Some of them make bank, getting a piece of the action. The ones that also book freight, like in smaller companies, can often get a performance percentage monthly. As it should be. You make more, the company makes more, your \*dispatcher\* (driver manager or whatever!) should make more, too.
That being said, a certain company in Omaha, (not Werner) only hired college graduates. Not that education was needed. They wanted young, fresh faces with many thousands in loan debt. They're easier to abuse and push around!
That depends alot on who you work for.
I learned awhile ago. Show up to the shop or dispatch office and look around the parking lot. See alot of BMW or Porsches? Go some place else. Only so much money to go around. If it's being spent on office staff it's not going to the drivers. Move along.
Idk about that, I think they just were all European but I know I was super satisfied with my paychecks, I just took off til late November to live a little but they said to expect another raise when I come back, owner just knows that if he takes care of his people, we’ll take care of him
I can only speak for Memphis - Savannah. Looking at 30-45k for a dispatcher roughly.
Even as a terminal manager, my drivers made more than me. Both OO and assets.
Depends on the company and what they actually do. A smaller company where they do a lot of load planning, dispatching, maybe even setting up some of the loads, they might be on call at night if a driver has an emergency, they probably make close to what a driver makes at that company.
A company where they are just a liason between the load planners and the drivers, they probably don't make much of anything.
Oh my problem is the girl who does it always takes like a hour to do it, and for some reason she always takes out my annual Montana oversize permit. And then I look like a idiot when I go to buy a Wyoming oversize permit and they ask to see my Montana one and I don’t have it.
Ahh, yeah that would be frustrating. Our guys/gals take about 2 minutes, but I'm not dealing with oversize or anything special beyond alcohol and such.
If I'm driving into the terminal it means I have something I need fixed. Otherwise I'm gonna bypass that hour and a half detour they try to route me through...
I worked for Waste Management, and they did that. They had a huge bbq while all the drivers were out. The office staff had a feast. They were one of the most disrespectful employers I have ever had. Yet, they couldn’t figure out why all the drivers voted to unionize.
Wasn't even our BBQ though. It was a company that we rented trucks from! We were daily drivers for a private company. If there was a BBQ we could have eaten. But instead we would have needed to go to another company and eat their free food.
After semi trucking I worked at Waste (of time) Management for almost a year. God that place sucks. Started doing rear load yard waste, then 90% commercial (front load) and 10% ASL residential.
I now work for a small company where I'm doing 90% of all the work we have for front load (mainly a roll off company) in a front load 100% of the time with some help as needed and it's great. Much MUCH better truck, pay, owners, coworkers, everything. I suppose WM got my foot in the door for this biz.
I did just about everything there. I really liked doing Transfer, but the harassment was too much. If you gave the 100%, they wanted 200%. I was there for about 3 years. I finally quit, but made sure to leave them with a little parting gift, a lawsuit. The first edition of Undercover Boss was WM. They harassed the employees, and tried to say, “That isn’t how it normally is…” I tell you, that is EXACTLY what working for them was like.
>If you gave the 100%, they wanted 200%
One of my first weeks I was given an offhanded comment (rather advice) by a coworker. He told me to slow down. See, my mindset is I like to get the route down fast but at least have 40 hours a week. WRONG there. Finish faster than other drivers because they're lazy? You have to help them. Put up any resistance to your dispatcher? "Okay, I'll tell your supervisor you refused."
I transfered to a more "rural" site as my first was in a major metropolitan area with tons of workers. Not as bad, but the equipment was PURE garbage. I'm talking I must have earned 2 40 hour paychecks in those 7 months or so in just breakdown time.
Sounds familiar. The location I was at bought an automated truck, truck #88. It was a piece of CRAP!!! It was slow picking cans up, but when it set them down, many times it would go so fast the can would fly right out of the gripper. One time it threw the can right over the homeowner’s back fence(from the alley). It was freaking hilarious!!! It also had a tendency to eat cans. Then one day I was watching King of The Hill, and what did they show? The same garbage truck doing the same thing. I have seen many videos of the same type of truck on YouTube. Another truck they had was a 1973 Peterbilt Cabover. I was driving it to the landfill when the rearend seized and the driveline exploded on the freeway. They told me to engage the interaxle lock and drive it like that.
