Swift doing all they can to uphold their reputation!!!
#21
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Swift can post any policy they want but it doesnt matter when some nitwit dispatcher sends the route via qualcomm to the driver who has never ridden that road.
I'd say the driver is also a motorcyclist.... He handled the corners pretty damn good and didnt hit anyone and slowed down for oncoming traffic.
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#22
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Too funny...I was LMAO during the orange cone massacre.
Must of been a high-milage day -- hey?! Did you see at the very end the number of vehicles that were following him?! Bet they were happy! :evil:
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#23
Originally Posted by BigWheels
Too funny...I was LMAO during the orange cone massacre.
Must of been a high-milage day -- hey?! Did you see at the very end the number of vehicles that were following him?! Bet they were happy! :evil: How many points would that have been on a CDL test?' :P
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#24
Originally Posted by inmate1577
Swift can post any policy they want but it doesnt matter when some nitwit dispatcher sends the route via qualcomm to the driver who has never ridden that road.
I'd say the driver is also a motorcyclist.... He handled the corners pretty damn good and didnt hit anyone and slowed down for oncoming traffic.
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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This is a new chapter to an old story.
It's no coincidence that the biker/cinematographer was there and ready to shoot. Locals have complained about and to every company they find on that route. There are a ton of videos on youtube and elsewhere to back that up Swift, to it's credit, has responded by deleting any reference to the Dragon from their routing and declared it "off limits". This is a situation where the Driver chose to ignore the routing. To those who think he did a pretty good job, given the circumstances, you're wrong. He should have stopped the truck before he hit the first cone, called THP and let them prescribe the appropriate course of action.
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I ran into a road like that in West Virginia at 2 a.m. The trees were so thick that it was completely pitch black out there. There was no cell phone reception or a QualComm signal. I was still a new jack driver at the time, and I'm not gonna lie.... I was absofreakinlutely scurrrrrred!
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LOL
Do you remember which road it was?
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#30
Originally Posted by chubyboy
cones notwithstanding, he did a good job. speaking of the cone scene, that reminds me of the first week of driving on the course at school...that was hilarious (at school)
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