truck driver

local driver

production

production associate

intern

JBS Foods

This company has a great set of core values that aren't demonstrated or even encouraged by the company (other than being posted on the wall). The company as a whole is very unorganized, which makes it difficult to get any questions answered or issues resolved. Management doesn't take your concerns seriously and doesn't show any appreciation, kindness, or understanding. Hard work is rewarded with more responsibility for no extra pay or benefit. No opportunities for advancement unless you're willing to kiss up to the manager. You don't get any feedback on your performance from your manager, good or bad. Instead, the management allows peers to send nasty emails to each other, CC'ing the entire office, pointing out every petty, little mistake one person may have made. When I brought up how toxic and unprofessional this is, my boss didn't understand what the problem was. The shifts are very long and stressful because the workload is huge and very hard to manage. The compensation and benefits are nothing to brag about and below average for the industry. The office is full of gossip-mongers and abrasive people who are unwilling to help each other or the drivers. They expect you to know everything about the company and how it works on day one, and when you don't, they treat you like you're an idiot. It took me MONTHS at this job to stop receiving nasty emails on a daily basis saying I did something wrong, which even started when I was still in training and learning. No one, including my boss, took the time or had the courtesy to email me directly or speak with me in person to politely explain what my mistake was or why it mattered. Instead, putting me on blast in front of everyone and making me look stupid. Keep in mind, I wasn't making the same mistakes over and over again. There is a lot to learn starting at any company, and you are going to make mistakes on your way to becoming an expert in any field.

The most enjoyable part of the job was working with the drivers. Most of them are very kind, understanding, and patient, especially once they get to know you and realize that you actually want to help them, unlike most of the people who work there.

If you still want to work there after reading this, best of luck! You are going to need it to find yourself a better job soon.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Daily home routes, insurance is ok, retirement plan is good, start work anytime you want mostly useless you are on a customer load. Trucks are well maintained.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Be aware doing runs to mt pleasant. You can never find an empty trailer to take back with you. Dispatch wants you to sit wait or drive around to find empty trailer but you don't get paid for it. You maybe looking and driving around for a while. Company needs to do better with communication to drivers. Sometimes driver managers will lie to you about runs just to coax you into taking customer run. Some customer loads don't provide restrooms or will make you wait for 7 hours of unloading time. If you have to take truck to the shop for repairs company wants you to sit there and not get paid while you wait. You can be at the shop up to six hours. Make a habit of making sure you write down your miles and everything you are supposed to get paid for. Cuz if you don't you won't get paid. They are bad about not paying for all loads taken and paying detention time. Make this place a last resort before working here .

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
A few of the office people were nice. But just like any other trucking company they say the same nonsense " treat you like family,know you by name and not a truck number...."blah blah blah ..

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Get up drink coffee, start the truck up make sure it's full of diesel then it's time to go!! (They don't pay you to do a pre trip inspection so why bother) Grab load and go

Double standards in the workplace upper management talks like their harvard educated lawyers when you oppose a policy change that contradicts an existing policy or you are seen as moronic or insabordinate for your opinions on a policy that has been proven to do nothing to benefit the employees or the job. They say there is an open door policy, its more like you can talk about your grievance but management feels not inclined to follow up about it or threaten you with termination because its a policy now and there is no room for fellow employees to object or have a say in it or they feel if they say anything they will be targeted and denied loads or employement so its better off to them to just keep doing what they were doing before, mainly employees have been ignoring the new policy for a couple of years now unless there in the office or terminal and try to stay as far away from upper management and safety as much as possible because if you start calling them out on their blatent corruption your seen as the aggressor or agitator and they defend that their policys work, hard to claim that when over half of the employees dont follow the new policies 90% of the time anyway 

The Pittsburg Texas terminal has a very high turnover rate for their drivers because they will write you up for anything and some of the day dispatchers are outright disrespectful. On top of that there are cameras that face both ways in the truck and they can clearly see and hear everything you do and will check them even if you don't set off a drive cam. They are also extending the following distance to 3 seconds minimum, no excuses. If this is your home terminal just know that some of the dispatchers don't care about the drivers at all and you're just a number to them. I have nothing but nice things to say for everyone that works nights, however i have plenty of negative examples of the mistreatment from day shift. It doesn't matter if you work nights, you will still have day shift calling you and waking you up over trivial things that could've waited a few hours or assigning loads on your days off with no prior discussion. Keep in mind the dispatchers and other drivers have no respect for your personal items and if you're local you are expected to take everything with you every time you leave the truck, including your CB.
Do not make the mistake of working here until changes are made with terminal staff. 

JBS management and their attached plant union have little to no consideration for the ammonia and boiler mechanics employed outside of the department superintendent who is okay to work with when available along with an extremely small group of senior technicians . 

