Swift's pay

[Mark01GT]

Swift is the largest company in america, but their pay is horrible. Why? You'd think a company as big as they are, they'd be able to afford to pay their drivers. Why do drivers stay there?

Pulled from their website:

"Example 1
• Dry van – Western U.S.
• Single driver
• One year of experience
• 2,100 miles driven per week
• Annual pay – approximately $41,112"

Only 41k to go over the road and never see your home? I'm with a local company here in FL, I am home everyday, and I get sunday's off and I'm making 45k a year. Why take a paycut to go over the road and be home less?

What are people doing driving for Swift? I don't get it.

[Fredog]

Swift is the largest company in america, but their pay is horrible. Why? You'd think a company as big as they are, they'd be able to afford to pay their drivers. Why do drivers stay there?

Pulled from their website:

"Example 1
• Dry van – Western U.S.
• Single driver
• One year of experience
• 2,100 miles driven per week
• Annual pay – approximately $41,112"

Only 41k to go over the road and never see your home? I'm with a local company here in FL, I am home everyday, and I get sunday's off and I'm making 45k a year. Why take a paycut to go over the road and be home less?

What are people doing driving for Swift? I don't get it.

because they can go from never having seen a truck to being a super trucker in only a few short weeks.

[Mark01GT]

What do you mean a super trucker?

Im running local and I went right out of school into my company, and I've now got 330,000 miles of experience in just under 3 years. Am I a super trucker too?

[Fredog]

What do you mean a super trucker?

Im running local and I went right out of school into my company, and I've now got 330,000 miles of experience in just under 3 years. Am I a super trucker too?

you sound more like a hard worker to me, over 100,000 miles a year running local? you must not go home much

[Mark01GT]

Yeah. I run approx 2500-300 miles a week. 12 hrs a day 6 days a week. But I'm home everyday and I have sunday off.


Definitly a hard worker - but if you went over the road you'd be gone weeks at a time, even harder of a worker! And swift doesn't even wanna pay you for it! I'm just shocked at how low their pay is!

[Phantom433a]

Swift is the largest company in america, but their pay is horrible. Why? You'd think a company as big as they are, they'd be able to afford to pay their drivers. Why do drivers stay there?

Pulled from their website:

"Example 1
• Dry van – Western U.S.
• Single driver
• One year of experience
• 2,100 miles driven per week
• Annual pay – approximately $41,112"

Only 41k to go over the road and never see your home? I'm with a local company here in FL, I am home everyday, and I get sunday's off and I'm making 45k a year. Why take a paycut to go over the road and be home less?

What are people doing driving for Swift? I don't get it.

because they can go from never having seen a truck to being a super trucker in only a few short weeks.

I think Fredog is saying that they can get right out of school and just start making big money in a big truck and within 6 months they can be a driver trainer :shock:

Actually its simple why Swift dosen't pay diddly, even though they are a big company......thats how they got big, by NOT paying diddly. The less money going out the door means they can buy more trucks/trailers and companies.

[boneebone]

Swift is the largest company in america, but their pay is horrible. Why? You'd think a company as big as they are, they'd be able to afford to pay their drivers. Why do drivers stay there?

Pulled from their website:

"Example 1
• Dry van – Western U.S.
• Single driver
• One year of experience
• 2,100 miles driven per week
• Annual pay – approximately $41,112"

Only 41k to go over the road and never see your home? I'm with a local company here in FL, I am home everyday, and I get sunday's off and I'm making 45k a year. Why take a paycut to go over the road and be home less?

What are people doing driving for Swift? I don't get it.

To each their own.

What ever blows your skirt up

Different strokes for different folks

That's like asking why do people do drugs? Why do people get married?
Why do people become alcoholics? etc. etc.

The answer is because they feel like it.

[Fredog]

Swift is the largest company in america, but their pay is horrible. Why? You'd think a company as big as they are, they'd be able to afford to pay their drivers. Why do drivers stay there?

Pulled from their website:

"Example 1
• Dry van – Western U.S.
• Single driver
• One year of experience
• 2,100 miles driven per week
• Annual pay – approximately $41,112"

Only 41k to go over the road and never see your home? I'm with a local company here in FL, I am home everyday, and I get sunday's off and I'm making 45k a year. Why take a paycut to go over the road and be home less?

