Lower level management sucks - Road Driver ABF Freight Employee Review

4.0
Sep 1, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is great. Insurance is great. Work is relatively stress free. Management at the top is competent (the company is stable financially while nearly all other Teamster driving companies have gone out of business).

Cons

Unfortunately, leadership at the terminal level is horrendous. Example… they sent a driver a letter for failure to follow instructions AFTER acknowledging that driver was not given any directions. Another… manager told a driver he would pay him for something, then flat out lied about it and denied his pay. I could go on, but here’s my point… terminal level management knows nothing about leadership. They are like engineers. They have a process to follow and they cannot think for themselves beyond that process. That results in poor decisions by people that are just trying to cover their own backside. What compounds the problem is that most truly don’t care about the drivers at all. They just want to sit in their office, get paid, then go home. I had over 2,000 people under my employment at my previous job. I would only hire about 10% of the ABF terminal level management that I have met.

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5.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

Low stress environment. No cost Healthcare benefits. An amazing Defined Benifit Pension. Terrific Company to work for.

Cons

Working on a cold dock in the Winter with do doors. Some workers that don’t appreciate the benifits of working under a Teamster contract.

4.0
Jul 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Four days on four day off

Cons

Union workforce and unprecedented KPI metrics

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