Roadway Express Reviews

Pros

Pay and benefits are GREAT.

Cons

YRC is taking jobs away from Roadway and adding more Yellow jobs

Advice to Senior Management

Management in the local terminal is fine but management above them stinks.

Pros

Good union work. Even though Teamsters aren't as strong as they use to be.

Cons

Union losing steam
dirty work environment

Advice to Senior Management

Quit pushing the union

Pros

The pay and benefits were great. You started at $11 and worked up to around $22 an hour within 3 years no matter whether you were part time or full time. Overtime was time and half for full time employees. Benefits were offered to both part time and full time employees. It was an excellent job to have while going to college.

Cons

Billing was almost all 2nd shift and those who got 1st or almost 1st shift had either been there for a very long time or were chosen for seemingly random reasons. There weren't a lot of cons until the merger with Yellow happened and the company started to go down hill. Upper management handled the entire situation poorly. We did get a good separation package, though.

Pros

opportunity for career growth within

Cons

work life balance was horrible overall

Advice to Senior Management

open line of communication with employees

Pros

the economy is brutal, so overall not a good time to be in this industry.

Cons

little guidance, ever-changing commission structure, no help from corporate when problems arise, billing system is terrible

Advice to Senior Management

fix billing errors and you will keep more clients

Pros

National Company with decent pay and benefits. Company was good until Yellow bought it out and then ran everyone into debt.

Cons

Was a good company until Yellow bought them out and messed up by purchasing USF. Unbelivable that Bill Zollers is still there after they had to take a 800 million dollar write down as a result of their poor decision to purchase USF. Now they are in trouble and they still have the guys who ran the company into the ground and they are still around. How sad.

Advice to Senior Management

Quit and get some competent people to run this multi billion dollar company.

Pros

For the area in which I was living in, Roadway was one of the better paying jobs that was around. The environment was alright at most.

Cons

Takes a long time to gain seniority on the dock, and would most like wait 10 years to work a day-shift, and at least 20 years to have off Sat-Sun.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more up front when laying people off.

Pros

The pay and benefits package.

Cons

Everything except the above tells it all.

Advice to Senior Management

This is above my paygrade and one is told this when trying to be innovative.