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Works really good. Supervisors are good except some can be drama with attitudes. If the weather's good always expect good work week. Times we get alot of hours and sometimes just 40-48hrs per work week if good weather but slow work. Then if bad weather expect 02-40hrs a week which is peanuts paycheck. Hard to get raises or promotions. Be nice if employees could make suggestions to make work better place and more productive with their ideas. With my job not only could I do mine job but I could operate equipment at times, do mechanic work and help with the asphalt paving side of the operations etc. Loved working here doing what Im doing and loved the times we worked 70hrs+ a week. Hardest part of the job is no communication, then when there is communication you get a** chewing or attitudes and get the blame, nothing to do besides suck it up and keep doing ur job. Then paperwork ain't so bad as long as people don't start changing your own paperwork routine and sheets and change one sheet record into 4additional sheets for records. When you ask about wages you get I don't know answers but seems like family get higher wages and benefits of company vehicles and job title advancements.

As a scale operator, I would drive out to remote gravel pits to operate the scales, weighing the trucks as they went in and out to record how much material they were hauling. This required me to get up very early in the morning, as I had to drive upwards of an hour at times to reach job sites and have them open around or before sunrise. Fortunately, you receive drive time compensation, as any time spent driving for the job is counted as time worked for your timecard. The work itself wasn't terribly difficult, as I spent most of my time recording weights and numbers on rather old computer systems. The most difficult part of the job was the long hours, and I would work anywhere from 60 to 70 hours a week, starting very early in the morning. However, the benefit of all this is that you'll receive large amounts of overtime pay, making it all worth the trouble!

What is the best part of working at the company?
They started off working around my schedule as a single dad. But this year I was shuffled around to the worst equipment because I wasn't able to come in earlier until my kiddo was out of school. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lower paying very much a "good ole boy" mentality. 
Always being sent into the tightest situation to dump under the knowledge that if you make a mistake and cause any damage you'll be sent home without pay for 3 days or fired for my d.o.t. violation. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's all about getting loads dumped. They don't care about how many successful loads you complete. Only hear about any mistakes you make.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Pretty decent usually. Just be perfect.

Management at the Billings and Livingston yards is the worst. The gravel leadership has absolutely no integrity whatsoever. The management fails to follow their own written guidelines where accidents and injuries are concerned. Enforcement of written policy is subjective to who you are in the organization. If you value your CDL and refuse overweight loads, you won't last long. If you trust that the dispatch will send you to a location that your vehicle is capable of delivering to, you better look before you go.
  The company makes you sign a policy statement that prohibits cellular phones in their vehicles...another policy they do not enforce, nor do they provide any GPS alternative to get to the locations they're sending you out to. Overall, the 180 day probationary period is rarely achieved by new hires due to the problems in the department.

The management is terrible! The boss expects you to know how to do everything;even though when you are hired they are happy you don’t know anything. If you have a 7 o’clock start time you are expected to show up 45 minutes early to just stand there and watch your boss explain how he is tired - and you don’t get paid for the extra time. The asphalt boss is so full of himself that he leaves at all hours during the shift to kiss butt with the manager then comes back and sit on his butt on his phone doing absoluly nothing while you are somehow supposed to find something to do with out any training! The crusher boss is a joke as well - has the personality of a walnut - everybody out there is close to being alcoholics - if you are not part of the “good olboys club” good luck doing anything. It’s a joke - stay away.

The company as a whole is a great company to work for. Able to put in long hours 7 days a week weather permitting. My superior was a great person to work for . He made the environment fun while also getting the project done. Ii was able to perform all kinds of tasks and was able to perform these tasks without micro management. Enjoyed the different task assigned to me. Upper management asked for me to add Hazmat endorsement to my CDl and the company would give me a descent raise. I agreed and attained the endorsement but upper management gave me more duties to perform but backed out on the raise.

This job would suit somebody who doesn’t mind working long sporadic hours that can vary from 8 hours one day to 14 the next. You get your schedule for the next day in the afternoon everyday and your start time can vary from 2 am to 8 am. Sometimes you are even put on a night job with no prior notification. You’re just expected to show up when they schedule you. You’ll get good hours here and make “easy money” as the other drivers like to say, but I’d be a liar if I didn’t mention my family life/time has suffered immensely since working here. If you are solo and like to work work work then you’d be a great fit here. If you are looking for work/life balance, do not apply here. 

I enjoyed working as an operator there. The company always kept me busy and let my run different equipment when there was a shortage of operators. I learned to plan ahead with new locations on the job site. My boss was always encouraging and telling how i could do things better with his past experience. All my coworkers were always there to help one another out. The hardest part of my job was keeping up with three crews i had to keep up with in different areas of the job. The most enjoyable part was running all the equipment.

I worked at fisher for about three years,  during that time I witnessed very poor management and a very large turn over rate.  Mostly due to the fact that nobody would change from the old way of doing things to the 21st century, where employee's have rights and should not be judged by whether your supervisor likes you or not to keep your job.

  No willingness to work with employees to retain them, you felt like just a number.

Work your butt off for 13 hours a day always in a hurry absolutely no communication management is only in it for themselves nobody knows how to move dirt always looking to place blame for things that go wrong management will down grade you be little you cuss you out blame you for their mistakes and problems very unhealthy work environment lots of favoritism goes on and very little room for advancement within the company

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