Why Woodfield didn't work for me

Man I was thinking about you when I read this thread, I gotta go on your other thread to see what's the good word there. You still at home?

 

I was going to ask what happened at TNI?

 

I worked at Woodfield from 2019 thru beginning of this year and absolutely enjoyed being there. Would still be there if I didnt have to relocate and it unfortunately was out of their hiring grid. Had good miles, was always treated fairly. I really wanted to retire there but life as usual got in the way and lead me on a different path. Do wish I could go back though. Sorry you didnt have the same experience, but I would even venture to say they have been the best company I have ever had the pleasure to work with.

 

I went home Friday and left back out Sunday morning. Had some extra time on the load, so I just did a 34 at home. Heading back for my actual home time tm

 

Okay, here are my specific grievances with Woodfield:

1. When I had a hole in my air bag in Ohio and took it to a shop for repair, they refused the charge and made me drive to Texarkana (their preferred shop) to fix it, with no regard for my clean DOT inspection record.

2. When their bunk heater broke, and they wouldn't fix it for three weeks, and it damaged my guitar from extreme heat changes, they refused to reimburse me for the damage. And it still never got fixed.

3. They push Evangelical Christianity on everyone and tout their "toothbrushes for the poor children in Africa" crap while maintaining a very racist office with only 2 Black employees in a town that's population is 58% Black. They don't act like Jesus at all. They don't make things right when they do harm. Add this to the OP's "plantation" claim, because that's exactly how the place feels.

And I say that as a white person. It feels like a make-believe-Christian-run Plantation, and it's gross.

4. They promised i would be "off on the weekend," but once I was in the door, that meant I got 48 hours off from whatever time they parked my truck, starting on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday as they saw fit. If I parked at 2pm on Friday, they expected me to roll out at 2pm on Sunday. But there was no telling if I would ever park at 2pm on Friday or 11pm on Saturday. I couldn't plan anything on my weekends.

5. They exploit the sleeper berth split and expect you to work 16-18 hour days, 5 days a week, by having your 4 hours getting loaded "off duty" at Pepsi count as a "break." All this for an $800 paycheck at the end of the week? No thanks.

6. They hired me with the promise of guaranteed $1200/week pay. Their dispatch would have me sit around for 3+ hours after I finished delivering a load before they'd find me the next one sometimes. I figured it was their waste because I was making that minimum pay no matter how incompetent they were.

Then in March 2023 they announced they were ending the guaranteed pay program effective the following week.

Those Good Christians need to learn from Jesus' parable about the workers in the field getting paid a generous wage, instead of asking their employees to donate part of our meager paychecks at the end of the year to buy the Woodfield owners a Christmas present.

I immediately resigned in March and got a job with another company making $1500/week for a 5 day workweek with 2 actual, consistent days off every Sunday and Monday – and whenever I get home on Saturday, that's just bonus time off!