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Old 04-05-2008, 09:02 AM
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I can't speak for their terminal in Chicago, but I worked at their Toledo one. Worst job I've ever had. It was so bad I quit in 3 days. I have a friend who had a similar experience at one of their Michigan terminals. I'll try to sum up just SOME of my bad experiences there.

1. I got ZERO training, they didn't tell me one policy, just threw me out the door and expected me to know how they do things.

2. When working the dock you get paid by this PDA called a dolphin. At the end of one day It said I had zero hours, I talked to the terminal manager... he didn't seem to care. I never got paid for 8 hours of dock work.

3. Someone in the office showed me a sheet full of pay issues... it was for just one week.

4. the night dispatcher didn't even now that I needed the bill to some hazmat I was carrying.

5. The dock was 95% full, with freight stacked 3 and 4 high... freight was falling over on me.

6. the truck they gave me to drive was made in the 80's and wasn't DOT legal; sure I could've refused to drive it but then I would've been going home.

7. I'd report to work when they told me, but then I'd have to sit around for up to 2 hours for them to get everything ready, and I wasn't getting paid. And no I couldn't work the dock because city driver were using the forks.

There was more, but you get the idea. I would never recommend anyone go there unless they are desperate. I left there to go back to my old company that had worse pay & benefits and I don't regret it.

Just to give you an idea of the turn over, at least on the linehaul side. There were about a dozen other linehaul guys at the terminal, I wanted the indy run but you needed seniorty for that. I asked how long it'd take me to get seniorty to run it, I was told not long cuz top seniority driver had just a little over a year with the company.

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Originally Posted by buzzard View Post
I have received a Job offer to work for Central Transport in Chicago...can anyone tell me the working conditions at Central and any other info u think would b helpful.

Buzz
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