mechanic

local driver

customer service representative

diesel mechanic

maintenance assistant

Alaska-West-Express-Inc

What is the best part of working at the company?
Lynden is a very organized company. They offer great benefits and profit sharing. The people from the top down to the warehousemen are all great people to be around. They offer continued training to advance within company. I would highly recommend Lynden to anyone seeking a great long term career!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Unloading freight on Sunday making sure to stage it properly for customers to pick up Monday. It can get really busy at times and sometimes having to look through a container for a pallet that’s not scheduled for unloading until later Monday or even Tuesday can get stressful. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very friendly and helpful. Everyone I worked with were very friendly and supportive and will always help out whenever needed. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
8 am till 5 pm giving you an hour for lunch. Typically finish unloading containers and service customers. As you remove freight from the warehouse you need to shuffle freight to keep it ready for delivery or customer pickup. Helping the delivery crew by loading their trucks accordingly for scheduled deliveries.

Employee always excited to be at work in the morning to get their coffee and talk about their weekend and share about their hobbies and opinion. I have learned a lot from working there. To always pay attention to small details that could ruin the whole shipment operations.Safety is one of the most important thing in the workplace so always pay attention to forklifts and always wear safety vest and hard hats. 

My co-workers are people who I look out for and they look after me as well. They have been a great help from telling me all the details about the job and how I could I grow and learn more.

The hardest part of the job is when we're on a deadline and we're all busy so we all have to work as hard to commit our deadline.

The most enjoyable part of the job is when we all group up and talk about how we would handle the day as a team.

Lynden is a great place to work, or at least was. A typical day at work with Lynden makes you feel valued as an employee and that your contributions to servicing the customer actually matter.
I have learned the meaning of customer service and commitment to the customer experience cannot be beat. Management is in a tailspin at present, misdirected in regard to disregard for long-tenured employees. There seems to be a deliberate attempt to remove employees with the company for more than 10+ years. The owner remains silent with regard to what is going on, and I fear for the future of this great company.
Great people work for this company, but many more used to. The hardest part of the job was dealing with management, but the people you work with from corporate to the local stations are cream of the crop.

80 hours in 8 days, the legal limit in Alaska. You will work and work, unless you are dying, you will work. You will learn, by trial and error, or get fired. I learned more in my 3 years at LTI than I did in the previous 15 years elsewhere. I have never been fired from a job in my life; it almost happened here. And I almost quit a number of times; eventually I did quit, but not until I felt I had mastered the job, and was ready to move up. Which I did. It is a hiring and firing mill. If you need money fast, and you need experience you will get that here; but you may lose all your friends and family; because you won't see them. Also they don't pay well. Get what you need from them and move on. Also-management is antagonistic to union members.

Lynden Transport is one of Alaska'a largest Freight Companies. Offices throughout the state of Alaska as well as Washington and Oregon.

My focus was on Customer Service. Unfortunately that was not everyone's focus. Dispatchers could be surly and unreasonable, with customers and employees. Customer Service Managers were not authorized to give the CSR's the needed training to make them successful. Customer Service Director was satisfied with minimal training and an "as good as it gets" mentality.

Freight was lost, trailers were lost and there seemed to be no follow up. Supervisor's were not held accountable for their responsibilities and employee moral was low.

Morale is rather low with everyone, it seems.  The work is too much for the number of employees.  Someone quits and does not get replaced.  We who remain must take up the slack.  

One time, dispatch told us we had to go on a certain trip that left early in a weekday morning.  We were off that day (scheduled) and so made a doctor appointment.  We did not go on the trip but I felt threatened enough that I contacted a lawyer about my employment rights in a case like that.  Yes, they can fire me and yes, I had recourse.

Goals: how do I achieve goals when this very qualified person can’t get a promotion?  The other applicant, who is way less qualified, gets the job.  After all, I am in my 60s and he is under 40 with a family.  Advancement for some of us?  What a joke!!  Agism and nepotism really suck for those of us on the opposing end…

Its a  place for retirement. Very old technologies still used here.  Dont come here unless you are at the last stage of your career. You will forget all your learnings in here. 95% people work here are from  families and relations as this is family owned company. Outsiders feel like stupid here as there is no transfer of knowledge or any standards or documentation. You will feeli like you are trapped. Some people join here and leave within 2 days. Well educated, experienced person is absolutely not required to work here, you should know how to eat time. Management spends lot of time planning & plan on how to plan  and bad execution of projects. 75% of the work is always rework. No body is technically efficient to assess your work.

Burien-they expect you to learn systems in 1 week and overload as much info in your brain in that amount of time. If you cant learn that fast, they fire you. They say you will handle one account but then give you another. I learned that this company does not care about the well being of their employees. Only profit margin. I would not recommend this company to anyone.  Oh and dont let them taking you out to lunch on your first day entice you- it really is a second interview. Horrible company to work for. I had never been so unhappy at a job. A typical day is your manager checking in on you every hour and telling you what you did wrong. Training was horrible

Alaska Marine Lines is family owned company on a private port in Seattle. They are a barge company to and from Seattle to Southeast Alaska and Central Alaska. The benefit plan here is great, maangement is excellent and you couldn't ask for a better working environment. Everyone looks out for everyone and even though there are some tough times here during the summer months, I am glad to be apart of this company. They take pride in their customer service and are always looking for ways to improve themselves to better help the customer. 

I was the Operations Supervisor and in a typical work day I oversaw all operational duties such as freight routing, warehouse management, quoting shipments to clients, increasing productivity and profitability, tracked shipments and communicated shipment status to clients.
Lynden is the cornerstone for my career in the freight world and working there gave me a comprehensive understanding on logistics and operations management from the freight forwarder perspective.
The best part of my job was navigating time critical shipments to destinations throughout the country and delivering within the client deadlines while monitoring cost.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Mechanic 31 salaries reported	$41.83 per hour
Local driver 10 salaries reported	$33.67 per hour
Customer service representative 12 salaries reported	$26.20 per hour
Diesel mechanic 18 salaries reported	$46.06 per hour
Maintenance assistant 1 salary reported	$22.50 per hour

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