truck driver

local driver

driver

ECM Transport, LLC

It's a very boring job.  I'd say it felt a lot like being dead.  It had some pluses though.  I was never forced to work a weekend for the whole year while I was there.  I made real good consistent money for the entire year.  The insurance looked to be real good but definitely not the best. I picked some of their best insurance options and only insured myself and it costed me about 60 or $70 a week. You won't earn a single vacation day until you complete one year. However if you need to take a day off for an appointment or something it doesn't seem much is said about it but it will be no pay.  After 1 year you get a week and they paid that out in cash when I quit just after completing a year.  I worked flex time that varied about 3 hours each day and was notified of my start time the day prior everyday.  After year two you earn one week again. 3 years is 2 weeks and 10 years to earn 3.  The value of a job is relative to the alternative you have. It was a good bottom for me for a year after losing a forever job. It wasn't my dream job but I was glad I had it and I'm glad things were not worse.  There's certainly a lot worse jobs out there so I'd say it wasn't grade A but it might have been something like B minus if I had to rate it.  I mean that's what it was to me but of course it all depends on what a person prizes. I was home every night and was steady pay and it was doable I made good money it was worth something.  It took me an entire year before I found something that looked better.  I figured if you had something that was extremely prime you probably wouldn't be reading this but if you don't this might be the next best thing.



•A Typical Day At Work
Depending on location and how good of a driver you are to your dispatcher, you will be at work 10-12+ hours everyday.

•What You Learned
How to apply to other jobs

•Management
You really only talk to your dispatcher. I barely talked to him. My dispatcher tried to poke the bear every once in a while. 

•Workplace Culture
All the drivers were really nice. The people in the office think they know how to drive a truck.

•The Hardest Part Of The Job
Waiting for the receiver/shipper, they can take hours to load your truck at times. Sometimes you also have to wait an hour or more for dispatch to send another load after your deliveries. Dispatch/Planner will also try to send you super faraway and expect you to do more work. They sent me 5hrs away in a day cab and tried to have me do more work(reject that load). I guess they thought I had double the HOS. When I worked local for Werner, they would never make a local driver do extra PU/DELs when they are 5 hours  away from home because it’s not possible to make it home in time. ECM needs to get with the program. And if you’re local and you happen to run out of hours, they DO NOT get you a hotel, once again Werner would never. They clock out and go home at 5pm.

•The Most Enjoyable Part Of The Job
Getting your own truck, not being bothered, and my #1 enjoyable thing was clocking out.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There is no best part. Dispatchers come and go and our arrogant to the drivers. You don't get time and a half after 40 hours. All hours are straight time. Everyday a different start time. Between 4:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. never the same. It kills your sleep time. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Too many different start times. It kills your sleep time. Dispatchers sometimes can't count up to 14. 6-hour days at least three times a week. Not enough to pay the bills.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
No office at the drop yard. No indoor restroom. No porta potty. You have to improvise between trailers. Not a joke not a joke. Although we complained nothing was done. But they have one at their office. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Typically 6 hours. Really sucks really!!!! Maybe 10 or 12 hours once or twice a week. Dispatcher makes many mistakes.

They don’t pay overtime but expect you to work as much overtime as possible. They take a half hour off your time for 8 hrs and over 12 hrs they take another half hour even if you don’t take a break. Dispatch is constantly messaging you even though you send them updates every 1/2 hr they expect you to go confront the customers if they are taking too long to unload your truck instead of them calling the customer. They had me drive a truck from Columbus Ohio to Washington Pa with no back window due to a rock breaking it in the middle of December instead of sending me somewhere close to have it repaired. Don’t expect any respect from most of Dispatch or most of their supervisors. And don’t get sick before you get your insurance from them because they expect you to have doctors excuse even if you don’t have insurance.

What is the best part of working at the company?
None, Don't work there. Dispatcher is terrible, this was my worst mistake and horrible experience I have every had with a job. JOB  - JUST OVER BROKE. My dispatcher would do things on purpose just to make things terrible for you and others at the job, and upper management approved of it. Crazy, I don't know how I managed to stay there for 5 years before I quit.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dispatcher, I can't say no names but everyone knows even upper management.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Terrible,  I wouldn't recommend my dog to this company or its relatives 😕 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Nonsense and a joke, prepare yourself for the games especially on Friday

They give you decent miles but if you don’t take the offer for ot then they tend to cut miles. No time and half pay. All straight time. They don’t tell you about straight time at all. When you’re in the middle of orientation is where you have to digitally sign and agree to straight time pay. By that time you’re committed. Dispatch and the company as a whole really doesn’t seem to care about you. You’re just a number and a butt to fill a seat.. as an ECM driver you are looked down upon by Pitt drivers whom they share terminals with.. orientation is a virtual joke and you just get thrown in a truck and emails info is terrible. No night support at all.. you might as well be an OTR driver. Average pay equals around 45 cpm 2700 miles on a good week.

Great company to work for. If you do what’s expected of you you shouldn’t have any problems with anything. Benefits are decent. Most of the equipment is fairly new. M-F work week with variable start times. Usually start between 4-9am and work to about 2-7pm. Usually get about 12 hrs off a night. Some weekend work. Although not required. This job works for me. Keeps me busy. I hardly ever talk to dispatch. We communicate through the computer in the truck. Which I see as a good thing cause to me that means you’re doing what’s expected. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Used to be lots of hours. Now it's just barely getting by. 60 plus before and fighting to get 40 now.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not enough hours which equals less pay regardless of hour much your hourly pay is.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Favoritism with who the dispatchers like. If the driver isn't working then someone in the office isn't doing their job.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Used to be 12 hour normal day. Now it is take a load out to deliver, reload back to the yard and call it a day. Some drivers are only getting 4 hours a day.

i was with e.c.m  for  7 months  i was  hired for a 2 pm to 2am job left my other job went to pa  an  was told it was a mistake  an could run from 6pm to 6 am  i said i gotta work   was ok at first  then every week my truck  was  a rental  or a old junk volvo from m.c.s  finaly get a ecm newer truck an the brakes where  out of adjustment an   they acted like no big deal  the thing that pushed me over the edge was my wife couldnt get a hold of me on the phone for a family emergency  she talked to my disbatcher an has it recorded on her phone he didnt even contact me  not on the qualcom or by phone witch was it as in we had a no phone policy in place there

Quit a job over the rd driving to be home more was told before I got hired 50 to 60 hrs a wk with a 55 average and it's a very hard struggle to get 50 a wk take your time and be safe and drive speed limit and you are questioned why it took so long they are liars here dont expect to come here and get 60 hrs a wk and make what you think your gonna make been here a month and looking for a new job already and the planning is very poor never know what your doing the next day till that day when you call in not like they getting all the days loads overnight could be better planning 

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