They have a manpower shortage typically and have an odd system of leveled advancement for pay within all of maintenance as a whole that involves a basically unrelated and outdated DOW chemical grouping of computer based learning modules to qualify for higher pay. 

There is little to no general consensus on how the Refrigeratoration and boiler systems are operated  besides a small group of senior employees and at times critical information is entirely forgotten or ignored during shift change or regular operation and is kept on a need to know basis regardless of safety.  Diagnosis and troubleshooting tech selection is handled off of favoritism and leads to confusion as well. 

Re-search this companies record and inspect their equipment closely at this plant if you are interested.

The Good.. 
New equipment.
Dedicated, only haul their own product, no back hauls. 

The Bad..
Petty Middle management who like to pick favorites and punish the others.
Driver Managers are treated very poorly very under paid and are forced to treat drivers poorly as well. 
Paid by the day, so planners and managers think they own you for the whole 24hr day.
Paid like a local driver, but worked like an OTR. 
Terminal manager is always changing the rules to figure out ways to get more out of the drivers and pay them less or take days of pay away. 
Will run you into the ground, ask you to split sleeper berths or go off duty in the dock to make appointments. 
Hard to get time off or doctors appointments. 
Inward facing camera that are live and recording continuously. 
65mph max.
Terminal manager has the attitude that drivers are a dime a dozen, There’s always more.
Drivers get little respect, constantly monitored and generally not trusted

If you are just starting out it is a great first opportunity, Get the experience you need to get a good job.
 if you have any experience you won’t be happy here for very long. 

This is a place for someone who loves to work all of the time because they work most Saturday's and some Sunday's with overtime being mandatory you pretty much have to show up or take a point.This job does have a very lenient point system for absenteeism and tardy so that is a plus. The management needs a complete overhaul because the management that is there now doesn't keep the employees informed at all they will know by Thursday morning at the latest if the plant is working the weekend or not but they will not inform the employees until after 2:00 P.M. on Friday so if you work here be prepared not to make any plans unless they are last minute. They really don't care about their employees much other than what you can do for them. They work most holiday's without care for families and they also worked over during school registration and voting pushing people to make a choice between their children, country or work.

You could easily make $1700 a week as a driver I do it constantly week after week after week so the pay is really good.  Benefits are also pretty good Most people are great to talk with And even go out to lunch with some of them.  Dame near brand new equipment to drive.  And we are no longer paid by the mile.  In fact mile pay at JBS carriers is a thing of a past for the midwest and east teams,  We are now paid by the day whether you drive 50 miles or 500 miles starting at $240 and up per day and $5 increases every year up to $270 max per day. As long as you are not home and available to work you are paid your money plus monthly bonuses. My average pay per week is $1750 b4 uncle sam. Alot of times I dont even work more then 60 hours a week so it's a relaxed job with good pay. Ideal for company drivers with experience. 

Job can be stressful dealing with tough customers, heavy traffic, bad weather NY traffic lol, and if you care bout on time delivery like I do the job can be stressful when things dont go perfect.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Not much. The job is simple. Drive, get loaded with chickens, secure, and drop at the plant.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No time off. Requests always being denied, work ALL holidays except Thanksgiving and Christmas; looonng hours (12-18 hrs a day, 5-6 days a week) $700-1600 wk; getting home from 9 pm to 1 a.m every night

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Disorganized. They 'make it up as they go' type rules. Inside cameras go off for the smallest thing, sometimes when you aren't doing anything wrong. Cannot stop for anything! Start the shift and CANNOT stop until all work is done. Not even fir a meal or bathroom. You are always being tracked.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Go to terminal, get a truck (if one is available), get it fueled, go to the plant and wait for an empty trailer, go to farm (drive :30-2:00 hrs), get loaded, and take to the plant, drop it,and get another empty. Repeat 3-5 times. Go home. Maybe get 5-12 hrs off.

My experience has been horrible.  Like most companies they say one thing to get you in the door then it all goes down hill from there depending how management and dispatch feels like treating you.  Most of them either ignore their job or do it as poorly as possible.  I feel like they have been trying to get me to quit since day one ND it's working.  I've worked every day possible and done everything asked of me and just trying to get a load seems like a job in itself.  I've been here for 7 months and since day 1 I've had to call 6 days a week to get loads in order to work and other drivers get loads a day ahead of time or even multiple loads at once.  I've called several times and talked to several people about the irresponsibility of management and dispatch but nobody cares to do anything about it.  Nobody talks to each other in the office so nobody knows what's going on at all.  Enter at your own risk!!

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Truck driver 874 salaries reported	$81,643 per year
Local driver 13 salaries reported	$78,000 per year
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Production associate 15 salaries reported	$19.13 per hour
Intern 15 salaries reported	$21.00 per hour

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