:lol: Personally...I thought the $550 to $1000 a week after taxes was a good one. :lol: The $550 I can buy....its just the $1000 a week after taxes....thats hard, really hard to buy into, especially for a solo driver who's only been at it 6 months or so.

Swift's sliding payscale shows a 9 month driver in the east at .48cpm....for a 25-99 mile run, down to .34cpm for a 300+ mile run (damn...they stole USX's ratty payscale!!) But for the sake of argument....lets just use the 48 cpm rate.

http://www.swifttruckingjobs.com/doc...ng%20Scale.pdf

In order to clear more than $1000.00 for a week the driver would have to drive well over 3000 miles in the 7 day period...or get paid for 3000 miles plus in one week. Yes, I know....if they are still paying based on when Suzie or Buffy waves her magic hand over the paperwork without breaking a fingernail or getting a papercut before the magic cutoff date....it might could happen...if they backed up more than a week or so of paperwork and the cash flow caught up and they could make full payroll....

I say BS :moon: to it! If Swift actually paid its drivers that well consistently...they wouldn't have the 100% turnover annually that they have.

Maybe somebody is "trolling" for recruiting bonuses????:moon:

 

i would'nt go barkin too loud, about the pay scale you just described, when superior is .41 loaded and .34 empty. just in case somebody is not familiar superior.:moon:

 

Is there a CPM war going on?

 

i dont really run cpm, i do alot of kmart and sears runs so i at least make 100 dollars a day, usually 150 to 350 a day, you guys might think im lying but im not, i run alot of flat rate stuff thats usually drop and hook, and my books usually arent 100 percent. like tomarrow i have a 2 stop kmart run, so thats 150 and ill either run more after that or my dm will give me another for the next day and i can go home

 

So with a 100% turnover annually, that means Swift is hiring 19,000 new drivers every year to replace their whole fleet?

I don't think so, your numbers are way off.

 

yea im with bone, im thinkin 100 percent is also alitttle extreme!

 

how long have u been with them, just give it some time.

 

Actually, my roommate during orientation was clearning $1000 a week. Granted, he had some previous experience (Swift dont care, they still start you out like a newbie driver) and he was clearning $1000 a week. (actually like $950+ but whos counting) He was running a Dollar Tree Dedicated account out of Oklahoma. Would get paid $100 to unload his own trailer, $20 per stop and the mileage. Most runs were usually around 300mi and had 3-4 stops on average. So just PER DAY, he was making $200-250, for working just 6 days, thats $1200-1500 before taxes. throw in another 200-250 if he worked all 7 days.

That was one of the big reasons why I was always in my DMs ear to get me on a flippin dedicated/regional. I've heard a few stories of screw-up swift drivers, who dont know how to audit their own logbook, not to mention how to keep their 7-day recap up to date (one 1st month driver would work 7 days, then zero out his recap to get a fresh 70...and he was rewarded with a log class then got a t!ts DC run making $800+ a week.)

as much as you dont want to believe it, there are runs out there where Swifty solo drivers pull in $1000 a week....ive seen the pay stubs. They are rare, but i know of atleast 3.

 

3 out of 19,000 drivers

hmm - so, 0.015% of the drivers at Swift - nice average...

 

the walmart dedicated out of casa grande, az is the f'in shizzle. during my temporary time doing that, i had cleared $1000 every week for the three i was doing it. i was a substitute for a driver who had some serious family issues at home. my name was on the waiting list to become a permanent member of the frozen-dairy wally world account. too bad that the list was, at the time, 2 years long, and there wasn't any guarantee that i'd get the okay to go dedicated. if i could have pulled it off, i'd have still been at swift.