truck driver

van driver

local driver

owner operator driver

Blackhawk Transport

Don't come here unless you're absolutely desperate. You get screwed on pay every single week. They hold miles from previous week pay and also don't pay you miles to travel to pick up a load. You only get paid the miles from the pickup point to the delivery point. It's a joke. Company used to be great but they've grown so much, they don't treat their drivers like human beings anymore. We're just tools. Lots of management changes over the past 3+ years. Been with them over 6 years on the same account and they've done nothing but take pay away due to "contract changes" that they no longer make the drivers aware of when those changes happen. You notice the pay and/or mileage decrease and ask them why, just to be told they can't discuss it with you & that it was a contract revision. Well, it affects my paycheck, so I deserve to know why. They claim to care, but you'll see, it's only during the holidays or covid or when they beg for driver referrals that they tell you how you're appreciated. Company is a joke anymore. I honestly thought I'd retire here when I started with them over 6 years ago. Now I can't wait to find something else. Tired of being talked to like garbage by the new dispatch folks & tired of the load being more important than the equipment maintenance. Don't bother trying to be proactive by getting something fixed that is wrong with your truck.. they'd rather you run the load & breakdown along the way so they can spend 5 times the money sending a wrecker to tow you. The company acts so penny wise, but is really very dollar foolish. No one wants to hear you trying to be proactive because it wasn't their idea first. No team atmosphere anymore, no one cares & always short paying their drivers. One of these days, a lawsuit for owed pay is going to wake them up & maybe they'll finally open their eyes and stop screwing drivers over by short paying them. I wish the company was like it used to be. Never had to worry about a single thing before all kinds of management changes happened. Do yourself a favor and don't come here. 

This place will suck the soul from you. You do a little extra to get management out of a pinch and they will always keep pushing more. If you don’t, expect to be punished. The turn over rate is horrible. In my employment here, I seen 20+ come and go. And it keeps going. They will fill you full of smoke. Don’t be lured by the sign on bonus. The day leads are pretty cool to work with. They take a lot from management. Which is why I have no problem doing what they ask of me. Management...... I don’t have nothing nice to say about them weasels at all. This place can benefit a lot if they put the drivers first. All they care about is their bonus. They need new management in the worse way. Biggest brown nose when corporate comes down. They keep them away from seeing the real problems. Let alone does corporate even care. We have expressed countless time to them and nothing has changed. You want to be punished for others mistakes? It happens here. You call in one day, they take your pto. Your earned pto(which btw is horrible, 150 a day). They threaten with write up. Which is so cute. Drivers hit things with truck all the time and they sweep it under the rug so corporate doesn’t know. No repercussions for any of it. They’re more likely to promote you to vp or ceo if you keep it up. That’s a drivers inside joke. The trucks are horrible. Governed at 65 and every safety device possible. It will lock up the tires on wet roads if someone pulls out in front of you. Yeah real safe. Half the time you don’t know if your loaded or empty by how slow they take off. Always has check engine lights on and abs 50% of the time. Don’t down them for maintenance at all unless something catastrophic happens. Even then they never come out right. They took breakdown pay away so drivers are always driving illegal cause well we have to make money for our families. But all in all don’t work here. Not recommended unless you need a temp job. 

When I first started off with this company, it was great. Somewhere I wanted to retire. The environment was great and everyone worked together. Things took a turn after upper management took hold of the account. They don't care. I've been put in dangerous situations, and it was still my fault. I was there for a great amount of time thinking it would get better and it didn't. They don't protect you even when you are 100% right. They make up reasons why you are wrong and gaslight you. I was ambushed in a meeting after being disciplined for something that wasn't my fault being told I had "road rage." I've had a gun pulled on me while driving and was told "maybe you scared the driver in the car." They don't care. Bad enough we were getting the hand me downs from other accounts, but we as a whole made it work. I worked my shift and helped others that wasn't even close to qualified to work the job. If you're looking for a place that has the driver's back, retire and have decent equipment,  this isn't it. No matter how much you prove you're not wrong, they will make you wrong. The hardest part of the job was none back then, now, it's management. They have killed the work culture we had and the enjoyment of a job that didn't require much but to just do your job and go home. Now it's a bunch of "managers" that's watched a couple of videos and read a little literature, that tell you as an experienced driver how to do your job. They also don't give decent pay to the drivers working their butts off.  Run as fast as you can from this company.