What are people doing driving for Swift? I don't get it.

because they can go from never having seen a truck to being a super trucker in only a few short weeks.

I think Fredog is saying that they can get right out of school and just start making big money in a big truck and within 6 months they can be a driver trainer :shock:

Actually its simple why Swift dosen't pay diddly, even though they are a big company......thats how they got big, by NOT paying diddly. The less money going out the door means they can buy more trucks/trailers and companies.

close, I am saying that its one place that you can get hired on with no experience. and get "free" training, some guys dont have many options.

[Jumbo]

I agree Fredog. There are some guys who have never been inside a truck and who are doing some menial job somewhere and one day while going through the paper they see an ad that promises to pay them two or three times what they are making now, and they don't need anyexperience because XYZ trucking company will train them for free. That has got to be tempting.

[Uturn2001]

Swift aside, most training companies pay pretty close to the same starting out for the same type of work. The few that do pay higher tend to have stricter hiring requirements.

As far as "why do people go OTR for XXXX amount of money", the answer is often that the job market sucks where they live. In many areas a person would need to work 2 full time jobs, at least, to make what they could driving a truck OTR at newbie pay. This of course is assuming they could find 2 full time jobs to begin with.

Regardless if you are doing OTR or working 80 hours plus a week in some local capacity your home life is going to suffer.

[omapilot]

That is a good point, most of the training carriers are about the same. Unfortunately some of us need training! In the aviation world, the starting pay at regional carriers is pretty low. I mean very low! The problem is that you have to invest 60k in training funds just to land that job. Most first year regional pilots can barely afford to pay back the loan for training, much less survive. But, just like in aviation the future becomes brighter after you suffer through the initial hire period. It seems like many people do pretty well financially in trucking and have jobs they really enjoy. But, you do have to start somewhere in order to qualify for those jobs!

[fireman932003]

Look at Werner's pay. Makes Swift's pay look good.

[Double R]

Yeah. I run approx 2500-300 miles a week. 12 hrs a day 6 days a week. But I'm home everyday and I have sunday off.


Definitly a hard worker - but if you went over the road you'd be gone weeks at a time, even harder of a worker! And swift doesn't even wanna pay you for it! I'm just shocked at how low their pay is!

I see that you have no problems breaking DOT rules since you can only work 70 HOURS before you have to take Reset.

6x12=72 hours

[ghost_ryder]

Swift is the largest company in america, but their pay is horrible. Why? You'd think a company as big as they are, they'd be able to afford to pay their drivers. Why do drivers stay there?

Pulled from their website:

"Example 1
• Dry van – Western U.S.
• Single driver
• One year of experience
• 2,100 miles driven per week
• Annual pay – approximately $41,112"

Only 41k to go over the road and never see your home? I'm with a local company here in FL, I am home everyday, and I get sunday's off and I'm making 45k a year. Why take a paycut to go over the road and be home less?

What are people doing driving for Swift? I don't get it.

Many are not able to land a local job in most areas without at least 2 years experience. It took a major hurricane in my area to allow me to jump on local jobs. I was able to pretty much pick what I wanted after only driving OTR for a little over 6 months. Swift is a good place for students to start out and get their experience. Its not a place to go and make alot of money, its a learning place or a paid school. Also, since Swift is so big, there are many opportunities and different opportunities for several drivers. Also it makes it much easier to get hired on and started right away. So a driver may prefer to make less money if he has a nice dedicated route. Money although is important, its not always everything in a job.

[Ian Williams]

I see that you have no problems breaking DOT rules since you can only work 70 HOURS before you have to take Reset.

6x12=72 hours

You can only DRIVE up until your 70th hr. You can work as many hours and you care to. You Just can't drive again until you have 34hrs off or until you recover hrs from 8 days ago.

The last 2 hrs on the sixth day could be spend on line 4.

[Uturn2001]

I just love that this "You have to have a reset" bit is still going around after several years since the reset was put into the HOS.

