truck driver

dispatcher

customer service/data entry

shop technician

Davis Express

An ok company to work for, if you live by yourself. Home time is short. Your 48 hours off start as soon as you log off your Qualcomm. Seven days on and two off is just a slogan. You get to go home when your driver manager allows you to. That's if they are not being vindictive. If you get on their bad side, its low miles for you!
 The recruiter will tell you that you could average 2200 miles a week. It's more like 1600. They pay layover only after 22 hours. So expect to sit at least 18 to 20 hours behind a publix store or at any of the Tyson slauter houses waiting for a load or a dispatch.
Everything you're  promised as far as layover pay , detention pay or any of the benefits that they wave in front of you at recruitment time is hard to come by. If they do pay then it's retaliation time.
 Lots of sitting and low miles store runs with two or three stores that only pay $15 a stop. About seven hours worth of work. Then back on break. At a store of course. God forbid if you drive to a truck stop for a decent meal or a shower. Don't you dare break up your off duty break to benefit you the driver. Driver manager needs that time so you could get it back after your 7th day on duty. 
 Personal time is given at the will of your driver manager. They don't care if it's your little girls birthday or your love ones. Regardless hard to come by. I wasn't there long enought to even get vacation time. What's that !
  Health benefit are ok. Only you the employee gets them no family members. Family members get paid if you elect to purchase life insurance and you asign them as beneficiary and you die do to stress and lack of proper sleep driving at night. 
 I met a lot of good people at Davis. They will all sing you the same song. Low pay, low miles, lack of respect, no driver input and no advancement. Need to watch those that kiss the hand. You know the inner circle, the only ones going anywhere and making some decent revenue. 
 They will rob you of your life and steal your soul and at the end you're left with nothing.

Pay is good, never had a problem with it. Routes are easy and somewhat predictable. Zero pre-planning, so it’s always a guessing game on when to get sleep. Sometimes it’s a 10 hour break, sometimes it’s an 18 hour break. Wreaks havoc on sleep. 

If you live near the yards things are easier, but if you have a ways to travel to get to the truck for it can be annoying. 

Plenty of time on the loads, so in those 18 hour break days where you’ve been up for 8 hours and then they give you that load “YOU GOTTA GET GOING NOWWWWW” like it’s a surprise to them you have plenty of time to pull over and take a nap somewhere. That’s good. I would have preferred to know 18 hours ago that I was taking an 18 hour break so I can plan my sleep better though. 

Not sure why I’m still working here though. I can get the same pay doing a local gig. I might switch it up soon and get a job that pays the same but gets me home every day. 

The president and vice-presidents were good people. However, managers were allowed to treat their staff however they wanted to. My department manager treated my coworkers and I like idiots. We were belittled on a daily basis for things that were honest mistakes while the DM sat behind a desk reading emails all day. Our DM would constantly try to stir up drama between the people in our department and would tell all of our personal business to the other people in our department when we weren’t at work. Staff was constantly reminded that we were expendable and no one ever got a pay raise. I worked with people who had been loyal to the company for 9+ years without a single raise. The money isn’t worth the anxiety you get just from pulling into the parking lot each day. 

There’s a reason for the low miles. Ran good miles in the beginning, 3500 to 4200 miles in 7 days. But the miles where slipping away. You spent a lot of time sitting just under the required time needed to resceive layover. Then the 1800 mile club began. Week after week same thing just new stories about why there are no miles.  Only a certain crowed received over 1800 miles. It didn’t matter what you did if your not one of the good old boys, no miles for you. 
 Speaking of layovers, driver managers where cute. Dispatch you after sitting 18 hours and send you somewhere to wait a couple hours before delivery just to break up the break.  I believe if the owner knew about this he would of done something about it. I didn’t stick around to find out. It had potential, just wasn’t one of the cool kids.

I didn't leave Davis Express either time, because of issues with them. The 1st time I left was because I thought I could be home more and make decent money hauling fruit here in Fl. The second was due to my father passing away and I had made him a promise to come off the road to help take care of my mom & his house in the event something happened to him first. The management likes to micro manage a little bit much, but it's not too bad. The hardest part for most people at Davis to get used to  is dealing with Publix all the time and running mostly at night, then during the day when you the driver needs rest, the day shift has a habit of waking drivers for messages that can wait until your break is over. This too was not so bad, just hard to get used to for many.

If you like to push yourself and run hard this ain't really the job for you this is a nice gravy laid-back job 6 days out 48 hour home time most days drive 6  to 8 hours you sit around in your truck for almost 18 hours a day 3-4 days out most of our loads are dropping hook they fight you for layover and detention so don't bother if you ask for an extra day off or need a day off they're really nice about it average miles a week 2000 to 2400 approximately $1,000 take home every week for me I've been here for one year . They do a really great job on keeping the equipment up to date so If you been driving a while you want a nice easy job this is a great easy job and the people are nice

What is the best part of working at the company?
The customers were the best and only good part of this company. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
If you have a disability or a chronic health condition, no matter if you're never late and have never called out in months, the moment you have a bad day and need medical treatment, it will be retaliated on. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's terrible if you don't stay to yourself. Worse than high-school. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I tried to just get there early, clock in, do my job and pick up the slack of the people who don't, get confronted about things that were not my responsibility to begin with, get said things done and try to make it to the end of the day without seeing the manager again.

7 days regional driving 2 days home like clockwork.  This was my first company out of trucking school and was pleased to see many older drivers working at the company that had been there for years - a good sign for me as a noob.  I feel I got lucky after hearing from my classmates’ experiences with other companies.  Dispatch was superb, and worked with me for days off.  I parked very close to home since no terminal nearby.  The routes were long and reliable but changed enough to be interesting at times.  If my family didn’t complain so much about being gone 7 days I would have stayed with this company until i was old and grey.  

great place to work over all but...they do run around the clock mostly nights ...unless you love working nights and tell them that then they stick you on days mostly. they know you by name not by driver number . always drop and hook for the pick ups and live unloads for the delivery for the most part. they do get you home when they say they do witch was awesome some times a day early but 48 hours off is 48 off witch means if you come home lets say you finish Friday at 5pm your due back Sunday at 5pm ! for the most part. they do call you to let you know if you do need to be there at that time so its not a wasted trip to come in but i did spent a few times wasted waiting ready to go when they said to be ready only to stay home another day and that day was wasted thanks to that 

People there are nice but they are your typical trucking company when it comes to home time. Seven days out mostly sitting around making nothing and 48 hours exactly of home time from the point you leave your truck at their terminal to the point you start does not include travel time. They micro manage your every move telling you when to drive when to stop where to stop you're not a truck driver here you're a robot and the second you have a major accident you're gone even after 12 years of loyal service. They just don't care about their drivers just the money they can make off of you.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 2 salaries reported	$188 per day
Dispatcher 1 salary reported	$51,000 per year
Customer service/data entry 1 salary reported	$32,500 per year
Shop technician 1 salary reported	$17.00 per hour

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