix]

the walmart dedicated out of casa grande, az is the f'in shizzle. during my temporary time doing that, i had cleared $1000 every week for the three i was doing it. i was a substitute for a driver who had some serious family issues at home. my name was on the waiting list to become a permanent member of the frozen-dairy wally world account. too bad that the list was, at the time, 2 years long, and there wasn't any guarantee that i'd get the okay to go dedicated. if i could have pulled it off, i'd have still been at swift.

[mike3fan]

i would'nt go barkin too loud, about the pay scale you just described, when superior is .41 loaded and .34 empty. just in case somebody is not familiar superior.

You seriously aren't comparing Superior's payscale to that of Swift's are you?

[Snowman7]

Actually, my roommate during orientation was clearning $1000 a week. Granted, he had some previous experience (Swift dont care, they still start you out like a newbie driver) and he was clearning $1000 a week. (actually like $950+ but whos counting) He was running a Dollar Tree Dedicated account out of Oklahoma. Would get paid $100 to unload his own trailer, $20 per stop and the mileage. Most runs were usually around 300mi and had 3-4 stops on average. So just PER DAY, he was making $200-250, for working just 6 days, thats $1200-1500 before taxes. throw in another 200-250 if he worked all 7 days.

That was one of the big reasons why I was always in my DMs ear to get me on a flippin dedicated/regional. I've heard a few stories of screw-up swift drivers, who dont know how to audit their own logbook, not to mention how to keep their 7-day recap up to date (one 1st month driver would work 7 days, then zero out his recap to get a fresh 70...and he was rewarded with a log class then got a t!ts DC run making $800+ a week.)

as much as you dont want to believe it, there are runs out there where Swifty solo drivers pull in $1000 a week....ive seen the pay stubs. They are rare, but i know of atleast 3.

I believe it. There are some decent jobs if you know where to look. OTR, Regional, Local. You just have to find out where they are.

[jonp]

I worked for Swift for 3 years. I had some ups and downs with them but overall it was very good. Many weeks I made $1,000 although I never cleared that much. If I hadnt moved to a region where they just couldnt get me home I don't think I would still be there but I'd have put in several more years I'm sure.