Wadhams Enterprises - RIST dry van division journal

Hi noobie, welcome to the thread and thanks for joining!

To answer your question from the documentation they provided me...

"A Comprehensive Medical Plan through Excellus BlueCross/BlueShield that is available to all full time employees the first of the month following 60 days of employment.

Premiums are deducted bi-weekly on a pre-tax basis from payroll
Non-Smoker Single $110.75 Smoker Single $130.75
Non-Smoker Family $300.50 Smoker Family $320.50

** We are introducing a new program designed to promote wellness by helping our employees eliminate ALL
Tobacco products from their life. The Medical Plan will now provide benefits for Tobacco Cessation treatment.
In addition, the new program will implement a surcharge (payroll deduction increase). If you cannot confirm "Tobacco Free" status, your normal payroll bi-weekly deduction cost (shown above) will be increased by $20 and will continue at the increased level. [by that I understand it to mean the second column with $20 factored in already (note by OP)]

Medical Services Deductible: $250 Calendar Year per person.
First $250 to be paid by the employee on all services (except Wellness).

• Office visits covered at 100% after $30.00 co-pay and deductible is met.
• Preventive (Well) Care services paid at 100%. This includes routine mammograms, routine diagnostic scopes, routine GYN exam, routine prostate exam, and routine adult and child well care.
• Outpatient Surgery is covered at 100% after $200.00 co-pay and deductible is met. (prior authorization needed)
• Emergency Room visits are covered at 100% after $100.00 co-pay and deductible is met. This is for both non-life threatening and sudden & serious visits.

• Hospital/Inpatient Admissions are covered at 100% after $500.00 co-pay and deductible is met.

($250.00 penalty if not Pre-authorized)

You can go to any doctor you want and no referrals are needed.

Pharmacy (RX) Deductible: $75.00 per Calendar Yer per person. (First $75.00 to be paid by the employee for all RX services).
Prescription Coverage: is through Express Scripts (ESI)

$10.00 generic, $35.00 brand and $70.00 for brand Non-preferred co-pay for 30-day supply for retail purchases.

90-day supply mail order prescriptions through Express Scripts Pharmacy or SMART90 Network Pharmacies can be purchased for $20.00 generic, $70.00 brand co-pay and $140.00 non-preferred brand."

The also have dental, vision, AFLAC and Employee Choice (HSA if I understand it correctly) plans on top of the above.

Hope that helps! Stay safe and healthy!

 

Thanks for joining McUzi.

I haven't yet heard any mention of doubles from my new boss or HR and even Beth the recruiter who got me into the company, but then with the mass hysteria of this ridiculous propagandemic going on things are kinda slowed down with regards to my getting started in earnest.

Latest update I have to report is that I went out to the Rensselaer terminal this past Wednesday to have my company paid DOT physical and piss test and to do the preliminary road test.

Got my two year DOT certification once again (6 months after my self-paid one which I got before starting CDL school last September) although I haven't yet heard about the test results. Don't expect any surprises with that though.

Road test was interesting. Wasn't nervous at all but #### was I rusty after 5 months of not double clutching lol. They actually had me haul an empty tanker around a portion of Albany but it was a ghost town due to the panic so all good there, just had an interesting time trying to find gears on the downshift. The trainer said to me "give me a week or two and I'll knock the rust off ya" lol.

So before the crack of dawn on Monday I'll be driving out from North Western Mass back to the terminal to start a 1-2 week paid refresher course while the company figures out how and when they can safely start me with an on the road trainer driving actual cargo. I'll get some money in the short term anyways @ 17.10 training rate/hr which is better than nothing. Just hope Cuomo pulls his head out of his butt and puts an end to this quarantine nonsense so people can go back to work and stop behaving like scared mice. The Spice must Flow!

 

There's still a sign for Sprague on the opposite side of the road a short distance before you reach the terminal lot but I haven't paid much attention to the surrounding area. I'm sure I'll become more familiar with the area in due course.

Were you with RIST or ARG division? Both use that terminal.

 

Gotcha.

Ah the 90's, some of the best years of my life and some of the worst. Was living overseas back then in Belgium and for a shorter span in France.