Swift Transportation reviews about "benefit"

low salary and bad benefits

Not many cons , if you drive long you get miles.

Not much home time busy otr schedules

Pay! Will not make much unless you have many, many years of experience. OTR is a non money maker, dedicated or regional work is best to make a decent check. 34 hour resets for dedicated or regional jobs. OTR hometime sucks and they monitor how much you come home and how long you stay home. Load dispatching can be bad depending where you are located at times.

No incentives for long-standing employees

Hours, management, training, and organization

This is not an exhaustive list of cons and questionable things I found at Swift. The company is wildly inconsistent. On all levels. For my training I expected to go OTR, but ended up training on a dedicated account. Still good, but you do miss a lot of OTR nuances. Planners and dispatch vary in quality depending on the terminal. Example: Jurupa Valley (CA) planners are better than Phoenix planners. Always issues with communication with the Phoenix team. Communication: you see a lot of confused folks running around at all company levels. And they openly state they are confused. In truck apps and software are confusing, especially at first. For loads, they use Pointe app that can be frustratingly slow at times. Loads info presented in a disorganized fashion and it is easy to miss the little details. They use and file Macros for everything. Absolutely everything. Every time you back, you send a macro, the Get Out And Look macro. The pay. Peanuts. When starting, you will likely be doing OTR and your paycheck will not exceed $1,000/week. Equipment: dry vans are disaster. Mostly rusty and difficult to handle. I don't know how they are still "in compliance" and are out on the road. The situation with reefers is a little better.

Not much pay, some dispatchers or office staff can be rude or dont address your concerns.

The pay was substandard and it was encouraged to pay as cheap as possible, which hindered long term employment for front line staff. The hours were long as well.