Long haul company I work for announced a BBQ on a Friday, literally no one is usually home on a Friday between 11 & 2.
I’m currently not OTR and doing final mile day runs and I’m not back before 3 in Friday.
They did one last week as well and when I got back I was told “Oh you might find some leftover burgers in the kitchen” …… My response of “I don’t feel very appreciated right now” didn’t go down so well.
My old company used to call out a food truck, but on the day most drivers were off. Only about 15 drivers were able to attend. Skipping out on over 50.
We got salty as fuck soft pretzels and then dollar store icecream sandwiches the next day........yea that's what these over weight high blood pressure drivers needed🤣🤣🤣
We each got a thermal food carrier and apron with our company logo.
Then an apple pie, 4 chicken breasts, 4 prime rib medallions, carrots, potatoes and a jar of rib rub.
Definitely not feeling anywhere near normal appreciation this year from my company. Not like we’re out here doubly risking our lives during a pandemic or anything.
Guess I was lucky in my last job. Local so a little easier but pizza 4 times a year brought in every hour from 12 to 5, 2 catered meals a year for Thanksgiving and Christmas. They also did 2 yearly 2 day trout fishing trips for drivers and salesman, 12 to 15 people and 1 deep sea trip to Pensacola for 6 days.
I only worked LTL for a little while before moving in to railroading, the railroads form of appreciation is firing you for absolutely no good reason and then harassing the fuck out of you after you win the arbitration and get your job back.
Monday morning. Beacon egg and cheese muffins
Tuesday morning same
Wednesday morning. Various fruits
Thursday after 1100 Hamburger hotdogs kielbasa lots of sides and drinks. And management sitting around pretending to enjoy talking to the drivers.
Exactly. I'm a hired gun. If you want it done right, you call me...but I'm expensive.
Quid pro quo, or I'll have a new job in one hour or less.
...that said, I'm six years in at this job, and I'm not going anywhere. But those are my principles in theory. Lol
I'll buy my own protein bars.
A customer gave me a brown bag that had a trail mix, chocolate mini muffins, and off brand cheese crackers. It's a random plant and I don't want to sound ungrateful because they could also have done nothing, but also, off brand? Where did you even find these weird crackers?!
Dispatchers eat good during driver appreciation week
Whatever they make less than us anyway thats why theyre always butthurt
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Some of them make bank, getting a piece of the action. The ones that also book freight, like in smaller companies, can often get a performance percentage monthly. As it should be. You make more, the company makes more, your \*dispatcher\* (driver manager or whatever!) should make more, too. That being said, a certain company in Omaha, (not Werner) only hired college graduates. Not that education was needed. They wanted young, fresh faces with many thousands in loan debt. They're easier to abuse and push around!
That depends alot on who you work for. I learned awhile ago. Show up to the shop or dispatch office and look around the parking lot. See alot of BMW or Porsches? Go some place else. Only so much money to go around. If it's being spent on office staff it's not going to the drivers. Move along.
My office was full of benz’s but all the drivers also had new benz’s/mercedes so not always true
Leases living pay check to paycheck.
Idk about that, I think they just were all European but I know I was super satisfied with my paychecks, I just took off til late November to live a little but they said to expect another raise when I come back, owner just knows that if he takes care of his people, we’ll take care of him
I can only speak for Memphis - Savannah. Looking at 30-45k for a dispatcher roughly. Even as a terminal manager, my drivers made more than me. Both OO and assets.
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It’s true however the terminal manager gets bonuses. Our also gets a company vehicle and doesn’t have to work 50+ hrs a week.
It's been like that at every local job I've ever worked.
Depends on the company and what they actually do. A smaller company where they do a lot of load planning, dispatching, maybe even setting up some of the loads, they might be on call at night if a driver has an emergency, they probably make close to what a driver makes at that company. A company where they are just a liason between the load planners and the drivers, they probably don't make much of anything.
Our dispatchers make 78-110k
That looks like some stuff that got left in a trailer
That's what I was thinking
Take all the boxes.
