logistics supervisor

truck driver

diesel mechanic

fleet maintenance supervisor

dispatch supervisor

Florida Rock & Tank Lines

At Doraville, 12 hr+ shifts 5 days a week for a log total of 60-70hrs a wk. Thats for around 30k/ yr before tax. You're supposed to share a truck with a shift partner who works the opposite 12 hr shift. Heres the deal, they will over dispatch you no matter how fast you go (They dispatch you to speed, yet will spy on and may possibly fire you if you try to cut corners). So, your assigned truck may not be there when you show up for work because your shift partner has it because he's going over his 12. Since you get paid by the load, you are there for free waiting for the truck. Most likely, the dispatcher will tell you to take someone else's truck and tanker. So when the driver for that truck comes he won't have it and takes another truck, and so on and so on... 
 You may pre trip 3 truck/tanks a day, (for free) each with different quirks to function - some need quarters to shim the sensors on the hose connectors while loading to get a green light, others have strange things that I never figured out preventing the trailer brakes from releasing - on a gas tank they won't release if a hose is hooked up or a cabinet is open for safety reasons, so theres 50 ways something secret may be causing your borrowed tanker from moving. 

Their tanker trucks have inadequate equipment on them and the ability to get it is negatory. Tankers have different capacities so if you get another's tanker, and it has a slightly less capacity, you may go load and shut the whole loading rack down due to hitting an overfill sensor. Every truck/tank combo has its own quirks. .. get ready to memorize them all at Florida Rock, Doraville. 

P.S.: Don't live more than 25 mins from the terminal or you will suffer prematurely from exhaustion and sleep deprivation. (you'll suffer those anyway even if you live at the terminal, but living more than 20 mins or so away will bring that suffering on stronger)

There is lots of reasons to join Florida rock and tank. One of them being Day 1 healthcare out of training, 401k match either right then or very soon after. We have low deductible health care plans and your choice of higher deductible plans if you are healthy this would be a great play if you open up an HSA plan and contribute to the max and invest it for later down the road (take current tax savings now and all invested will earn tax free and then after 65 (I think) you can use that account like a normal Roth IRA)  We have extremely affordable life insurance and ad&d insurance. I wish there was a way that employees could obtain equity in the company though stock options of some sort. (not the typical 10% off the current market rate however maybe 10% off the lowest share price traded in a quarter?)  There are tons of new trucks and trailers either already at the terminals or are being built. At least where I work the mechanics are more than willing to fix anything that needs to be fixed. One major concern to me before I started was if the trucks had decent a/c. Every single last truck in our yard as far as I personally seen will freeze you out of it so that's awesome! The dispatchers and Manager are there to support you and they know that the truck drivers are key to making the operation successful. Ultimately we are the deciding factor of a load getting completed and our company getting paid. I would like to see higher pay for certain loads or have an hourly fee if the drive takes longer than "normal". Overall it's a great company to work with if you want to be home everyday or night and off 2 days in a row. Safety is important here too.

Company has great benefits after 90 days. However you are paid by load which is calculated by miles. I believe its as crow flies after looking at my statements. Anyways some equipment was good, other was beat up. Drop nozzles and hoses always stolen from "assigned" trailers due to they wouldn't buy enough to go around.
Dealing with public very dangerous, people so unaware you are driving 8000 gallon bomb dropping into 20000 gallon tank. Had cones out and lady almost ran me over, people flipping cigarette buts at you on highway, even had BBQ grill (large pro model) on trailer pull in front of me blowing huge flaming chunks of wood out exploding into more all over highway, people dragging chains sparking everywhere, bums try and walk through your drop site smoking etc...VERY DANGEROUS. Hours  were horrible, start around 6 PM go to 6-8 AM nights and all weekend. They did however put your days off together so you get 2 days in a row like Tuesday-Wednesday so that  was good. Forget about having a life or even getting your 8 hours sleep though. Super long hours!! Worse thing was pay. Take your hours average of 65 a week and divide your Gross pay by the hours you will be somewhere around $11-12 hour to endure all the above.
NOT WORTH IT TO ME!! The actual work is not that hard and I maintained a very good pace loading, driving and delivering but is more thinking and being aware. Dispatch was pretty good at picking up phone most the time. Their are worse out their but definitely better even in this economy!

didn't get paid sick leave.didnt have choice in my work schedule.hard to get weekends off.some drivers drove about 400 miles a day.seems like office people came in about 9 a.m. but left by 3 p.m. but some drivers worked 60 hours and more in a week.60+ hour weeks to much.didnt seem like a driver could ever move up out of the driver seat.felt like social security number should not be used for passwords or driver id numbers.didnt seem like there was education or training.pay by load and some drivers seem to get the better pay loads more often than some other drivers and that made it dog eat dog.pay didnt seem like it was enough for the long hours and labor.need a strong back because labor is physical.some drivers got different truck and trailer a lot.sometimes had to wait for truck and seemed like there is not enough trucks.work outside in all type of weather.some drivers seem sad and disappointed.some drivers want honesty from office people.seemed like driver got less respect than office people get.driver should be paid $30 hour.when driver has premium or diesel plus unleaded driver should be paid extra for each extra product they got to drop.need to let driver say when they want to work and how many hours they want to work.driver need more paid vacation.driver need a way to move out of the driver seat.too many rumors going around and made it feel like high school.all this how I feel anyhow.

FL Rock bought out the company i used to work for ,Pipeline Transportation. An offer was made to all Pipeline drivers and more than half of the drivers left the same week the buyout was announced. Those that stayed were promised nothing was going to change in the next 90 days, less than 15 days later all changed. Drivers that stayed took a $250 a week pay cut just to have a job.

