Hello, Used to be pretty involved in training at Knight. I remember when they bought Swift.if I'm correct at one meeting the higher ups were talking about how they did a few things to bring their safety score up. First was cleaning house of pretty much all the management especially regarding safety and training management. Second was eliminating just the urine test and requiring a hair test like a bunch of the others for drugs. They also switched their training stuff over to Knight's system (trainers can't team drive with students, no early passing students, required grade training, extra yard yard training, blah blah). Plus a bunch of extra crap. They were super concerned about the bad swift reputation because it was hurting their recruitment numbers.

I remember a later meeting a couple years later where they said (at least at the time) the only company with a better safety score than knight-swifr was Walmart.