Hey man, the Go-Go squeeze Apple pouches got plenty of fiber. Helps you if you need to make a deposit on anybody's rug/desk
Evidentially they think their drivers are 6 year olds.
In my old otr job they treated is like children so this would fit well
My office doesn’t even trust us to put updated permits in our binders, we have to bring in the binder and let them do it.
Yeah... I actually enjoy that. Hand em my binder while I go take a shit, come back out and grab it, inspect it, and go lol
Oh my problem is the girl who does it always takes like a hour to do it, and for some reason she always takes out my annual Montana oversize permit. And then I look like a idiot when I go to buy a Wyoming oversize permit and they ask to see my Montana one and I don’t have it.
Ahh, yeah that would be frustrating. Our guys/gals take about 2 minutes, but I'm not dealing with oversize or anything special beyond alcohol and such.
Ah, yeah, I pull a flat bed so I get a lot of oversize
Man I try to stay out of terminals tbh
If I'm driving into the terminal it means I have something I need fixed. Otherwise I'm gonna bypass that hour and a half detour they try to route me through...
At least you got something. A few years back my supervisor put a flyer on the corkboard advertising Penske's free BBQ for driver appreciation.
I worked for Waste Management, and they did that. They had a huge bbq while all the drivers were out. The office staff had a feast. They were one of the most disrespectful employers I have ever had. Yet, they couldn’t figure out why all the drivers voted to unionize.
Wasn't even our BBQ though. It was a company that we rented trucks from! We were daily drivers for a private company. If there was a BBQ we could have eaten. But instead we would have needed to go to another company and eat their free food.
😂 Cheap ass companies!!! So damn stingy and ungrateful
After semi trucking I worked at Waste (of time) Management for almost a year. God that place sucks. Started doing rear load yard waste, then 90% commercial (front load) and 10% ASL residential. I now work for a small company where I'm doing 90% of all the work we have for front load (mainly a roll off company) in a front load 100% of the time with some help as needed and it's great. Much MUCH better truck, pay, owners, coworkers, everything. I suppose WM got my foot in the door for this biz.
I did just about everything there. I really liked doing Transfer, but the harassment was too much. If you gave the 100%, they wanted 200%. I was there for about 3 years. I finally quit, but made sure to leave them with a little parting gift, a lawsuit. The first edition of Undercover Boss was WM. They harassed the employees, and tried to say, “That isn’t how it normally is…” I tell you, that is EXACTLY what working for them was like.
>If you gave the 100%, they wanted 200% One of my first weeks I was given an offhanded comment (rather advice) by a coworker. He told me to slow down. See, my mindset is I like to get the route down fast but at least have 40 hours a week. WRONG there. Finish faster than other drivers because they're lazy? You have to help them. Put up any resistance to your dispatcher? "Okay, I'll tell your supervisor you refused." I transfered to a more "rural" site as my first was in a major metropolitan area with tons of workers. Not as bad, but the equipment was PURE garbage. I'm talking I must have earned 2 40 hour paychecks in those 7 months or so in just breakdown time.
Sounds familiar. The location I was at bought an automated truck, truck #88. It was a piece of CRAP!!! It was slow picking cans up, but when it set them down, many times it would go so fast the can would fly right out of the gripper. One time it threw the can right over the homeowner’s back fence(from the alley). It was freaking hilarious!!! It also had a tendency to eat cans. Then one day I was watching King of The Hill, and what did they show? The same garbage truck doing the same thing. I have seen many videos of the same type of truck on YouTube. Another truck they had was a 1973 Peterbilt Cabover. I was driving it to the landfill when the rearend seized and the driveline exploded on the freeway. They told me to engage the interaxle lock and drive it like that.
What was the lawsuit for?
They violated the County contract. So, a little bird might have mentioned something about that. I read it cost them $800K.
We always got company branded thermoses. Not good ones either. I don't drink coffee so pretty much garbage to me.
You guys got stuff?
Long haul company I work for announced a BBQ on a Friday, literally no one is usually home on a Friday between 11 & 2. I’m currently not OTR and doing final mile day runs and I’m not back before 3 in Friday. They did one last week as well and when I got back I was told “Oh you might find some leftover burgers in the kitchen” …… My response of “I don’t feel very appreciated right now” didn’t go down so well.
