truck driver

local driver

territory manager

forklift operator

terminal manager

Midwest-Motor-Express,-Inc.

This is probably the best truck driving job in Portland area . Although this is a small terminal,  meaning no saftety and on-site maintenance personnel,  no logistics planners . This is not a job for wannabees . This is a job for someone willing to show up on time . Someone who cares to perform a good pretrip daily. Someone who looks over the paperwork and verifys the load matches the paperwork and it is securely loaded.  This is a job for someone willing to buy a tire gauge and a glad hand hose and maintain good tire pressure. Carry your own fuses ,some zip ties , 2 pairs of gloves for fueling and handling freight ,and be a real truck driver. This job is for for someone willing to verify the address and route with their smart phone and compare it to the route provided (its been known to be wrong) . This is a job for someone who is willing to call the customer and ask any questions related to making the delivery if necessary. If you're willing to provide good customer service and act in a professional manner while representing the company.  This is a job with bankers hours,  although from time to time flexibility and adaptability are required to cover other employees in case someone can't make it in as well as the willingness to help on the dock occasionally when necessary. Check all your legal documents and stay legal you have to watch out for yourself.  I very much enjoyed this job. 

Typical day is getting to the terminal reviewing your freight getting your paperwork in order and then heading out on route. 

Unfortunately it’s what they deem a “dark” terminal. Meaning that there is no one there when the drivers leave. There’s only four people there at a time and you are required to load and unload your own freight. 

Somethings I noticed:
The building is in disrepair. The docks and the terminal as a whole is very dirty. There’s no heat in the building where you’re unloading and loading trailers so you’re freezing your butt off. When hired I was promised a consistent schedule, but within my first month, they didn’t have work for me multiple times. They’re running older freightliners that consistently have some minor issues that are not deal breaking, however very annoying. They don’t have many liftgate trailers so more often than not I would be helping customers lift the pallet off the back of the trailer or down stacking it onto a two wheeling cart and making multiple trips in and out of businesses

MME pays very well and is a good place as an entry level dock worker with zero experience in LTL. Unfortunately, since being purchased by Knight Swift a couple years ago the work culture has gone downhill. MME adapted AAA Coopers operations and processes. I had high hopes in the change and there is definitely potential to make the crossdock format better, but management doesn’t want to take the time to improve processes. Sometimes it feels like management is clueless on what’s actually happening on the dock. There is no real training program for new employees, and high expectations for new workers to understand what is going on. If there is no training, than the dock supervisors can’t expect the newbie will know what is happening. There is no accountability at MME and people get away with a lot there. Communication is very poor from all tiers in the company from supervisors, operations managers, terminal manager, etc. Everyone just worries about themselves and doesn’t care for the next shift. This type of work is a team effort, but it’s non existent at MME. There are no load bars or racks for loading. It’s difficult to do the job without proper tools. There is potential for promotion within the company as long as you fit the mold of the work culture. If you have ideas or vocal, you’ll be listened too, but no actions will be taken. Management only cares what’s happening on the dock when they get in trouble. 

Not a fulltime gig. Even though the manager never mentioned anything about me getting less than 40 hours when I was hired, I assumed the meaning "Full Time" meant 40 hours a week. Will be more careful next time with future companies. Management yelled at me often, and overall a poor experience. No PPE regarding all the dust on the dock which made me sick, was told I need to provide my own PPE since I'm the only one getting sick. Considering management sits in the 68 degree air conditioned office on their phones doing absolutely nothing, they weren't exposed to those conditions as I was. 1/10 experience working for this company and so far the worst I've worked with. Also, one day while working on the dock the heat index was 98 degrees, with the Dock being at well over 100 degrees fahrenheit. I asked to go cool off in the office for a minute because I was feeling light headed. I was showing symptoms of heat stroke (won't go into much detail on that on here.) I was denied my request and was told to keep working. Unacceptable. I was not treated like a human being here whatsoever. Do not recommend working for this company at the Janesville location. Horrible experience. 

They are one of the if not the highest paying for starting as a forklift operator. If you make it past the first 4-6 weeks in my personal experience the operations manager will listen to what you have to say about operations weather it’s good or bad, and then make excuse after excuse for why things are the way they are. Like in my terminal they changed our hours from 5pm-3am to 4pm to 3am and told us that each of us get off earlier 1 day a week, mind you we have 5 2nd shift guys so that’s a different guy everyday Monday thru Friday....well that was a pipe dream. We get told we are getting new lifts, and the ones we do get when we get them have 3 wheels in the junkyard. Many of the dock plates going in and out of semi trailers don’t work properly so driving in and out of trailers is sketchy and very hard on our backs, we were told ALL the faulty ones were being replaced when in all actuality only roughly 3-4 out of maybe 15-18 were actually replaced.

What is the best part of working at the company?
It is very nice and easy loading and unloading trailers and putting the pallets in places they need to be and the trailers are very easy unloading it's very nice place to work very nice job and they get pizza for all the people there 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Finding all the pallets you need to load the trailer but have to pile a lot of pallets and fully load the trailers it takes a long time to get it loaded but it's definitely a nice place to work 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Driving forklift and unloading and loading trailers but it's very hot in some months and then very cold some times also and gets very rainy inside in some spots and you have to change your gas tank which is very heavy

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Waiting for the trailers to come to unload them and after they're unloaded they have to be cleaned inside

What is the best part of working at the company?
Been with the company now 2 years year on the dock and now a year on the road great company to work for awesome folks all around decent pay for the industry company is one of the most laid back in the trucking industry I'd say if your just starting out in the industry an looking for decent folks to work for I highly recommend applying 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Pretty laid back as long as you show up an are willing to learn an WORK MOST OF ALL 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Laid back company I'd have to say one of the good ones in the trucking industrys full of opportunities 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
All around pretty laid back for the industry of trucking an warehouse work

Not only is the work volume horrendously stressful, you will also find yourself overworked and underpaid.  The terminal itself doesn't make much money, especially since they can't find it in them to keep people staffed full-time.  They do not care about employees or their livelihoods.  The managers are rude and disrespectful of your time and well-being.  They do not care if you cannot come in during hours that you did not agree to come in at.  They do not care if you need to pay bills, they'll either ask you to randomly come in or they will cut your hours until you're part-time and unable to receive benefits.  

The most enjoyable part of the job?  Leaving.  Do not work at any of their terminals.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The money.  fellow drivers. The new terminal manager. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The micro management from corporate and the "Osha flunky" who became the safety supervisor. Lack of maintenance on the trucks. Highering more drivers with the runs to support the employees hired

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's every man for himself. Terminal Manager trying to fix but with to many chiefs and not enough Indians its hard to keep order

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Came in to get started and sit and wait for p&d trailers to show up and dock workers to strip trailers and reload. Putting my start time usually about an hour behind

What is the best part of working at the company?
Great management, supervisors and co-workers. Great pay and good miles. I can’t say enough good things about working here

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I’m not a guy who stresses about things but I guess that it would be break-downs. I’ve only had one and it went pretty smooth but I guess that would be stressful.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Great. I feel appreciated here and have good guys that I work for and with.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come to work, pre-trip truck and trailer, get dispatch, drive, drop and hook, inspection, drive back, drop, turn in paperwork, do post trip, fuel up and clean truck, call it a day.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 59 salaries reported	$35.36 per hour
Local driver 12 salaries reported	$34.08 per hour
Territory manager 9 salaries reported	$85,556 per year
Forklift operator 93 salaries reported	$25.34 per hour
Terminal manager 1 salary reported	$90,000 per year

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