Fl Rock in Orlando,FL is considered "the learning company" They hire anybody because nobody wants to work for such a low weekly pay for long hours. Drivers that have no fuel experience will start here and after the completion of training then they will apply for the company they really want to work for and leave.
Dispatch is either done from Tampa or Jacksonville and most of the dispatchers have no experience not only of the area  but the drivers and dont care how far or close the customer is as long as they move the load ending with the driver on the road for 10 or 13 hrs and making $100 for that day.

Dispatchers have there favorites so if you are not in that list you will get the bottom of the barrel loads that dont pay much.

In overall FLR is a good company to start and get experience with and then jump to a more secure and better paying company. They supply uniforms but no boots, pay is really low for the fuel industry. Take home pay around $600 for a 60 hr week.
At the end you make more an hr at Mickey Ds that you do here.

I was hired at the Chattanooga, TN terminal August 2016 after 2 years OTR with another company. They told me training would be from 4-6 weeks. I made plenty progress despite the fact that I felt poorly trained. For example, my trainer would just do the loading and unloading without baby stepping me through the process or even talking to me period, so therefore if I didn't ask questions I wouldn't know anything. Once I started to catch on and do the job myself, he made me feel like I was being rushed. He stood over my shoulder every second which is annoying. He also did 95% of the driving. But eventually I still learned a lot, I got evaluated and carded at 3 facilities successfully. At the end of my fifth week, I got evaluated by another trainer (we did 1 load). So I thought I was good and was about to get assigned a truck. The next day the manager sat me down and terminated me. Said I wasn't "a fit for the company". Which I believe is not a logical reason. I tried not to pull a "because I'm black" card, but if I'm going to work everyday on time and making progress, told that I'm making progress weekly, conducting myself professionally and well groomed, then I don't understand the problem. And even if they felt that I wasn't ready then just give me another week or 2 of training! Now I'm back to square 1 unemployed with bills and a newborn.

A typical day can be very busy and getting ahead early is to my advantage. First i make sure everyone thats supposed to be working is here. If they are not then phone calles are made to customers and management explaing the details. This will prepare for later when and if loads are not delivered on time. Usually a driver is only running late and this is not great but better than no driver at all. Then i make sure a loads are running as scheduled and check levels for my most critical sites.This can be like a puzzle and sometimes its hard to find the right pieces. When I am successful at completeing the puzzle, thats a great day. There are days when the puzzle is just not gonna be completed because of things out of my control. Those are the bad days. BUT we have to try and make happen what we can. Safety is far most important than anything alse I do.  Our drivers haul 8800 gallons of fuel and that can be very dangerous. Another important aspect of my job is making sure drivers are alert, they feel good, not stressed, and can be productive with out any issues. The culture is crazy stressed most times. There are more than 1 market being dispatched at my location and the phones go crazy alot of the time.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Home every night. Guaranteed the same day off every week; example every Sunday off. Safety conscious company. Equipment well maintained.
Shop has mechanic assigned immediately too take care of issues to get u on the road quickly. Breakdown pay while waiting on shop. Friendly work atmosphere.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Due to elog under pressure to make all
deliveries within time limits. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Weekly company meetings;Monday 3pm. Paid to attend. Òpen conversations where drivers free to speak.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Pretrial. Drive to assigned rack;loading point at a tank farm. Frustrating due to long wait to load(no detention pay for
1st 3hrs). Payed by load. When u run out of hrs u must stop(unpaid) and wait for a driver to finish run(no compensation given u). Must hook hoses to proper tank for unloading.get in and out customer fuel readings. Return to rack for next assigned load or return to yard.

What is the best part of working at the company?
can’t keep drivers because the pay is not competitive with companies doing the same thing you’re paid by the load, but you don’t really know what you’re making. You could drive the same load and get paid different.. the owners are all about profit don’t care about their drivers. If it was up to them, you would work seven days a week.. for instance everybody had to work Christmas Eve Christmas day and New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. 
If you didn’t work, you didn’t get paid holiday pay.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Trying to figure out what you’re making every week

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The owners are only worried about profit and they push that down to the terminal managers. The drivers are just a number.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Want you there at 6 o’clock your first load doesn’t show up on your ELD device till about seven or 730 have you drive to the terminal pending on which one you’re from? It could be anywhere from an hour and a half to an hour to the terminal wait in line to get loaded then your whole days shot because you don’t start till about 9 o’clock.

I’m usually one to take heed to other reviews posted but I’m also the type to want to find out things for myself. This is one of the jobs I should’ve taken heed. 

Firstly, the pay is by load and is nowhere near what the recruiter promises. If you GRIND starting out, you can take home at least 1k a week but you’ll never touch the $1700 average even gross unless you’re training someone. The transition pay definitely helps but you’ll always have to stay on top of payroll because your check can fluctuate 4 times before it’s disbursed. 

Getting assistance from different departments is like pulling teeth. You’re better off finding answers yourself and just confirming things when you finally do get a response. 

The maintenance of the trucks is subpar and nothing happens when you tell someone there’s an issue unless you create a paper trail. Slip seating so if someone finishes late, you’re waiting for a truck for an hour or more.  Trucks are governed at 65. They just ordered new trucks due to all the other ones breaking down. 

Overall, I’d stress to any to look elsewhere for employment. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Logistics supervisor 2 salaries reported	$48,750 per year
Truck driver 26 salaries reported	$79,865 per year
Diesel mechanic 8 salaries reported	$27.00 per hour
Fleet maintenance supervisor 1 salary reported	$72,500 per year
Dispatch supervisor 1 salary reported	$51,000 per year

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