Averitt Express Reviews

Pros

Work environment and open door policy

Pros

AVERITT is a great company provided that it fits with what you are looking for from trucking.

PROS. Good home time doing your 34 hour reset at home. The fleet managers and load planners do an outstanding job with this.

Good equipment including trailers. Trailers and tractors are regularly pulled out of rotation when they get old.

Good benefits. Currently AVERITT has BCBS with health incentives to lower your premiums, such as non smoker reduction and health screening reduction.

Plenty of service centers in the running area to do a 10 or drop your trailer to bobtail for a quick bite.

AVERITT is very driver responsive and actively seeks to find ways to build on strengths to keep drivers happy.

Management is very proactive starting with fleet managers but supported by an active driver support specialist division.

Advice to Management

AVERITT management is great. Keep listening to drivers. Find ways to play to the company strengths. Seek out drivers that look good in red.

Pros

Compared to other trucking companies I have worked for in the past, Averitt has their stuff together! And they don't outsource any dept like collections or billing unlike other companies (UPS and even Estes)
But the one key thing about this company is in most areas and Dept they have great people working for them and work together like a team to reach the common goal.

Advice to Management

Please do not change and structure yourself like other huge companies in regards to micromanaging. You have to remember if you hire the right people who care there's no need for micromanagement. Because the only thing that will happen is you will lose those good people. And before you consider promoting anybody to a higher title at corporate please make sure that they have walked in the shoes and held the positions that they are going to manage. Please don't ever promote someone who currently is doing basically an admin position into you a position of managing groups of people like your sales force. Working a job where you are good at offering administrative support to a sales force (like reports) is NOT the same as managing especially when SHE has only held office jobs. Quit allowing her to dictate on sales job requirements when she has never held a real sales position where she actually called on customers and managed a territory.

Pros

Great home time, especially local, decent competitive company pay, solid benefits, health insurance by bluecross is lower than most other companies, the other benefits are well priced such as dental, vision, accidental, life, cancer, critical illness by colonial Life, respectful human resources, office workers, made friends with many coworkerscoworkers. You can work lots of hours, paid hourly. They have an app for paystubs to check every week. Cookouts regularly at service centers. The CEO is down to earth friendly realistic, and humble. The main office staff were friendly.paid time off accumulates, you get vested in your profit sharing plan, they offer 401k with Wells Fargo. The trucks are relatively new, always do pretrip and they will fix any problems. After 6 months you can bid on any job in the company. I'm a hard worker so lots of hours is good with me. The values here are definitely honest in that the driving force is the people of the company.

Advice to Management

Keep up the good work

Pros

I am very happy here, Averitt isnt without its problems but over all beats all other Trucking companies ive worked for.

Advice to Management

Better communication, manage trailers better

Pros

Flexibility work schedule, relocation possible.

Advice to Management

Stop allowing one leader run off your employees.

Pros

Good co
Workers to work with

Pros

lots of hours and hard work

Advice to Management

take better care of your employees

Pros

Benefits, Company Culture, Strong Leadership, Good support from all departments

Pros

Seems to have a good benefits package

Advice to Management

The use of "leader" to label supervision, is an absolute joke. Leaders only look out for themselves and not their people. Call them supervisors or managers, some of these "leaders" have no idea how to lead, but can manage just fine.
The professional image policy should be revisited, the folks in the call center, who never see the customer, should not have a more strict policy than the drivers, who are the true face of the company.