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Dedicated Logistics

A typical day at work consists of a lot of driving, at least for my route. I log about 300 miles daily before returning to langhorne. A big part of our job description is picking up any returns the dealerships may have so that General Motors will give them credit for those returned items. Most of the managers seem good at their jobs. The only issue I would have is a manager calling a driver and telling the driver he has to turn around and drive back to a dealership that was unloaded early in the day. In a situation like that, it could take a driver several hours to catch up to where they were when first receiving the manager's call. What I've learned in situations like these, it's better to just roll with the punches and the the job through.
  The hardest part of the job, as mentioned, is the fact that all drivers are paid salary no matter how long it may take you to finish your route. It is my experience in previous jobs where employees are paid by the hour, that those same employees just want to complete their work and go home. 
   I believe I would feel much better working for Dedicated Logistics if   they were able to compensate the drivers for their time. A 12 hour work day, only to come home to eat dinner and go straight to bed can cause some problems at home. Perhaps such problems could be overlooked if a driver was being properly compensated for his or her 12 hour work day. 
 A good lesson I learned early on while driving for Dedicated Logistics was not to drive fast and take chances. Seems like the several different drivers who had trained me not only drove in such a manner, but would expect me to incorporate their own driving habits.
 I would always say that a good driver can get into a safe routine and still finish his/her route as expected.
  The most enjoyable part of the job for me is the early morning deliveries to the shore points in the winter months.

The company itself is pretty good. My immediate supervisor was great. I could vent and he would listen and try to help me through it. I delivered auto parts to 11 dealerships with a 48' trailer during the night and early morning. The main issues I had were with the distribution center and some of the dealerships. The distribution center almost never got my trailer loaded on time and I was always running late. And some of the loads were a nightmare with either not being secured, out of sequence, damaged, too heavy for one person or all of the above. Some of the cages were packed as heavy as 1,000 lbs.! 
Some of the dealerships would complain about stuff no matter what. They were also horrible with keeping an entrance open for me to get my truck to the loading area. Cars would be parked all over to where I could not deliver at times. In the winter I had to shovel a path to the delivery door and throw down salt. That is, if they left any of that there for me to use, which many times they did not. Yet, they expected me to push a 500+lb. cage through ice and snow. 
I had to use a lift gate to load/unload parts and if it broke down, they expected me to unload the entire trailer by hand. I don't think so!
It paid well, but you earned every penny of it. 
They only trained me for 2 days and that is NO where near enough time to learn everything. Not only do you have to unload at each stop, you take returns, have to sign papers, use computer log book and use a scanner. I basically had to learn as I went and made a lot of mistakes, but they never hassled me about it. 
In the end, it was a few dealerships that started complaining about stuff and I was terminated. I was a faithful employee for almost 2 yrs. and after nearly 2 months after firing me, they haven't been able to keep anyone on that route. Wonder why.

This is seriously my favorite employer in 25+ yrs. In my time with the company, I've witnessed leadership identify and own areas that needed to change to improve the work environment and performance of the company. They have listened to employees and made several changes over last few years. 

Employees are rewarded for good performance. We have an employee recognition program that allows management and each employee to recognize coworkers with points every month and gives employees significant reward points for each anniversary and birthday and then points can be redeemed for goods. 

The CEO, as well as other members of management, have open doors for feedback. Nowhere else have I worked where the CEO put his personal phone number in the handbook and genuinely welcomes employees to reach out with concerns. We have standing weekly conf call meetings for all drivers, giving each driver direct access to leaders from IT, HR, Safety, Operations, Maintenance, etc. 

The #1 value for the organization is safety, ensuring that our employees, whether in the office, on the dock or in a truck are performing in a safe manner. In logistics, on-time delivery is a constant focus, however, no driver will ever be required to drive in weather conditions they deem unsafe. It is repeatedly said that our drivers "are the captain of their ship" and they have the authority to work with their operations leadership to ensure their safety and operational needs are still met in a timely fashion.