[Mark01GT]

Yeah. I run approx 2500-300 miles a week. 12 hrs a day 6 days a week. But I'm home everyday and I have sunday off.


Definitly a hard worker - but if you went over the road you'd be gone weeks at a time, even harder of a worker! And swift doesn't even wanna pay you for it! I'm just shocked at how low their pay is!

I see that you have no problems breaking DOT rules since you can only work 70 HOURS before you have to take Reset.

6x12=72 hours

Maybe you should do some RESEARCH before posting. In the state of florida , you can run 80 hours as long as you do INTRASTATE driving. Once you go out of state your under federal law which is 70 hours... but I stay within the state so it's perfectly legal.

And before you can say "oh i didn't know you was only staying within the state!!!" I clearly posted at the beginning that i'm a LOCAL driver. We're allowed to work up to 80 hours.

Dumbass

[Ridge Runner]

Yeah. I run approx 2500-300 miles a week. 12 hrs a day 6 days a week. But I'm home everyday and I have sunday off.


Definitly a hard worker - but if you went over the road you'd be gone weeks at a time, even harder of a worker! And swift doesn't even wanna pay you for it! I'm just shocked at how low their pay is!

I see that you have no problems breaking DOT rules since you can only work 70 HOURS before you have to take Reset.

6x12=72 hours

Maybe you should do some RESEARCH before posting. In the state of florida , you can run 80 hours as long as you do INTRASTATE driving. Once you go out of state your under federal law which is 70 hours... but I stay within the state so it's perfectly legal.

And before you can say "oh i didn't know you was only staying within the state!!!" I clearly posted at the beginning that i'm a LOCAL driver. We're allowed to work up to 80 hours.

Dumbass

Just when did state law over-rule fedreal law? If your driving a CMV you run under federal HOS rules.

[Double R]

Yeah. I run approx 2500-300 miles a week. 12 hrs a day 6 days a week. But I'm home everyday and I have sunday off.


Definitly a hard worker - but if you went over the road you'd be gone weeks at a time, even harder of a worker! And swift doesn't even wanna pay you for it! I'm just shocked at how low their pay is!

I see that you have no problems breaking DOT rules since you can only work 70 HOURS before you have to take Reset.

6x12=72 hours

Maybe you should do some RESEARCH before posting. In the state of florida , you can run 80 hours as long as you do INTRASTATE driving. Once you go out of state your under federal law which is 70 hours... but I stay within the state so it's perfectly legal.

And before you can say "oh i didn't know you was only staying within the state!!!" I clearly posted at the beginning that i'm a LOCAL driver. We're allowed to work up to 80 hours.

Dumbass

MAYBE YOU SHOULD SHOW ME WHERE IN YOUR POST THAT YOU SAID THAT YOU LIVE IN FLORDIA!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM NOT A MIND READER(or in your case a MINDLESS reader).

Dumbass

Thanks for the personal attack MOR-ON!

[Karnajj]

Yeah. I run approx 2500-300 miles a week. 12 hrs a day 6 days a week. But I'm home everyday and I have sunday off.


Definitly a hard worker - but if you went over the road you'd be gone weeks at a time, even harder of a worker! And swift doesn't even wanna pay you for it! I'm just shocked at how low their pay is!

I see that you have no problems breaking DOT rules since you can only work 70 HOURS before you have to take Reset.

6x12=72 hours

Maybe you should do some RESEARCH before posting. In the state of florida , you can run 80 hours as long as you do INTRASTATE driving. Once you go out of state your under federal law which is 70 hours... but I stay within the state so it's perfectly legal.

And before you can say "oh i didn't know you was only staying within the state!!!" I clearly posted at the beginning that i'm a LOCAL driver. We're allowed to work up to 80 hours.

Dumbass

MAYBE YOU SHOULD SHOW ME WHERE IN YOUR POST THAT YOU SAID THAT YOU LIVE IN FLORDIA!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM NOT A MIND READER(or in your case a MINDLESS reader).

Dumbass

Thanks for the personal attack MOR-ON!

Um, well, he says so in his first post. Perhaps you don't know that Fl is the abbreviation for Florida?