Official Worst Companys List, rank bassed on ripoff reports and annual revenue

thehats00 · Jan 18, 2014

Yep! Lol!!

Primeinc1234 · Jul 16, 2017

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I have worked for 3 of these companies, PRIME (6 years) Southern Refrigerated Transport (9 months) and Celadon 2 years to current and I couldn't disagree with this list more. you are ignoring too many factors that contribute to the rise or fall of a company, revenue means nothing in comparison to "ARE they a good company to work for". Robert Lowe (CEO and Owner of PRIME Inc. being a personal friend of mine since I was a mere boy) stated PRIME pulled in a figure WAY beyond your statement here and has no reason to lie.

first things first, A company's revenue has VERY little to do with what they give a DRIVER as far as being a good company. Shouldn't safety rating reflect quite a bit about a company? Prime's safety rating is FAR above 90 percent of major freight carriers throughout the US and Canada, as is Celadon's. Benefits offered by companies to the drivers should play a role as well as driver pay scale and average owner op/lease op income. A little bit about PRIME Inc. to give some of the "Oh PRIME has slow trucks so they're a bad company" bandwagon. Their main terminal, based in Springfield, MO. costed Mr. Lowe a whopping 24 MILLION dollars to build and MOST of the cost was FOR his drivers. Including a driver ran, driver controlled movie theatre, touch screen KOHLER surround showers, FREE bunk rooms which are closer to a Howard Johnson room with a double bed, full indoor basketball and weight gyms, complete with FREE to company employees and their family members, PERSONAL TRAINERS. a massage parlor and spa, yard wide free wi-fi at t-1 speeds, hair salon, arcade, embroidery shop, company store the size of Southern Refrigerated's main terminal, FREE daycare center, a TOP of the line restaurant where an 8 oz. chicken fried steak will cost a driver around 6 bucks. a 75 bay shop, state of the art security systems in and out of the building, smoking and non smoking driver's lounges, big screen televisions in both, a yearly company truck rodeo, christmas/new year's party is always hosted in 4 star or above locale, my last I attended had 4 caterers and live....music if you want to call that group music, a PEER safety review board, meaning it's drivers who have a say in accident decisions and they have to go through training via FMCSA which is why I mentioned them. NOW let's look at the quality of their equipment. EVERY full suzed conventional owned by PRIME is equipped with either a Carrier or Thermo King Tri-Pac APU, VORAD or OnGuard smart cruise systems. By the way, have you ever seen a PRIME truck with SETTLED dirt on it? Oh, that's because they spring for their trucks to get a wash as needed. ALL PRIME's mechanics in Springfield are CERTIFIED...not some grease monkey who just crawled out from under a farm tractor and decided to try his hand at the city life. GINORMOUS fuel network....need fuel with PRIME? find a TA, PETRO, Pilot, Love's and you got fuel.

SRT....in my opinion should be among the top worst companies to work for. TERRIBLE equipment. Trailers with pieced together frames, Nearly ALL their trucks are refurbished from wrecks. Dispatchers have the ability to fire a driver, NOT the other way around as is standard practice in the industry. average miles per week depends on dispatcher and what they WANT to give you. Make a dispatcher there mad if you WANT to...we'll see how far from where you are sitting at the time you make it in the next week. a 97..YES...97 (100 being the worst) safety rating. Head dispatcher is rarely sober. not many drivers can accurately describe what Tony Smith (owner) looks like. HORRIBLE fuel network...a big ole whopping 135 truck stop fuel network with NONE of them in Arizona, Alabama and one other state but I forgot which state. and the BIGGEST reason they are Mr. Magoo's horribad company of the millenium....52% OWNED BY COVENANT...nuff said

MOST of those companies are training companies and will have what you could call a "revolving door turnover". You have many who are students there thus employed there who just don't cut it or hate working in this industry. Schneider layed claims as one of the biggest net income trucking companies of 2010. Celadon was voted as one of the five BEST fleets to drive for and are awarded by multiple publications for both safety and overall employee satisfaction. Celadon also one of the safest companies in the US/Canada by FMCSA and DAC ratings.

Valiant effort and definitely food for thought for newer drivers but not accurate if you ask me.
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Well they need to look into Debbie J at Campus inn she housekeeping manager and she is ripping people off on incentive and over working them I clean 55 rooms aday and make $200 a week. She is messing with the pay checks and I can't contact anyone in fear of loosing my job

aussiejosh · Jul 16, 2017

Primeinc1234 said: ↑

She is messing with the pay checks and I can't contact anyone in fear of loosing my job
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Ever heard of a union or industrial relations all "legal" workers have rights, that includes those in the USA on valid work visa's. If your illegal thats the only reason you won't have any rights cause you know if you complain they'll report you to I.C.E

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