Working at Yellow Freight — Reviews by Employees

after working at there main terminal for 4 years as a manager, i was finally able to transfer to a out lining terminal. i was beaten down at ORD terminal by their 12 hour plus work shift. you had to show up 1 hour before for a meeting and stay 1 hour after for a post shift meeting. add in drive time, and it was a 16 hour day. and in the winter months, all the union workers would hide in the only place that there was heat, the underground bathrooms. the workers could warm up there, but heaven help you if you, as a manager was caught there. after going to Aurora terminal, i found that it might of been smaller, but it was just as bad. the tm would leave for the day around 11am for, as he called them, sales trips, but what it really meant was that he would just go hame and sit in his pool all summer long. in the winter, he would just go home. when he finally left, the RM, Frank, sent his asst John, who was going to lose his job, as the new tm. never even been on a dock. we fought from day one and it never stopped. bad pay and even worst working with this guy until the day i walked in and gave my 2 weeks noticed. then he was mr happy and nice. right up to my last day, he didnt think i was really going to quit. he yelled at me cause i left work early, 15 mins, after a 11 hour day cause my daughter locked herself out of the house. the kiss the butts of the union ppl and beat the managers to death. the worst job i have ever had in my life. anyone thinking of working there would be better off on unemployement.

Yellow now "YRC" welcomes you with open arms, then they start a file on you so they can fire you! This company at one point was number one most admired four years running? Those that determined this clearly have never actually worked here. Those few in middle management that are a pleasure to work for usually do not last or are abused by both sides to the point they become monsters. Words like integrity, character,ethics mean nothing to these people. They thrive on harassment and will lie at any cost to make sure you are under their thumb. Sometimes I wonder if they instill these types of traits on there children? I have never worked for a place like this that rewards the worthless yet hammers those that show up every day, on time and actually hustle. Lazy or crabby Teamsters are not born they are created by this type of environment. Morale since the merger is at a all time low and I feel sorry for those that came from Roadway, however sometime arrogant they seem to treat each other with a little more respect. The dispatchers take pride in trying to get you to break DOT laws and for those that know the law and wont bend usually are nickel and dimed with petty letters. This tactic is used so they can have a hearing on you in their kangaroo court. Guilty till proven innocent is their motto, this way they can string a man out for weeks or months at a time with out pay untill you get your job back. By this time, even if you are lucky enough to get back pay, the damage is already done. I have taught my son that doing the right thing is not always easy but working hard and protecting the customers freight that I handle thru driving or dock work helps to keep me motivated. I've taught him that character is seen when no one is looking. Here at YRC production comes first and at any cost, a distant second is the customer and dead last is the employees and safety. They will step over a dollar and pick up a dime to prove you wrong. Fifteen plus years later the only reason i'm still here is my responsibility as a parent and to my family!

Pay is good used to be the top of the industry till they came on seriously hard times. I feel the level of respect at the terminal I was employed at was excellent but I have hear horror stories about others. Benefits are top notch unparalleled by any company in the industry. The company is on increasingly unsteady footing, after five years never even getting close to being laid off I have now been off for almost 6 months, as far as being fired a union employee rarely meets this fate although it is quite common in management. The company is growing ever closer to a bankruptcy or complete closure. In august of 2005 a share of YRCW stock traded close to $60 currently it is in the $2.50 range.

Hours in operations are all bad, supervisors work 12-15 hour days regularly. Newly hired union employees will be on call, and forced in, with minimal notice working all shifts on all days. This company will hire from within but management has had to take some serious cuts over the last three years. They have locations all over the county for operations and management may be able to change terminals while keeping fringe benefits intact. Union employees can only move if there is a Change of Operations that necessitates relocation of work, then they would be subject to a seniority-based bidding process. This company, I believe has the most experienced and professional employees of any trucking company in business today. Their is virtually no turn over due to good pay and benefits, also they employ for the most part only qualified drivers to do all work. (most co's use underpaid dockworkers to the work inside the terminals). The work environment sucks it's dusty, cold, hot, filled with exhaust gas, the facilities are mostly run down and in need of maintenance but road bound equipment has gotten much better. This job is not for the faint at heart, or those that have soft skin it's a legacy union type environment, management a and union employees are adversarial at times.

