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Irving Materials Inc.

First off the company in Tennessee's management are running this company in the ground. It is by a long shot not the same company that they were when first arriving in Tennessee. I have spoken with many big contractors and 90% of them will tell you they were the best when they first came to Tennessee, but because of poor management they are now a second rate Ready mix company. They will work their employees to death without any appreciation at all for them. The common lay worker in the Tennessee company and Plant Managers are great. The sales people are great, but the upper managers are destroying it day by day. They never think of you or your families needs. I personally would love to see a big company by them out some day and clean house with the upper management. This is what the Tennessee IMI team needs to turn them around. The upper management employees have forgot where they came from and what the Tennessee IMI team use to be.

The bad news first, you will be expected to work trucker hours each week, and typically every day starts at different times(and usually pretty early). If you have a family this could be an issue, but I've seen people manage alright. 

The good news is the that pay is great, the management is fair and respectful, and everyone gets along pretty well. But you will be expected to show up consistently. To me, it was one of the most rewarding and easiest jobs, once you get the hang of it. There is a bit of drama sometimes with the radio but nothing bad or you can't handle. Be ready to ask question about directions sometimes, because the ticket won't always be accurate. 

There are great benefits including competitive pay here, don't listen to the naysayers. Imi, being a larger company, has the facilities and resources to keep your truck maintained and you rolling. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The health benefits. The pay is a little below competitors, but decent.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The management seems to persecute the drivers needlessly. Instead of focusing on the big picture, micro-management is the norm. As an experienced operator, the customers appreciate me a lot more than the management. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Tribalistic. The drivers help and appreciate each other. You can make friends. The management rarely says or does anything positive towards the drivers. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
You find out when you are coming in the evening before. It can vary greatly and you have no say whether it’s midnight or 4am or 930 am. You also don’t know when you’re getting off.

This position has excellent benefits, but the diversity does not mix well and your just sitting in your truck waiting on loads to deliver. The managers there where I worked with was always seemed to be very stressed and uptight. You feel very independent by being your own boss not answering to anyone but your plant manager, but if you make a mistake or the contractor just doesn't like you, or if he doesn't like your work you might as well find another job. The hardest part of this job is understanding exactly what the contractor wants. I do understand that laying concrete is a very hard job for anyone but if your a sensitive person that don't like getting yelled at then this job might not be for you!

You have opportunity to work your way up the ladder quickly based on your hard work. I  started part time helping the electrician wire up a new plant in the middle of a unseasonably cold winter. needless to say that help me secure fill time employment, I learned how to drive heavy off road mining equipment, became a plant operator. Finally was given the opportunity to manage night shift. Then was selected to become a Quality control technician for the last ten tears I was with the company.

Horrible place to work, in my whole life I've never received such abuse. Everyone, except some other drivers, will treat you like absolute scum for no reason, no matter how hard you try to please them. You'll never be good enough to make them happy. The trucks are junk, and as a new guy you'll constantly be switched to different trucks because they constantly break down, so you can never get used to just one. You'll also work a lot of Saturdays. Be prepared to watch your self-esteem plummet if you decide to work here.

If you don't mind having your life consumed by this job than this is for you. You can work from 5 hours a week (winter) to 70+ hours a week. The schedule is all over the place. You never know when you are coming in each day until a lot of times last minute and you don't go home until they tell you to. It's very hard to plan your life with them. If you are a family person than I wouldn't suggest this job. When I left (almost a year ago) the management and company was very disorganized. On a plus side...the benefits were wonderful and the pay was good. The guys you work with are cool and the job once you get use to it is easy. If you want hours they got them.

You want to work a lot of hours. It’s a six day a week job and your start and end times change daily. I liked the job. You can never get too bored because you’re always doing something else. It was a great experience to learn something new in a different industry. But with this job it is hard to plan things out short notice your time changes daily like I stated before so you kind of feel like you’re yo-yoing through life. If this job was just five days a week instead of six I would still be there just couldn’t  take six days a week anymore. 

At first this company seems like a good place to work, then you soon realise no one will train you properly only to taunt and criticise your every move, very belittling.  If you try to take up for your self, they will threaten to fire you, so you just have to take it. If you are a major caboose and willing to take it up there to then apply to this company. Each plant has an incompetent thing called a plant manager who does not care to take food from your child's mouth to slither up to his buddies/other drivers.

I worked for this company for three and a half years called in only one time. On Friday the plant manager told two of his drivers to come in he failed to inform me about having to come in on a Saturday. On Monday he told me not to bother coming in on Tuesday I was fired. This was not fair as an employee the plant manager's job is to tell all of his employee's if they need to come to work on a certain day and time not just his favorites that run and tell him everything going on. The plant manager is inexperience at managing a company.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Local driver 83 salaries reported	$63,223 per year
Truck driver 7 salaries reported	$66,786 per year
Mixer 8 salaries reported	$25.94 per hour
Commercial driver 42 salaries reported	$22.10 per hour
Plant manager 1 salary reported	$62,500 per year

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