What is the best part of working at the company?
i was a yard switcher for Blackhawk and enjoyed my time with the company. The history of with Blackhawk being DADS hobby turned viable force in the trucking industry is endearing. My co-workers were as unified as a herd of cats but that as well is a strength of team work i felt while working for Blackhawk. The opportunities they have with many of their own special accounts may be just the thing you're l👀king for so check 'em out! NOW!🤗

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Like ANY other company it maaaay get busy keep on a steady pace check with your forklift operator if anything is PRIORITY and always have your pen you'll be fine 🙂 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Many different backgrounds and all of which worth getting to know. Many have been with our contracted company for many years to decades so not much comes up that they haven't already dealt with and a solution is easily reached.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Scheduling was a BIG draw i'm not sure what it's like now it was (4) 12 hrs days then (3) 12 hour days leaving a nice amount of free time at home. Learning the yard truck was a welcomed challenge too.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Drivers who I've worked with ,you have to keep up with your load pay administration will purposely leave off payment for load randomly other than that the job it's self was good, there are good med benefits, vacation time,and holiday pay which you can work on those days 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Making sure you get paid for your loads 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Trucks are slip seat driving, cleaning out the inside of tractor after last driver Left trash and dirty floors 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Show up for work,pre Trip truck and trailer if you find low tire just air it up,if tire needs repair, usually a two to three hours waiting for repair service to get the tire fixed, no pay for waiting, since your paid for loads you've lost one load waiting I wouldn't recommend working for this company due to lack of truck maintenance

What is the best part of working at the company?
They're like 90% of trucking companies in that they care nothing about you as a human being. I had to work all holidays on one of their local accounts unless it fell on my normal days off or be written up. Saturdays and Sundays were mandatory for me as well. Tell me a company like that cares about you. A trucking company running loads locally should tell their customers that our drivers are unavailable on Christmas and Thanksgiving, PERIOD. That's just one example. Want to go drive for them? Go ahead. Find out for yourself.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Their equipment was not properly maintained.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They are try to improve on this.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
It depends on which account you're driving.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They treat you like family. If you have any questions you can ask anyone if they don't know they will fine someone who does and ask with you so they can know too. They appreciate everyone in the company and not just certain ones like some company do. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
About the company nothing. Just the cars out on the road that doesn't care about their lives and cuts off a big trucks.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Family and friendly 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Driving down the road to make my pick ups and drops. Trying not to get into an accident with a 4 wheeler that doesn't care about their own life and cuts me off or get in front of me and hits their breaks because I'm going to slow for them or I didn't slide over when they was coming on the highway because they didn't see that I had another vehicle next to me so I couldn't slide.

I have been with blackhawk transport on the plant city contract for almost 5 years.
Over that time I have literally seen almost complete turnover of drivers several times. 
Work is fairly consistent.  Yes the plant does slow once or twice a year due to maintenance,  but load counts are pretty steady year after year. Due to the nature of our original contract the pat did not keep up with changes in the industry,  which has since been rectified,  but caused a shortage of drivers for about 8 months. 
My biggest issue, and that of many others is the 6 day per week schedule.  It has a tendency to burn drivers out after a year or so. Not the job for everyone, but a nice respite from the sitting at docks which is the norm at most van companies. 
Current management is pretty good. Supervisor was a driver on the contract before moving up and still gets in a truck when needed. Nobody will ask a driver to do something they don't do themselves. 


Pay was ok... could be more but it was enough to survive. the pay schedule sucked though (every 2 weeks). Operation manager in yard was a good guy... easy to talk to and fair. Truck maintained well (maybe due to manager in yard). My big issue was when upper management felt they could tell the drivers how a truck is driven. Company monitors speed and if your truck runs 5 miles over the speed limit in any area management starts calling your phone like you're on the news in a highspeed chase. Does this mean Im advocating speeding... not at all. But in certain situations the speed limit changes with no warning and that's how they "violate" a lot of drivers. But the crazy part is most of the drivers I ever talked to were having the problem in the same spots where the... but management obviously never put 2 and 2 together on that.

Decatur Branch Was great at first. Than new management came in and turned to trash. Signed contract for 8 hour shifts Monday-Friday. 6 months in they changed entire schedule to 12 hour rotating shifts. Management doesn't care about employees. Told us if we don't like it find a new job. Decatur office employees  all trash. They have no respect for the work we do. All talk negatively about employees all day long and smile in their faces. Don't believe them in orientation about going to management and HR about a conflict at work. If they like the person they'll twist what was said so they can fire you. If you go for this job, stick to your guns about your job duties and responsibilities. Helping out just gives them the audacity to expect it from you permanently. 

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