I was expected to pickup double trailers at beginning of shift and drive them down to distribution center. drop and separate the trailers....move dolly to reloaded trailers to drive back to allow delivery drivers to take. 
loved the job when they had me running out of Mansfield oh and driving to Fairfield oh every day...usually was about 8 hr day. then operations manager decided to change location to a poor area of akron in effort to "cut down" delivery drivers driving times. When running out of mansfield, the line haul operators and delivery drivers had roughly equal days spent. When they relocated to Akron, it extended line haul driver day by about 4hrs overall. What made it worse they were using equipment that was plagued with problems, that in some cases, werent legal for the road (but they used them anyway). 
They tried offering a pittance increase to me for extending my day, when i made it clear i didnt want to relocate the drop points. Due to the equipment being poor shape and if breakdown couldnt finish my day in time

this company will let you go without notice and all they are worried about is making money for their share holders and don't give a thing about their employees while working there I have seen them terminate more than several hardworking employees with no notice and not have a clue what the did but I caught them at their own game right when my position was listed AGAIN Never being told their was a problem with anything I did other than whining about a budget that was way below what was needed to maintain a fleet of 60 trucks. this company has no loyalty at all, has no integrity will not tell you what needs to be corrected to be successful. I was screamed at by the vice president then told sorry I screamed but the information still stands. so if you have any thoughts of working for this uncaring money first corporation decide against it.

When I first started upper management cared about their employees and would come out to the floor and be social and ask you how your doing and if we needed anything, a great place to work. Then everything changed upper management fell apart and new management came in and stopped caring about everything and everyone. They put more pressure on us the get stuff done but would constantly make us fall behind with lack of staff because they refused to hire anyone and they constantly kept putting more and more on us. Eventually it got to the point where management started to cut corners and started to get rid of people because of their age and health. If it tells you anything OSHA showed up twice while I worked there for safety concerns and when they showed up both times upper management ran around to try and get everything in order because nothing was up to code. Do your research before you apply here. 

Very poor training. I was thrown into a route on my own after only 2 ride alongs. Was expected to self teach with outdated scanners that dont work most of the time. It's obviously about being friends with the managers. There were guys smoking dope at work. There were guys who had accidents that kept their jobs because they were buddies or related to managers. They do not inform you to read up on the dot regulations so if you get pulled over or have to pull into a checkpoint you will get violations and they might fire you over it. Most of the guys there are only out for themselves and there is no team aspect. I didnt miss a day in 5 months. I caught the flu and they forced me to come in. Everyone got sick and they were allowed to take time off. Theres no benefits and they didnt even send me my 1099 and refuse my calls now. They have changed names many times for a reason.

If you want to work for a company that is based in MN and leases trucks from Hermans and trailers from CTS and want to deal with a dimminuitive subhuman being Nick Calafati than this is your place. Trucks have no proper decals on them, no lease agreements, etc. If you get pulled over you will go to jail believe it.  No future here and your job soley depends on the current company DLI to keep the contract with GM.  Nice pay and great hours but be prepared for taking freight to another driver and slip seating. Trucks are Volvo single axle day cabs and are never serviced. I went 9 months and not one time did I ever have a truck that went in for service. Its serviced when the truck dies and is towed thats it. Go see for yourself. Trucks in Albany are behind the old Yellow Freight terminal on Apollo Dr in Albany.

I just started with this company two weeks ago and not very impressed. I'm an experienced driver and had to go through their mentoring program to basically make sure I knew how to drive a truck. I was based out of the Oakdale, MN location. They want you to focus on safety and making sure the equipment gets inspected. A majority of their drivers (That I trained with) Don't even do a pretrip inspection. Equipment is very old and they don't have a full time maintenance shop or fueling areas. They get used trucks with 600,000 plus miles on them from GM or god knows where else. Consider them "Hand me downs" and the owner won't buy anything more decent. The trailers are a mess when loaded and you have to hand unload all the freight. Not only is it labor intensive and long days, They only pay you .37 cents per mile to start.

Day to day I was taking inbound calls from dealerships about logistical issues. Ranging from missing items, wrong items, missed delivers, and just general updates or messages for drivers. These were logged then investigated by our call center. 

Many of these cases required extensive research witch required quite a bit of diligence. Being able to quickly manage between multiple programs and tools was essential. We worked quite closely with management and together within our own department. 

During our downtime we often found other tasks in other departments to assist with. We were able to explore our own abilities to grow within the company.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 22 salaries reported	$1,566 per week
Local driver 45 salaries reported	$281 per day
Material handler 19 salaries reported	$20.37 per hour
Shuttle driver 7 salaries reported	$27.57 per hour
Freight handler 8 salaries reported	$18.06 per hour

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