Every company has bad and stupid drivers, as mentioned above, it’s the size of the company that makes the percentage of accidents look so bad, trouble with Swift’s is that decent drivers do not want to work for a company that has such a bad reputation, they pay disgustingly low wages for a start and they have to employ in experienced young drivers, they do not train them properly and then send them out on the road driving a 72 ft long 40 ton truck, these kids have no idea what they are doing most of the time and it attracts bad publicity, even more so when we see things on the back of every trailer telling us how they employ only the safest drivers ‘Award winning’ as the signs say. Swift’s do have some very good and highly experienced guy’s but we rarely see them, I have lost count of the times I have had to take evasive action to avoid being wiped out by their young idiots. It’s because the company is so huge that we see so many of their trucks in accidents.
I recall crossing the Susquehanna river on route 30 near Lancaster one day and having a Swift truck overtaking me and it had a guy sleeping in the passenger seat, the driver moved over on me and forced me to stand on the brakes to avoid being pushed over the side and into the river, seeing the number for comments on the back I actually called the company to complain and was told that it was because the driver was new and was being trained, so please excuse the incident, I asked if the trainer was the guy sleeping ?
