waste management

OK, since nobody else will show their ignorance, - what is a skip hire company?

 

I just went through my 4th interview with them. I think I might get on with them this time. They are non-union here in Northern CA but it sounds liek they may try to become a union shop (again). I have never felt that unions helped me in the past. But this is a new era and I am sure they were #### important before.

 

I got my driving start at Waste Management. They were great to me and paid me more than any other job in town. Only quit because I moved out of state, and there were no good transfer opportunities for me.

Our location would hire #### near anyone and then train you for your CDL. All promotions were from within, so you had a lot of opportunity to move up and all your bosses understood what your job was because they started the same way you did. Only thing was that you started at the bottom, so matter what your experience or license.

We were non-union, but workers from a small location we took over were trying to push for one. Would have really done us no good, since we were already getting taken care of so well, but I guess that depends on your location.

Work was hard, but paid enough to be worth it. Think other locations would be better, since we ran a fleet of one man trucks (last location running only one man trucks in the country, from what I understand).

 

Dave, for what it's worth, they still are one man trucks here in Southern Utah. They don't need any more than one man on a truck, since everything (supposedly) is placed in the bin's they just come along and the truck has a lift on it, so they grab the bin with the lift arm and dump it in the truck. Once in a while they have a mess to clean up, but not normally. And I might add, they do a hell of a good job of cleaning up the few messes they run into.

And of course there commercial division uses the dumpsters, so that is a one man operation. They do have some specialty trucks that will come out and pick up oversize items, by special arrangement. I believe they have two guys on those trucks, but I can't say for sure as I've never had to call them.

 

Yeah, there are one man trucks all over the place. Makes a lot more sense to me, in a lot of cases, than two man trucks.

What we were told is that we were the last fleet in the country to run ONLY one man trucks, and not have a single truck running two people. Right before I left, we switched garbage over to two man trucks.

Of course, like anything else, who knows for sure if what I was told is actually correct.

 

you can very easily get that bs anywhere and make less money

they were on strike in seattle and it was on the tv news every day how these cats makin 26$ an hour want to walk off their jobs

 

Good luck getting hired on with them. I've tried, both in Raleigh and in Colorado Springs.

 

worked for wm for 7 years
some yards are union..some are not..it's a dirty job and u will have to do physical work obv (even traditional driver helper teams the driver better get out and help)

expect to work some long days..specially double and triple pickups during holidays

pay was 17-22 and hour when i last worked for em..so decent $$ with overtime

but be warned..management does not care about u..ur a number with em..don't mess up badly or ur gone in a heartbeat

if u have a residential route there is also the bonus of probable christmas tips..doing 6k houses per week can make those tips add up (hence the new cars u see around)

 

It also says on their website that many of their trucks don't have A/C. Don't know if it's true, but it's gotta suck in the summer time.

 

The WM I worked around had a mixed fleet. They will hold on to trucks 10 years or better and replace as needed. The newer ones had AC.

Some of these places it's who you know to get hired in. I've seen the boss ask drivers if they knew any good drivers when looking to fill a spot. Make friends with a WM driver helps.