SWIFT

Crawdaddy, just to give you some perspective on this, I started my trucking career at Western Express, and grossed close to fifty thousand dollars my rookie year. It wasn't long after that when I started getting letters from a group of attorneys trying to get me to join a class action law suit which accused the company of not allowing their drivers to earn minimum wage!

Usually a suit of this nature is more an indictment of the level of competency of the new drivers in the company than it is of the company itself. That is why these kind of things shouldn't even play into your decision making process when choosing a company to start with.

It is, as others have stated, a money grab for the attorneys, but there are so many low performing drivers out there that the attorneys can come up with all kinds of evidence that seems cinvincingly damaging to an ill educated jury.

Thanks everyone for clearing this up! I was definitely worried about dealing with a company that would be going through a lawsuit whether it was swift, schneider, or whoever.

This class action is over ten years old, though it hasn't come to trial yet. The question was/is what determines dispatch miles?

Alright thanks. The page said that it was a day ago so that's what I went off of.

Yes, that's right. The complaint was approved to be a class action finally.

BTW the only real winners in this class action will be the lawyers and the lead plaintiffs.

I don't know the specifics, but if it goes to court, and a precedent is set, we might see an end to bull**** mileage pay based around post office addresses. I just did a Galveston TX to Memphis, TN run and will be paid for about 600 miles, even though actual mileage was nearly 750.

Matthew, Were you promised Hub Miles when you signed your Contract? I doubt it. That statement reminds me of School Teachers griping about low pay. They knew what the pay was when they spent $100,000.00 for a 4 year College Degree. I came into this business with my eyes WIDE OPEN, and made the decision to pursue a Trucking Career. I will earn more than most First Year school teachers , and I don't have a $100,000 student loan to pay off!

I will earn more than most First Year school teachers ...

But you will be working way more than 40 hrs per week and you won't have summers off, so not really the best comparison. Hour per hour, the teacher makes more ... Trucking has other benefits for some, for sure, though.

Paul is about to be disabused:

You won't have summers off {like teachers do}

Hour per hour, the teacher makes more.

I'll try to restrain myself here.

Classroom is generally 6 hours per day. Then there's lesson preparation, faculty meetings and of course, reading and grading maybe 120 student papers.

In the summer teachers get maybe 3 weeks "off". Then there's classes to take, more meetings, though not every day, but too often to get out of town any more.

Errol is is just being dramatic:

Paul is about to be disabused:

You won't have summers off {like teachers do}

Hour per hour, the teacher makes more.

I'll try to restrain myself here.

Classroom is generally 6 hours per day. Then there's lesson preparation, faculty meetings and of course, reading and grading maybe 120 student papers.

In the summer teachers get maybe 3 weeks "off". Then there's classes to take, more meetings, though not every day, but too often to get out of town any more.

The teacher goes home every day, has weekends off, more than three weeks in the summer, after a couple years experience spends a lot less time prepping, meetings aren't the much time in the scheme of things, if you're efficient, grading gets done during the day. I've been there. Teachers don't put in as many hours to make the same as a trucker.

OK, if you say so.

The advantage of driving a truck is that I don't have to be surrounded by hundreds of unruly brats every day all day. Just at Truck Stops!

The advantage of driving a truck is that I don't have to be surrounded by hundreds of unruly brats every day all day. Just at Truck Stops!

And Tractor Man wins that round.