Working at Renzenberger Inc — Reviews by Employees

I am a yard driver at ICTF in Long Beach Ca. I love this job. It puts food on the table, have met some great
people. It works for me.

This job has ruined my life for the last 9 months I worked for them. I finally got a better job driving trucks again. I was on unemployment and I stumbled across the job offering at my workforce center and it's nothing but a lie! They offered 10 dollars an hour for waiting and .25 cents a mile when driving plus paid vacation, when in fact they pay minimum wage, 13 cents a mile and paid vacation only if you're a high ranking manager. This company has reinvented and perfected wage slavery. You're forced to work 6 or 7 days a week because the company treats their people like garbage and it's impossible to keep people around to cover all the trips. The company short changes you by cutting your actual miles driven and not paying you the actual wait time you did. I get screwed out of about 60-100 bucks every paycheck because of it. They doctor your DOT hours so no matter how meticulous you keep your DOT logs (I'm an OTR driver), you're always wrong and you always get screwed. You're not allowed to have any sort of personal life because you're on call 24/7 and you have to be with your company vehicle at all times and they don't compensate you for being on call. You can only drive your company vehicle for company business, so don't even think of using it to run errands even though you still have bills to pay and groceries to buy and you have to remain with your vehicle at all times. The company always spouts "Safety First" which is a complete joke because you get reprimanded for refusing a trip when you're too sick, tired or busy to take a trip. They also use this company call Smith System that ignorantly states that all accidents are preventable. When in fact, the Smith System only works on paper and back country roads where there is little to no traffic to deal with. The Smith System falls flat on its face as soon as you hit the first signs of any traffic as no other driver out there practices these driving "skills." Even the Smith System training videos hardly brush anything close to heavy traffic. It always shows that idiot with the 70s gay porno mustache driving through rural roads and light traffic explaining how easy it is to use the Smith System. If that were true, I'd like to see that yokel handle bumper to bumper traffic like we have to. IT CAN'T BE DONE! You get your chops busted for even thinking of taking a little time off to handle personal errands or just get away from the constant demand of this sub par job for a day or two. The crews you transport are a bunch of prima donnas and feel it their duty to really rub in how bad you got it and cause nothing but problems. If you bring up issues to your supervisors or regional managers, you're either ignored or given a line of BS to shut you up. They could care less about you because you're nothing more than a faceless body doing a thankless job and to add insult to injury, they rip you off every payday just to show how little you mean to them. If given the choice between Renzenberger and being homeless, your best bet would be to live on the streets and panhandle. At least there's some dignity in that.

I've worked at both Walmart and Autozone and as bad as they are NOTHING compares to Renzenberger in being a joke of a company to work for. No matter how bad your job is now DO NOT quit and go to Renzenberger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I had to choose between working at Renzenberger and living in a tent I'm taking the tent. Renzenberger isn't even good enough to make this wedsite is how crappy they are.

I got the last laugh at this pathetic no wage (less than minimum wage), no ethics company though. I was on a run and knew Amtrak would be coming through (town) headed towards ( my home town) so I parked the van, left the keys in it, left it running and bought an Amtrak ticket home. Let them feel what it likes to be screwed over. The only good thing about Renzenberger, and to say one good thing about Renzenberger is being extremely generous, is it is walking distance (4 blocks) from my home. That is a good thing because working at Renzenberger you can't afford to drive a car anyway. Not and make your rent/mortage payment and buy food etc. Run as far away from this place as you can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From PA — 06/21/2010
Category Rating
Pay -5
Respect -5
Benefits -5
Job Security -5
Work/Life Balance -5
Career Potential/Growth -5
Location -5
Co-worker Competence -5
Work Environment -5
THIS COMPANY SUCKS ASS NO RESPECT NO LIFE OTHER THAN WORK THE RAILROAD HAS TO MUCH POWER THEY WILL ABUSE YOU THEY WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE HELL AND THEY WILL TREAT YOU LIKE SHIT THEY DONT CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO ..... THE MANAGEMENT .... THERES A UNDERSTATEMENT THERE THEY ARE THE WORST ONES THEY EXPECT YOU TO DROP WHAT YOUR DOING AND TAKE A TRIP TO WHERE EVER THE HELL THEY SEND YOU OR TO SOMEWHERE THAT NO OTHER DRIVERS WANT TO GO 1 TIME I WAS WITH MY MOTHER ON MOTHERD DAY EATING I GOT CALLED OUT TO GO TO A 5 HR ASSIST SO I WENT TO WORK THE NEXT DAY I DECIDED TO GO OUT WITH MY MOTHER FOR A REAL MOTHERD DAY MEAL I TOLD THE COMPANY THAT I NEEDED TIME OFF ALL WAS GOOD I THOUGHT BUT NO IN THE MIDDLE OF DINNER THEY CALLED AND WANTED ME TO GO ON A TRIP I SAID NO AND THEY HAD THE ONE MANAGER CALL ME AND BITCH AT ME BECAUSE I COULD NOT / WOULD NOT TAKE THE TRIP THIS COMPANY SUCKS ASS AND SHOULD BE PUT DOWN LIKE A WOUNDED ANIMAL

I just started and still don't know exactly how much I am getting paid. I don't like the lack of sleep, but I do enjoy talking with the train crews. They treat me very good and are very helpful when I don't know where to go. I wish all the dispatchers could speak clear english. I have had two who were worthless.

Renzenberger is an embarrassment to american business. They have zero regard for their drivers and are quite adept at cheating them whenever they can. My 16 yr old works at Mcdonalds and makes as much as I do. On call 24/7 and no idea when the phone will ring. The managers are lazy and slovenly. This company recently had to settle a law suit for cheating their drivers out of their overtime. Now they have given orders to eliminate it completely. Safety bonuses has been killed also. They are losing contracts at a rapid pace and if there is any justice they will be out of business totally in the near future. I say good riddance!

because of my boss she is not a good boss she cheats on your paper work she never around to pick up your check she sent me to other places to pick up my check i love my job and the bad think was she said you can take your lunch with a crew so that means i dont get a lunch and if you dont write it in you can get suspened if they try to hire me back i will tell them i will come back if you get rid of her she has been out to get me from day one sense she started working there now she got me a job on the up side on the road and she knows i cant go on the road

They treat you likr a bum and want you to to be a pro and no pay raise in 2yrs tet supervisors get one alweays

I've worked with Renzenberger off and on for nearly 4 years, both as a road and yard driver. The only thing that keeps me around is that the train crews are great and our local supervisor is a good guy who treats his drivers well. The job isn't that hard but you carry a lot of responsibility with the lives of others in your hands every day and must be constantly vigilant of safety in some very dangerous environments. However, you are treated very poorly and often be-littled by railroad and Renzenberger management and are micro-managed to death. As a road driver you literally have no life. Even if you work 40 or more hours per week there really are no "full-time" positions as there are no benefits befitting a FT job. They stopped raises and safety bonuses early last year, so pay stays around minimum wage forever; no hope of raises, vacation, paid holidays, etc. This could be a decent job, IF someone in upper management cared about the drivers; but they just don't, period. Driver turnover is very high as there is little reason to stay!

Yard pay is just above minimum wage. management is incompetent, and disrespectful. crews are mostly good people (I haul N.S. crews) coworkers are mostly ok. site is good for me. benifits are mostly nonexistent (medical that is too expensive and covers very little) as well as raises/bounses(stopped about a year ago).