12.14.07
Swift Transportation
Sometimes you might have some horrible experience you want to forget about. But you just keep on recalling it all the time. The best way out is to put it in writing. And if there was some fraudulent company involved, you may do other people a lot of good and warn them about the danger to be cheated by the same company. Just like in case with Swift Transportation. People posted their comments and helped many others to avoid dealing with the company.
Introduction. Some words about the company for you to know what it is all about. Swift Transportation was founded by Jerry Moyes in 1966 as Common Market. At the present time the company is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. In the beginning of its existence, the company transported steel and cotton. And already in 1990 Swift Transportation had 800 trucks on roads. Nowadays, the company owes 16,000 trucks and its revenue totals to $ 2,5 million a year. The company is also represented in Mexico. Swift Transportation operates Trans-Mex – a carrier that is based in Mexico. Besides, there is a special Swift Transportation Academy where people are supposed to be taught to drive stick shift or some other kind of truck.
Swift complaints. The prevailing number of complaints against the Swift Transportation is posted by the insiders, Swift’s former workers. They say that the conditions of the work are very poor and the life of the OTR driver is really hard. And this is not compensated with any bonuses or competitive salary. Drivers state, that that amount of money they earned working for Swift Transportation is like equal to the tips of the pizza boy. Besides, there are a number of negative reviews about the Swift Transportation Academy. People say that the trainers are really impolite and they care about anything but how to teach you. And even if the trainer know that you have never drove stick shift before, he can make you drive it somewhere in the downtown. And those trainings are very expensive.