rail technician

loader/unloader

inspector

supervisor

operations manager

Inter-Rail Transportation

Management- Sits in office most the time, Watching youtube or something, Messing with pets, not really helping not sure what they do but they can come in whenever time they want or leave.

The Crew is younger and very hardworking its like a family. 

Super understaffed so you will be working everyday. If your not used to this kinda work it will break you down you will hurt and they want you to come in...everyday till they are staffed @ 6:30am. Recommend working here if your single and dont mind hard work or If you dont have a choice really. I didn't have a choice and i left anyways.

----------Breakdown------------
Work: Loader/Unloader.
14.00 Hourly so far 
You go onto train cars and take cars off train.

-Very Very Cramp: spaces If your overweight you will have a hard time getting through cause the trucks and cars take up most the space.

--Lot of bending: down most of your day your bent over taking off chucks. ("Chucks" are the things that secure the wheels to the floor) Then placing the chuck on a Home on the wall locking it in. Like 10 different Chucks, different way of taking them off Some broken or stuck so you have to use a lot of force to get them off which through the course of the day wear you out. You will find your own way.

---While your working You cant touch the cars in a cramp space. 

---Tri level Train carts are the worse  part for me being 5'11 think about bending over to pick up a sock and staying like that for the next hour cause you cant stand up at all while not touching the car.

--- Cant leave till work is done. Some days was 8 hours some days were 18 hours you never know till day of.
There are chances you get to work and none of the train carts are there yet so you have to wait for them. off clock Rest in peace if you live far from work. So you may think its an early shift but train may not come till 10:00 or 12:00 I heard and you have to work till completion.

--After talking off all the chuck you have to drive the cars off the carts into parking spots in a specific way but you have to work you way up to driving takes 3 or 4 days. 

When i got hired i was told they were short so we would have to work everyday. then when they filled up the crew days off will be given. So i started my first day only 2 of us in a 4 person crew. I told myself well maybe a new person everyday. I was there for a week and nope just me and the other guy. Where is the effort to fill up the crew. I seen management sitting in the office or missing in general where work had to come to a hault till a manager shown up to do the Manager part. I heard in total there were maybe 9 of us if everyone shown up. If you cant finish the job by the manager standard in an orderly time  They decide to talk down to us. I think they hold us to  full crew standards which is I think 18 people.

Worst experience:
The day there were like 6 of us took us 17 hours to finish. The manager decided to say" This should have taken that long. You guys need to go faster. I have a life I wanna get to and I cant cause you guys are taking to long" *Mind you manager stayed in the office all day while passing by we saw a laptop in front of him some tv show playing Im guessing and him laughing*  The crew told me past managers they had helped out a lot with the work but these managers just stay inside.

A typical day of work starts at 7 am. This job consists of learning proper railcar inspection, how to hang bridge plates, use ramps, how to properly break various types of chocks. It also shows you proper use of PPE and how to keep yourself safe in a hazardous workplace. I've learned all of these things listed above. Management is decent, could use work and better communication skills. The workplace culture is good. You're surrounded by great people that bring you in like family. The hardest part of the job I would say is probably remembering all of the little details. but once you get those down the job is very easy and self-explanatory. The most enjoyable part of the job is learning new things, and driving all sorts of cars you could think of.

At the beginning I would get to work open rail car doors then go through and take chalks off the tires of the vehicles and then we would spent the rest of the day driving them safely off the rail cars. I feel I learned a lot about this job is quality assurance and management skills. As for my co-workers here they were a little hard to get a long with at first due to the fact that there was lack of work from a lot of them and was put on the rest of us to pull through and get the job done.The hardest thing about the job was taking the chalks off the vehicles due to the fact we were in a tight place and bent over for a while. The most enjoyable part of the job was driving the cars and when I got to be the number two guy lol.

Days can go by like clockwork when everyone is in the right mind and we keep communication up. We have not had an operations manager for the past 5 months so the coordination for our daily agendas came from all the supervisors as well as the office personnel. Communication was the absolute key tactic in performing successful, safe days of production. My side of the job required supervising the loading/unloading crew on rail and in the yard. It is our responsibility to make sure the crew has the proper equipment, and knowledge to complete each task we ask of them. Its our responsibility to report any unsafe actions, conditions, incidents or accidents out in the yard. We prep the yard and close down the yard as well.

As Operations Manager, a typical day would consist of briefing my Team of Unloaders on the days task.  This would include but not be limited to:  A safety briefing, railcar unload count, railcar load count, dispatching unloaded units to haulaway partners and communicatind with both internal business partners as well as external customers.  The most difficult part of the job would be the frequent long hours which in effect limits your quality of life.  The most enjoyable part of the job is knowing that you provided the South Florida Dealerships with all GM, Nissan, Mazda and Ford vehicles.

This company truly seems to care about its employees safety and well being. It is taught every night in the briefing before work. They also have safety stand downs if something happens and remind us throught the night how to walk on the ice. They give out winter gear to us after being there 30 days but gave it to us sooner because it was freezing when we started. I thought that was amazing and it's super warm!!
The management seem very nice and will talk to us if there are issues. I don't see no favoritism like most places around Toyota. Everyone is also upbeat and positive. I'm very happy here so far! 

The day to day is fun, it is also outdoors. You can’t take your experience here anywhere except experience driving cars. Management is horrible clueless and lies to you like you are a child. No incentives to work harder than necessary but they expect it. Minimal pay with no real raises. 50 cents per year for three years then around 20 cents after regardless of work ethic. Hardest part of the job is back pain/ soreness from being in crouched position. Fun job but no future. Very high turnover rate.

Management clearly live by favoritism here, and have no shame showing it. As an employee here, I've seen managers allow supervisors to gang-bang on unloaders on camera without even being suspended or punished at all. Only way to advance is to brown nose or snitch on people. This place doesn't allow you to have a social life and will lie about upcoming days off and early releases from work, creating a hectic, stressful and frustrated work environment. If you value life, don't work here.

Very good job to have…unless you work night shift where the upper management don’t care or respect the things you bring to them. Love to save the management that they hired on so they don’t look like they promoted the wrong person. If your not management there’s not point of bring any issues to them because there just gonna tell you that your in the wrong and need to change or give them there rope to hang them selfs and they will do something about it when they see it but there always in the office so they basically won’t do anything about it 

This company is a good company to work for. The pay starts anyone who is interested at 12.50 an hour. No fancy education required. Also, your ability to become a terminal manager is there for the taking. This position starts at 40,000 a year. The people you will meet make this job very much tolerable, due to the physical nature of the job. All in all, if you enjoy working your but off and, and getting paid well for it, with little to no life, than this is the job for you.

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