Looks Like Swift is Here to Play Yet Another Day
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10-23-2009, 11:06 AM
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#3
10-23-2009, 11:23 AM
Now that's funny right there!!!!!!:smokin: :lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2:
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#4
10-23-2009, 04:01 PM
Crap, you beat me to it... Either way, I'm glad to see that Swift is takin' a turn in the right direction, even though they're direct competition to us in the mega-carrier market.
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#5
10-23-2009, 07:18 PM
<quote>Swift is the parent of Swift Transportation, the second-largest privately owned U.S. truckload carrier</quote>
I remember them being the largest, who passed them up? us xpress?
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#6
10-24-2009, 01:13 AM
I guess all of that cheap freight finally caught up with them, those .50 back hauls can really put a hurting on an outfit. And it probably doesn't help the fact that they must spend a ton of money on driver recruiting and training, what is their turnover rate, 134%?
#7
10-24-2009, 02:57 AM
"But you could make 50% more working somewhere else for the same amount of work..."- blah blah blah. Yeah...probably true...but that time will come. My first benchmark is 13 months, after that, who knows what i'll do. But why would i want to jump ship, to work for an outfit where i COULD make .50-60 cpm, but have 2-3x more worry if that company will even be around in a month or two? staying with a company with a solid economic outlook when compared to Jim Palmers, or OnLine or other no-name companies...makes good sense to me.
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#8
10-24-2009, 03:01 AM
Swift has a solid economic outlook?
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#9
10-24-2009, 04:25 AM
actually Jerry did/does. He likes having to pay less cpm to the newbie drivers who also have to pay for their CDL training. Good $$ practice, IF, your insurance and lawsuits don't eat up the $$ benefits.
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#10
10-24-2009, 08:06 AM
thats the key isn't it. Of course if you had over 6mos exp they started pushing driver training on you. I never went for it for one simple reason, they said it was training but ran you like a team. I could never abide that part, not to mention 6 mos. I was still green myself.
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