Estes Express Reviews

I have been working at Estes Express full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great pay. Good values. Pretty good benefits. Raises and bonuses. Laid back attitude.

Cons – Local management. It's ALWAYS the drivers fault, guilty till proven innocent. Lots of chiefs and hens. .

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Estes Express full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good pay and solid benefits package

Cons – Difficult to move up within the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Train your employees and provide opportunity for advancement to make the workplace more engaging and improve retention.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Estes Express full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – When I first started here I thought that I would retire here, BOY WAS I WRONG. There are NO PROS.

Cons – It's bad when you got someone in management that thinks he has to be a BULLY & push people around all the time. He has made every woman cry in the office over stupid stuff. And the sad thing is that corp. mgt doesn't believe a word of it when complaints are filled.

Advice to Senior Management – If you don't turn your Management Team around I give this Company maybe 5 years before it shuts its doors. REMEMBER THIS!!!!!!!!! Your drivers, dock & office personel can either make you or brake you.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Estes Express full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – They have very nice equipment to operate,and always are kept clean.Never a lack of work,they always seem to keep you busy.Good job security!!!!

Cons – Some of the downsides that I see being a former employee of the company are, that you are never recognized for all your hard work that you put into the company.Nobody seems to take notice in the employees that come in everyday and give it 110%,and then some.You would think that when you get top notch drivers coming through the door you would want to hang on to them.

Advice to Senior Management – Start taking notice of many of the fine employees within the company.Working together as a team will make many employees feel wanted and needed.Always remember that keeping your employees happy is one of the most important aspects within a company.Always remember when you have something good,hold on to it.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Estes Express full-time

Pros – Very good environment to grow up with your career.

Cons – You need to show your work skills.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Estes Express full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Lots of long term employees.
The benefits are OK.
Has always been a privatly owned company.
You really have to mess up bad to get fired.

Cons – Vacation policy lacks. It takes nine years to get 3 weeks and 18 years to get 4 weeks. Four weeks is the max you can get.
Many of the directors and VP's play favorites.
Parking issues.
Company and department communication is horrible!

Advice to Senior Management – Get more involved in what you employees are doing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Estes Express part-time for less than a year

Pros – The starting wage for dock workers...that's honestly all I can say unfortunately.

Cons – Miserable manager, and dock supervisors treat employees with no respect, scream and cuss them out for petty reasons. So much favoritism, advancement is not earned through hard work, but by being best buds with supervisors, no matter how obviously better you are at production. I honestly felt like somebody was taking my production signatures, and erasing them. My hard work was never acknowledged. Poor terminal condition, very poor work equipment.

Advice to Senior Management – You may want to actually check the logs/production charts and pay attention to who really puts in the most effort on your dock, and gets the most done before your supervisors try and sweep them under the rug. You may loose more employees who proved to be truly more exceptional than others, but were never given a chance. Monitor the way your employees are being treated, and how they are spoke to out on the dock by management, and the supervisors. This has caused many of your coworkers to frequently complain about your terminal, and ask me about landing freight jobs with other companies several times. Your outdated/worn down equipment , and van loading process caused so much freight to be destroyed while I worked at your terminal. This needs to be changed before you loose your biggest contracts. Fights broke out all the time on the dock because of poor management/supervisors. Your employees do not deserve to be victims of a horrible, and hostile work environment like what you have at this terminal. If only I could vent further.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Estes Express full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – good pay, benefits okay, //nothing follows

Cons – Back stabbing management and employess, dont care about employees only numbers, always trying to find a way to cut hours, dock supervisor doesnt pitch in or "back you up" when there is a problem, went thru 5 terminal managers in 10 years..., and the freight comes in trashed if customers would see how there stuff comes in this business will shut down in a heart beat. Crappy dock and equipment to work with they dont seem to take care or fix equipment..tractors and hilos always breaking down, Office people always worrying what they are going to have for lunch instead of focusing on customers. Dock is always slippery and wet hard to drive on, but yet they dont do anything about it...Estes is to worrying about making money instead of trying to fix or update their equipment. Dead End!!!! VERY LOW MORALE!!!!!!!!!!!

Advice to Senior Management – Need more drug testing on employees ..

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Estes Express full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Privately held company is a big plus in this sector
Pay and benefits is middle of the road
Lot's of good people with a lot of experience

Cons – Very little consistency and standardization on the operations end
TM = Ten Months, if even that
Outdated mindset
Outdated equipment
Outdated technology
A lot of upper management with no clue

Advice to Senior Management – Adding layers of management in sales is only detrimental to end goal.
Customers see that your AM's aren't having fun.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Estes Express full-time for less than a year

Pros – Estes is a very large LTL trucking company but still manages to maintain the small company feel. The Estes family is intimately involved and are a wonderful family to work for.

Cons – Their Baltimore terminal is one where they allow the inmates to run the asylum.

Advice to Senior Management – Do not let the bottom producers threaten you into ceding to unreasonable productivity.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company