YRC Worldwide Reviews

Pros

Proud of 25+ years in of trucking. It has given myself and my family a very comfortable lifestyle. It is a good feeling when you are able to pay the bills and support your family.

Cons

There are times when the long hours, especially when you are mandatoried overtime when the hours are very long for one day. Local management has very little trust in the companies employees. This mistrust is shown when we are followed on our routes to see if there is something we are not doing correctly.

Advice to Senior Management

To please remember we are all in this together and if we can work together we as a unit will continue to make this company something we are all proud to work for.

Pros

Fair wage even after wage concessions, good insurance program. The tractors for city operation are mostly retired line haul units. All of the drivers will argue the good, and the bad part of them, but, they are still better than the units of the past.

Cons

The truly lack of leadership from the supervisor. They know when someone is messing up and damaging our customers freight but look the other way. Then they have the nerve to come up to you, and say you have to pick up the pace to make up the difference. Also, the city dispatch says to call in after every 4th stop, and they don't answer the phone.You leave a message, then they call you back and jump all over you for not calling in. You tell them you left a message, and after a few more negative comments about your performance they admit they don't know how to receive their messages left on the voice mail. Besides, they say they don't have time.

Advice to Senior Management

Please look into why we have so many failed time criticals. Also, why does line hall show up in late afternoon with it? Please look into a way us dark terminals have access to what is picked up and en route to our location so we can plan ahead, to better serve our customers. Instead of making a change of operations, why in the world can't we fix our roofs on most of our trailers. Why are they even being loaded on when they can clearly see the holes in them. When can we go back to finding out our terminals O.R.? None of these suggestions are hard to fix, we hear of taking care of our customers. Why not prove it by, #1- listen to them, and react to their negative feelings of our management. #2- Discipline those that damage our freight, and our equipment. #3- Start listening to your drivers on the city routes. They are the best way to finding out our customers needs, instead of trying to shove something to them they don't want. How many more customers do we have to loose before someone starts to listen? Most of our customers say they are giving us the freight because of the driver. Not the company, when our rates are comparable to other carriers.

Pros

Easy hours and close location.

Cons

never getting a break from the phones

Advice to Senior Management

Make a bigger lunch room. 4 chairs for 20 people is unheard of.
Maybe a party where employees didn't have to bring food would be nice too

Pros

Learned alot about leading and transportation

Cons

Benefit cuts
Pay cuts
Vacation cuts
Poor morale
Poor senior leadership

Advice to Senior Management

Start making money and improving the culture

Pros

Reporting requirements are less burdensome than some of the other companies in the industry.

Cons

unstable finanacially, union employees, inability to demand a higher standard from employess, lack of visionary leadership and a poor perception of the company in the marketplace.

Advice to Senior Management

work to breather new life into the company by introducing new ideas, fresh blood on your frontlines and sell your vision for the future to the rank and file.

Pros

The people (the rank and file) represent some of the best co-workers you may ever meet from a professional and personal standpoint.

Cons

Poor management at the top along with the arrogance of the Overland Park group brought down what could have been a great organization.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire and promote the best transportation people, regardless of previous company affiliation.

Pros

Company wide communication
Benefits package
Good people

Cons

Instability of the company
No Advancement
Competition

Pros

Coworkers are fun to work with and base pay is decent
It was a job when I needed one, when I found a better opportunity I took it

Cons

Poor management style
Unnecessarily Micromanaged (to death)
No opportunities for promotion or advancement
Company is financially unstable
Kaizen SOP works in manufacturing but not in a sales oriented organization

Advice to Senior Management

You pay for what you get. If you continue to offer low salaries and limited career growth opportunities you will continue to lose "Good People".

Pros

They are very competitive with pay

Cons

this horrible economy has created alot of pandemonium

Advice to Senior Management

I think management should be more courteous

Pros

the salary is fairly ok...

Cons

cant take a lunch..work 12 hrs with minimal breaks...
you are never told you do a good job..work nights and weekends all the time.

Advice to Senior Management

very poor..good ole boy network