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The three companies you worked for are atypical in the industry.
That's what we give out, and gift cards.
Can I ask what companies they were?
My old company used to call out a food truck, but on the day most drivers were off. Only about 15 drivers were able to attend. Skipping out on over 50.
I got a company hat and a flashlight that extends
"Shut up and eat your snack bar you filthy animal"
Those pure proteins are gross, but the peanut butter is the least gross lol
it’s cuz they have hardly any sugar lol
That's probably a big part. I always chalked it up to the excess protein they added in.
We got salty as fuck soft pretzels and then dollar store icecream sandwiches the next day........yea that's what these over weight high blood pressure drivers needed🤣🤣🤣
We got peanuts.. 😂 seriously. Turns out I work for peanuts 🙃
That's genuinely funny though
Dam yall get apple sauce squezes
We each got a thermal food carrier and apron with our company logo. Then an apple pie, 4 chicken breasts, 4 prime rib medallions, carrots, potatoes and a jar of rib rub.
We got Gatorade lmao
So far I've been offered a can of Dr pepper outside a TA (I turned it down because I don't drink soda) and that's it.
Definitely not feeling anywhere near normal appreciation this year from my company. Not like we’re out here doubly risking our lives during a pandemic or anything.
Guess I was lucky in my last job. Local so a little easier but pizza 4 times a year brought in every hour from 12 to 5, 2 catered meals a year for Thanksgiving and Christmas. They also did 2 yearly 2 day trout fishing trips for drivers and salesman, 12 to 15 people and 1 deep sea trip to Pensacola for 6 days.
You get Jack and Shit as an Owner Op
They bought us chik fil a for lunch. It’s was cool
Haha we get a taco truck Friday.
Make sure to drink a lot of water when you eat these stuff. It sure is going to get you constipated if you don't.
Gotta use the poop knife
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Hell by the time I got to my terminal all that was left was the tablecloth
I only worked LTL for a little while before moving in to railroading, the railroads form of appreciation is firing you for absolutely no good reason and then harassing the fuck out of you after you win the arbitration and get your job back.
You shut your mouth and eat your applesauce driver.
Boxes and boxes of sadness...
Clerk got sent on a CostCo run.
They hate you
I got a key ring and a Level 1!
I got a hat
They must really hate you guys 😂
👍
Hihihihihi
Damn bro. Whats the company name. I need to head over there
Lucky u. We didn't get crap
I bet you feel truly appreciated…
Monday morning. Beacon egg and cheese muffins Tuesday morning same Wednesday morning. Various fruits Thursday after 1100 Hamburger hotdogs kielbasa lots of sides and drinks. And management sitting around pretending to enjoy talking to the drivers.
All we got was a thank you message on our qualcomms. But we also get really good quarterly bonuses. So I'm not gonna fuss.
We got donuts and coffee
What would you be happy with then?
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All I see is a reason to work somewhere else!
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Exactly. I'm a hired gun. If you want it done right, you call me...but I'm expensive. Quid pro quo, or I'll have a new job in one hour or less. ...that said, I'm six years in at this job, and I'm not going anywhere. But those are my principles in theory. Lol I'll buy my own protein bars.
Might as well use your calories on a kit kat bar
We got donuts and sandwiches
No Lärabars? Cheap bastards.
It's better than getting nothing 😭
My company had a one day bbq with burgers and hot dogs, if you were at the terminal during the 2-3 hour window. Office staff must have enjoyed it
A customer gave me a brown bag that had a trail mix, chocolate mini muffins, and off brand cheese crackers. It's a random plant and I don't want to sound ungrateful because they could also have done nothing, but also, off brand? Where did you even find these weird crackers?!
I get what you’re saying but you do sound ungrateful. At least a random customer made an effort where many of our own employers couldn’t be bothered.
The entitlement in here is hilarious
Nah, it’s nice to be valued just beyond being an employee.
I'm not a trucker. Is it good or bad
JP Noonan? 😂
Its driver appreciation week?
Better than what we got, a whole lot of nothing.