RUN! RUN from this place! There are so many other ...

RUN! RUN from this place! There are so many other jobs out there for CDL holders, we are in high demand. The truth is I should have known this company was bad news from the start. They pay $12 an hour for orientation and don t even provide lunch. The orientation is conducted in a cramped module office that you have to drive to, which is in Mayer AZ. Then they pay $12 an hour for training which can be anywhere from three days to two weeks. Then after you are on your own, you have to work the night shift with little to no support running concrete or fly ash to plants. The pay is by the load which I have estimated to be always between $14-$18 an hour and usually it is the lower amount most of the time. There is no overtime pay after 40 hours. This is why the company pays by the load so they can get away with not paying overtime. They want CDL holders that are not wise enough to know they are being taken advantage of. That is probably why a lot of their new hires are students right out of schooling, which is the reason for their CSA score. They will require you to work 50-65 hours a week with no incentive after 40 hours. It is also slip seating which is horrible if there is a delay of any kind for the other driver, you will be stuck waiting for truck with no compensation. Then if you have to call John, the assistant driver manager or Dave, the driver manager, they will go on and on about how great they are and be sure to inform you how many years they have been super truckers. They will tell you about drivers making 60-70k a year to get you to come on board but what they don t tell you is that those drivers have been with the company for over two years and make higher percentage per load and work 60 plus hours a week for that income, which amounts to about just over $20 an hour. The pay is very low for the amount of hours/work they expect.
When Sara or one of the other ladies in Dispatch sends you a load for the night it can be one hour to six hours from the time they text you that you have to leave your house. So you are on call when you should be enjoying your time off. Day shift has huge advantage because they get the text the same time as you do the day before. You will have to text/call dispatch or other drivers for directions to concrete plants like M1, DRM 5, CP 159, and many more. This information should be easily accessible to drivers so they are not wasting time driving around looking for entrance to a place or the silos, which doesn t bother the company because they pay by the load. They don t care about your time.
Be careful not to disagree with Sara or any of the other girls in dispatch about any load they send you. They will respond very rudely and tell you how long they have been doing their job and that you can find another job. Dave the driver manager is obviously under their authority because he will take their side even if they are wrong about how long it takes someone to do a specific run which you already have done. Of course they don t calculate a proper pre-trip, restroom breaks, etc. Bottom line is that drivers are treated like low man on the totem pole at this company and are paid accordingly. They will also want you to violate your 11 hour driving time mandated by DOT and use your 16 hour exemption often. Not many can do there Joseph City to Tucson run without working 14-16 hours that night. Oh and by the way I was given this run twice within two weeks of telling them I was having a hard time adapting to night shift. Real accommodating!
Last but not least, when you are stuck somewhere for 45 minutes to fix a tire and two and a half hour delay at Joseph City because security had to clear me the first time I went to this plant, they don t pay you the promised $17 an hour for delayed pay. I put in paperwork and even called Caitlin in HR but never saw that money. I could go on but I think you get the point.