truck driver

BUTLER TRANSPORT

What is the best part of working at the company?
They make you pay for your drug screening out of your check and you don’t get paid for orientation until you’re on the truck with your trainer plus you only get $114.29 per day regardless of how many hours you drive to complete your requirement of 160 hrs of training. Overall you’re making them money while training and struggling to survive while out OTR. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Knowing that your entire paycheck is going towards food for the 3 weeks you’re on the road and not being able to take care of home while out.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Pushy, immediately hiring with no interview.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Working as expected but the pay lingers in my mind while driving like I’m being used for their financial gain.

I've been with Butler for 5 months almost 6 and have made only 1 $1300 check. I've proved that I can run my butt off IF they provide the miles. They don't though. They've capped me on miles so how can I become a top driver? Start at 39c a mile plus 13 cpm per diem which is horrible and makes it difficult to acquire the 60000 miles you need to obtain a raise. They make it seem like if you stay out longer you can make a bigger paycheck but that's false. It hasn't been totally bad but it hasn't been great because they weren't transparent about a lot of the driver benefits. It's a good start but nowhere to stay for a driving career. Insurance is expensive, no 401(k), layover pay is hard to obt, and not a lot of miles. I'll be moving on soon. 

I can't say for everyone who has worked there or is about to, but
my experience was highly stressful. I had a terrible trainer, as this
was my second company. The trainer I had would intentionally go
out of his way to make the experience as stressful as possible at
every turn. It could be the luck of  the draw on who I ended up getting,
but the one I had was total control freak.

To my understanding while driving with them, this company has a
high turnover. Butler might OK for seasoned drivers with more than
2 yrs. exp. Maybe. I don't recommend if you are a new driver.

What's more, they will deduct from your pay the transportation and
lodging for orientation/waiting to get a trainer assigned you if you
are there less than 90 days, as happened to me.

A typical day at Butler is that you are driving a lot. And getting to see places you never seen before. I learned a great deal during my training which was extensive and detailed with a focus on parking ,backing, logging your stops as well as city and mountain driving. Management is there if you need them but pretty hands off for the most part, I was never micro managed. The hardest part of the job is being alone without your family which is really hard. The best is part is the views out the window and sometimes the pay.



dispatchers don't care about the drivers nor understand what it takes to effectively transport freight. Neputism runs high here. If you're not on their favorites list you will not get consistent miles, raises, bonuses or pay. Safety personnel frames drivers and pin incidents on them to cover their rear-ends. They will have you switch loads with a driver to get a driver home time completely ignoring your desire to be off and home. Trucks are substandard and are always in the shop with a mechanical issue to be new equipment. All members of personnel are disrespectful to their drivers and also take them for granted.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Good starter truck driving company 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Getting drivers home on time when scheduled, picking up loads days after scheduled and expecting them to deliver as originally scheduled 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They will play favorites with the drivers, they will schedule you for loads and won't take into account scheduled home time 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
For the most part, things go relatively smoothly on a day to day basis: delivering your load, receiving your next load, picking it up and going on to the next delivery

What is the best part of working at the company?
My dispatcher wasn't a bad guy, but he was new

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The equipment is kept in bad shape/is old. Orientation is also very poorly developed and run. Lots of don't worry just sign it. Should've been a bigger red flag

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very right wing. Kind of racist. Not very kind or understanding 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Everything was pretty standard trucking except when it came to orientation and to maintenance of the equipment. Then it was awful.

I scraped a fix object on side of my bumper. Less then $300 to replace. I was willing to except full responsibility in paying for it. Safety refuse and report it on my DAC report as a preventable incident(That's on my DAC for 10yrs). Someone busted my window while I was asleep in my truck. Safety report it on my DAC as a nonpeventable. I got stuck in my yard, had to get it towed 10ft. They billed me and it was reported on my DAC as a preventable incident. They will not warn or talk to you of what's going to be reported on your DAC until it's too late and your fired.

I’m kind of biased about this experience they flew me out paid for my hotel. They had a sign a lot of papers without having the opportunity to read them and if you can’t make it through training as expected, they confiscate your paycheck from you to pay for the cost of the flight and hotel stay I highly recommend making sure if you do pursue this, that you be mindful of who you’re going to be trained with because it is a 3 to 4 weeks. And if you don’t think you can get along with him at the beginning due to anything as simple as smoking a cigarette, then make sure you pick the right person because it will wind up costing you the opportunity to be employed. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Great work relationships with colleagues good shippers and receivers would love to go back someday

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Driving rig for me was the less stressful part of the most stressful part was trying to find locations but I always made my deliveries on time

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Great communication with a great bunch of people

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Drive and sleep deliver loads on time most of your loads were drop and hooks

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