Ryder System Reviews

Pros

Company pays for professional certification and continuous learning.
Good work and family life balance.

Cons

Promotion depends on the manager you report to.
Some managers promote faster than others.

Advice to Senior Management

Obtain feedback and collaboration from all parties involved before asking them to adopt a program.

Pros

The TMC is a professional and relaxed atmosphere. Local management is competent and they their best to raise employee moral.

Cons

As a 3PL, the pay is low and the benefits are a bit meager compared with competitors, but especially compared with other transportation companies. We have not had a raise on at least three years, four for some people.

Advice to Senior Management

Get your people a raise. The best minds leave because they can actually make a living outside of Ryder. Ryder TMC simply serves as a training ground for the competition.

Pros

plenty of advancement opportunity and great benefits

Cons

long hours and little pay

Advice to Senior Management

increase salaries and fringe benefits

Pros

The people are easy to get along with.
There is supposed to be room for growth and training opportunities.
Very little supervision.

Cons

Though the interest was shown, no further training was given. It doesnt matter how hard of a worker you are, you get no more recognition than the guys who do nothing. Never saw the potential for moving up.

Advice to Senior Management

Make more of a notice of who is actually working, and who is not. Get rid of worthless employees that spend the whole day wasting time. Offer the employees that are working hard growth opportunities.

Pros

Get to work autonamously
Peers are extremely supportive

Cons

Field organization is a nightmare
Corporate has no idea or does not care to engage in what is really going on in the field.
Company is based on selling a service the service is sub par at best
Pricing is higher than competitiors management does not address this at all
Compensation is based on profitablility of transactions which is nonexistent.
No support in the field account manager is responsible for all aspects of the account-glorified customer service.
Current head of sales leads by intimidation does not value the role of professional sales people

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on customer service and the delivery of a better quality product to the customer.
Pay attention to the word outside of Ryder to become more competitive and actually grow market share instead of worrying about every nickel-focus on true growth.

Pros

Manager was very nice and extremely flexible.

Cons

Extremely low pay, benefits were expensive, little to know interest for advancements

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the voice of your employees

Pros

It might be a better company to work for once the economy turns around. A lot depends on the outcome of the accounting standards for operating leases.

Cons

Big business politics. You have to know how to work the system with the upper management. Tough to work here for more than a couple years.

Advice to Senior Management

More team building exercises. You need to have more lines of open communication, so decision can be made more quickly.

Pros

Management is wonderful to work for and very understanding.

Cons

Movement up salary ladder is hard

Pros

Good place to learn if you are just starting out in your career

Cons

Very little chance to advance

Advice to Senior Management

Look to your employees for advancement and not bring in from outside as much

Pros

Not a bad place to start out of school

Cons

Lack of leadership, takes forever for decisions to made and processed, need management to like you in order to move up, lack of work life balance.