Hey fellow truckers here is my experience so far with Estes.
I been here couple months at Estes out of Houston, all I can say this is by far the worst job I ever had since I became a driver. The TM is a total yahoo who only cares about numbers and I quote he said we are going to train customers to our way. Here at this terminal they dont care about customers either for a pick up or delivery, palletjacks are crap and if you cant find one out there thats decent, drivers will suggest for you to buy your own.
Equipment overall is the crappiest even though they are aware of the rolling pile of equipment we got, management wants you to get out in 30 mins. When it comes to hazmat, apparently we are the number 2 on hazmat holds nationwide. We had a meeting with the safety guy who kept on saying refer to book whenever we pick up hazmat. Apparently now we have measure the hazmat description comes with parenthesis if not it will get hold and you will be slap with 3 days off.
Paper we waste so much paper is ridiculous, now that we have handhelds we should be eliminating all the paperwork required for lunch bring backs and the time you get in and get out of the yard. In regards to Hours older drivers with seniority are barely scraping 40 hours, since i barely got couple months in im averaging 34 hours a week and a day off every week. When I got hired i was told a day off would be mandatory a month but not every week.
Honestly Estes has the potential to be a great company, as long as we have these yahoos in management drivers will leave along with mechanics and customer service ladies will quit as well. Crazy thing we already in may every other major LTL is working every day and getting 50 hours or more a week at least here in my area.
I wonder if Mr. Estes even cares that most staff is leaving to other places instead of staying here.
Well here is my two cents in why I dislike working here.