YRC Worldwide Reviews

Current Employee – been working at YRC Worldwide full-time for less than a year

Pros – Nice benefits package - health, dental, vision, savings package
Competitive wage/salary
Standard vacation setup
Outside company benefits - cell phone discounts

Cons – Dissatisfied union employees and minimal staffing
Long hours and varying schedules
Lots of overtime available.
Often-times short-staffed due to union no-shows
Recent restructuring of facilities, management, and some locations.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at YRC Worldwide full-time for more than a year

Pros – People are great--like family
Flexible schedules

Cons – Stuck in a mainframe mindset
Slow to move to modern development styles and project management.

Advice to Senior Management – Consolidate and simplify systems. Change to a different development style to encourage faster responses to needed changes to the systems.

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

Current Employee – been working at YRC Worldwide full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good bennies and pay package

Cons – Company deep in debt.... Almost went into bankruptcy

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at YRC Worldwide full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Working here was great at first until Roadway merged with Yellow freight and turned the place upside down. I worked here for seven years and after the merger was layed off (not enough seniorty) You would think after seven years of service that would amount to something.

Cons – If you get a job here you can say goodbye to your life. You will be on call for years and must be ready to work at any time of the day or night. There are five daily shifts and you will work probably three different shifts per week and guess what, if they don't call one day congrats you just had a day off sitting around waiting for the phone to ring. Good Luck!!!!

Advice to Senior Management – Happy employees make good employees!!!

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

Former Employee – worked at YRC Worldwide full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good Money to start off with, quick pay raises as well. Management was good to work with. Location was ideal.

Cons – Training plans-made a transition and added a new entity which required a lot of overtime and a lot of people waiting impatiently for a long period of time

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at YRC Worldwide full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – When it is good, it is really good. The flow of freight keeps you on your toes and keeps you wallet filled.

Cons – Freight slowly decreasing, company falling apart. Very poor upper management. Sneeky back door deals and corrupt politics. They want the drivers to take pay cuts while the upper people still make millions! Heaven forbid they lose $100 a yr on budget cutbacks! The biggest con is there are non cdl qualified people that "tell you how to do your job"!

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

Former Employee – worked at YRC Worldwide full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Union Workers held in high esteem.

Cons – Salaried staff bears the brunt of Company's down sizing with no pay raises or reductions in salary in exchange for more responsibilities. If you don't live near their headquarters in Overland park, KS then you have little job security.

Advice to Senior Management – Cost controls can be penny wise and pound foolish when you consolidate staff positions at their headquarters (KS) reduces the company's overall effectiveness due to the loss of experience from other regional locations. Specialized skills are lost in centralization of staff in KS with an associated loss of more advanced Business Intelligence initiatives.

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

Former Employee – worked at YRC Worldwide full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The Pay was excellent. Working at and with the terminals was fun.

Cons – The corporate atmosphere was very hostile. Mistakes were not allowed, every detail was micromanaged. People were micromanaged at the corporate level. If you weren't the type of person who would walk all over your coworkers to please the bosses, they didn't want you. I saw good people turn hostile just because they feared of losing their jobs. Numbers were always being played with. People did not matter to them. Only money.

Advice to Senior Management – You'd get better results from your employees and your drivers if you treated them better. Care about something other than just money and maybe you wouldn't be so poorly managed.

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

Former Employee – worked at YRC Worldwide

Pros – Competitive pay. Former Roadway leadership was competent.Vacation was good under Roadway management.

Cons – Very stressful. Senior Yellow Freight management couldn't be trusted. Poor communication between cross country departments and from Yellow management.

Advice to Senior Management – Because of bad upper management decisions, destroyed a good company (Roadway), its employees and status in community.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at YRC Worldwide

Pros – Casual dock you got to make your own schedule

Cons – Management sucked the entire time there

Advice to Senior Management – Start at the bottom an rebuild throughout the top.