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Awful place to work. When I was hired I was told $95,000-$100,000 working 5 days a week. Not including OT or holidays. First year I worked I made $97,000. That was working most of the year 6 days a week and working every holiday possible. So expect to work 60-70 hours a week and have no home time in order to make any kind of money. On top of that the management is terrible. Manager will tell you to call them with Any issues but they never answer the phone. After several years I can count on one hand how many times they answered the phone. Management often missed stuff on payroll and you would have to wait 1 or sometimes 2 weeks to get your correct pay. On top of all of that equipment wasn't fixed in a timely manner. Things would get written up and often ignored for weeks at a time. Or things would get marked as "resolved" and you get into the truck the next day and it's still broken. Lastly, a lot of the drivers just complain about their runs or whine about anything to anyone that'll listen. From the runs the have to talking about people behind their back. Saddest part is the managers would do the same thing and encourage it. Overall my experience working here wasn't great. I highly recommend avoiding the company at all costs. They blow a lot of smoke but it decipates quickly. In the industry they pay the lowest. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part used to be the environment and the people. However, the environment here has turned toxic with lazy management and lots of favoritism. The people are still good to a degree but unfortunately it’s hard for a team to complete their mission without good leadership to back them. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The lack of presence with the leadership at the location and the constant “gotcha” mentality makes this location very difficult. Managements lack of commitment to his job make it very difficult to rely on him for things that management typically takes care of. Managements lack of competence to do their job and always relying on other managers for guidance on the most basic of tasks managers should know make him very hard to turn to for things. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work relationship between the mechanics and drivers is typically good. However, because of lack of commitment there is a lot of tension with in the location. There has also  been quite a bit of favoritism in upper management. Not to mention the rapidly growing amount of micromanaging is becoming increasingly common.

Pay and benefits is very competitive.
 Hours and scheduling are very rough. Night shift, weekends, holidays this is a 7 day a week operation. New hires will have weird days off during the week and will work weekends for regular pay. 
There is no profit sharing or bonus pay. 
Transportation manger is brutal. Zero leadership. 
They use drive cam here and the trucks are set at 63mph beware! 
Manual and automatic trucks which is a nice flow to change things up. 
I don’t see any room for driver advancement. The drivers who are 5 star are still company drivers after 25 years of service. 

Messer is a company with the same issues as most companies but strive to make it a good work and home balance. Most drivers have been here for over 5 years and they don't leave. so Messer must be doing something right for their drivers. Safety is our main concern for employees. Drivers are given PPE, along with uniform shirts and pants. The equipment run at most facilities are under 5 years old. The equipment is well maintained by qualified mechanics.  Drivers can request vacation and personal days off based on availability. Drivers pay is exceptional if you are willing to work 5 days a week and put in your 10 to 14 hour day. Most drivers are home daily if running nights and nightly if you are running days. On a rare occasion if you run a 600 mile trip you might be stuck out over night. Messer takes care of this by giving the drivers a company card to pay for the night out in a hotel. At some locations the drivers mostly are in day cabs. 

My review is based off of my own experience in a "support department" and not as part of the Construction teams. In the support department, be prepared to ONLY support the business, not help make decisions to run it. This company is excellent but if you're young and not currently worried about retirement accounts, this is not the place for you! They will pay less than the market and compensate with their ESOP which is an Employee Stock Ownership Program and after 3 years you become a vested employee. Once you're vested, you will have your job INDEFINITELY, there's a LOT of stuff you would have to do to get fired at that point. So if you need money now, this is probably not the place for you. On the other hand, if you are in Construction Management, YOU ARE THE SHOW! Everything will stop for you, you ARE the company. There are pros and cons to this environment and I believe this is a wonderful company, I just need to look elsewhere as life events require a little more financing and I personally want to be part of a technologically focused company.

Beware of the Cumberland Md. location. A bunch of backstabbing lying snakes. This company micro-manages to the point where they will follow drivers on their route and hide in the weeds looking for something to fire you over. They will fire you over the smallest thing. The equipment is junk and never gets fixed. Inward facing cameras watch your every move. Believe me, no matter how much they say its a training tool its nothing more than a tool they use to fire you with. The pay is always screwed up. On top of that when you finally do receive your pay it does not justify the long hours and stress you endure working for this company. The trainer at the Cumberland location is nothing more than a brown nosing lap dog who's idea of job security is making his co-workers job less secure. Messer rewards lazy, unproductive, drivers who milk the clock and brown nose. Then they run off all their hardworking drivers and then they wonder why they can't employ or retain drivers. There are plenty of better paying less stressful jobs out there. My advice to anyone considering working here is to keep looking.

This company is a sinking ship. They are constantly cutting corners to save money. Trucks are horribly maintained, but they have money to put cameras inside and outside the truck to monitor you the entire time you’re working. The pay is below the other liquid gas companies. Work life balance is non existent. Want to make a decent check well your working 5 14s. Need off you’ll probably get it but your check will be almost nothing. The local management is great but the rest above them is terrible.  Only interested in DEI promotions not merit based promotions and it shows in the leadership. The dispatchers are hit and miss one was great and the other was a miserable man that wanted everyone else to be miserable.  They poorly planned for the future and low balled customers with cheap contracts pre Covid and now they are losing money due to inflation. They will be losing accounts quickly in the near future.

This is a company that will spend a small fortune training you, and then threaten to/ fire you over any small thing they can come up with. The good: you can make a lot of money, and the benefits aren't too bad. The crew of drivers are a great bunch of people who will support and help you out. The bad: Management/ dispatch borders on the incompetent, and lives the philosophy of "Productivity through intimidation". All trucks have inward facing cameras, which they will use to discipline you, no matter what they say. There is no overtime, no matter how long you work, just a pre-determined amount of pay per trip. Trucks are fairly new, but aren't washed or maintained well. If your A/C breaks in the middle of summer, you'll sweat for months, and if it runs, you'll make the trip with it. All in all, the paycheck isn't worth the constant stress you'll be put under. Believe me, I've never been so glad to change jobs in my life!!

First of all, The pay scale is commission based off loads you run. You will average 8-15 hours of week you are not paid for due delays throughout whole company overall average pay 16-21 dollars hour per load not 25.70 hour. . At first this company seemed like a good fit. After the months passed, I started seeing major red flags that I have not encountered with any other company that I have worked for. I would recommend generally avoiding and not working for this company if you have any other options.No cell phone policy/cameras watch drivers with governor trucks. The trucks lack maintenance for ever broke down. They don’t wash trucks nor clean Covid 19. Be ready slip seat daily with no dis infection of trucks. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 27 salaries reported	$2,463 per week
Tanker driver 19 salaries reported	$1,752 per week
Trailer mechanic 27 salaries reported	$32.63 per hour
Local driver 56 salaries reported	$1,758 per week
Diesel mechanic 11 salaries reported	$35.32 per hour

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