I have worked almost ten years as a LTL driver, it's honest work, fair compensation for a fair days work. If you are going to be in this industry YRC/Yellow if they ride this recession out will continue to be a top LTL employer.

I worked Yellow Freight in the 80's. I have never experienced a work environment that still gave me bad dreams 20 years later. I was 22 year old girl without a degree. It took 3 years of being constantly threatened with being fired, sworn at over the dock intercom, told I had no potential, sexually harassed, and being on call 24/7, to find my self respect, and walk out. A literal physical assault by the TOM,and the ensuing witch hunt, caused me to wake up. But oh so many stories, I could name drop all night, but I'll save them for a rainy day. Let me close with saying this was the most abusive, pervasive, insidious and evil boys' club (dick's fair haired mafia)I have ever experienced. 20 years later, as a company president and ceo, it still makes my blood run cold to think about it. To the guy in a previous post who was accurately speaking about yellow having ruined roadway, please don't take it out on the yellow employees who post here. S__t rolls downhill, just like the newly decorated christmas tree richfield's TM threw down the stairs in a fit of rage.
thanks for the ear.

well well well, I see the a "few" Yellow employees here with some strong remarks...and where were you when Mr Zollers and his huge ego put your company in deep debt in order to purchase a much bigger better and all around better trucking company of Roadway? Where were you after that huge debt when Zollers bought the trucking company in China? adding yet more debt. He took a great debt free company like Roadway and ruined it out of pure ego. And when your little supervisors came into Akron with their noses held high in the air, acting like Yellow was better than Roadway, the figures came out showing who performed better Roadway. So..where were/are the teamsters now? You could have stopped this. I left Roadway 1 yr after Yellow took over. The place was stinking too much like Kansas, and the ill treatment of employees. Roadway people loved their jobs and their company, but after Yellow took over, we found out how crummy they treat people. Tell me is Zollers still your leader? He should be forced out.

I had over 30 years at Roadway, and Yellow is fully responsible for ruining that wonderful company.

You reap what you sow.... Then again who would ever locate their headquarters in Tornado Alley? That speaks volumes of the intelligence running things.

Thankfully I took a pension buyout while the money was still there, thankfully I cashed in my 401K while the stock was worth something.

The work envirnment is horrid. no breaks. No lunches. Work unpaid extra days. switch from working days to nights in the middle of the week. Work hours extend up an additional hour. Only thing that keeps me here was the check.

Job security: none. layoffs everywhere. Work/life balance? HA! Puking your guts out? Who cares! Get to work or you're fired. Career growth? not so much. You can go from being a pee-on to being a bigger pee-on. Location is decent, but not great. Co-worker competence? I think they've been scraping the barrel for the newer people. And as for work environment...as the saying goes..it's not who ya know but who ya...well you get the picture. We're moving to a new computer system that knocks us back about 5 years in technology. If you spend too much time in the bathroom you will literally get a phone call asking why. And don't even THINK about laughing because you will get a nasty email about being too loud. The only thing keeping me there is the paycheck. The benefits are ok, but I feel awful for the folks that are reaching retirement years, now that the pension has been stripped to nothing. Screamed at by customers because their freight is late, lost or smashed to bits, then screamed at by people at the terminal for DARING to ask for information about it. I know the folks have it rough at the terminals, but it sucks everywhere. Not enough people to take phone calls, then bitched at because there are customers waiting. Then EXPECTED to donate to the United Way every year. It's so irritating to book a shipment for $10,000 and not see a penny of it, but the EE rep for that customer's area will, even if they've never made contact with the customer. I hate my job!

I hate my job! If I could find something that paid more I would, but unfortunately for me that's not going to happen in the Bay Area! Haha. The best thing is that I am not a manager. They get so much BS it is ridiculous! Also- if you have EVER screamed at some poor person at the end of the phone in customer service for anything, SHAME ON YOU! Its 9/10 times not their fault!!! Yyyyeeaah!

I think Yellow treats there employees well, pays well, has top notch benifits and really gives you a sese of job security.