truck driver

entry level technician

installation technician

installer

driver

NuCO2

Pros:
4day/10hour schedule. 
Easy going on clocking in/out
Left alone for the most part to do the Job

Cons: 
Unfounded safety culture and un-necessary rules and policies
Too heavy of a workload, the routes are too long
Endless calls that you are forced to break route and fill.
Disparagement of treatment and double standards.

The "safety" culture is terrible. They require you to place cones out even if the place you parked would't require them or as many. This adds time and mental strain, it adds up when you have 20 stops to complete in the middle of rush hour. The manager at my depot during a speech even admitted that they don't even really deter any type of accidents. They don't have forward facing dash cameras, the one thing you would think they'd have to reduce liability costs in an accident. Thick, dark blue and heavy work pants are issued, no shorts. The pants don't protect against anything but trap in heat and can help lead to heat stroke. Long sleeves are also issued even though you have long rubber gloves that you use to cover your forearm. The kicker is the "safety manager" who is nothing more than a hall monitor who drones about policies and other petty issues constantly and will literally follow you around and stalk you looking to write you up over nothing. His main job is to try and justify his pointless existence. They can afford to pay the hall monitors salary and burn money on cones and other useless items but can't hire another driver so that the route load would be manageable and efficient but that would make too much sense.

The guys I worked with were great. The Depot manager was laid back. If you wanna come in early or had to come in late, it didn't matter as long as the route was accomplished. 

When I left they just re-worked the routes. pretty big routes for all 4 days. Previously it was one big route(20+stops), a medium route(10-15)and  a smaller route(8-10). It gave you wiggle room to adjust for unforeseen issues and to break route and get out of gas calls. The new routes would be manageable except they forgot about calls. If you have no calls that day your fine. But having no calls is the exception. You will average 1-4 calls a day. Especially on the weekends. Which means you will always fall behind on the route. Then you have to hear the complaining about not completing your route even though the policy is to prioritize the calls over your route. It's always fun to arrive to work and see that the previous shift passed on their calls to you. 

All in all it was great when I started, but like most things these days they only get worse. If you need a job, it pays middle of the road, but you need a high tolerance to manure that is conjured up daily. For example; listening to someone give a speech about putting fuel into the vehicles and when you go outside to your truck and perform your pre-trip inspection, you find its less than a 1/4 tank and the last person to drive it was the person just belittling the drivers. Its an easy job but corporate culture and company men messed it up and make it that way.

the management stank there I  had been burnt on many occasions.both physically and mentally.old manager always would say if you don't like it there is the door.you can be the best driver there it didn't matter,if they liked you or were good friends with management you got promoted if you weren't you didn't move.i was passed up for promotion 4 times because i wasn't part of the click.they would say i didn't have enough experience .and then they would hire someone off the street who had no experience and then you get to train them {remember i was the one who didn't, have enough experience }.and then find out they are making $2-$3 hr more than you. they always tell you safety is our culture and we want you to be safe,what they really meant was hurry up get as many stops over 17 done and get back in 10 hours even if it normally takes 14 hours to do .don't get stuck in traffic that's your fault  just get it done.and when someone else in the country gets into an accident they make you sign off on it ,so if it happens to you they will write you up or terminate you because you signed off on that a year or longer earlier which you will forget about, because you will sign off on about 10 a week.also when you are driving the safety people will be following you making sure you do what they tell you to do like you need to travel at 10 miles an hour slower than posted speed on off ramps{408 off ramp goes down to 25 mph you have to drive 15 mph and that for about a half mile}watch out a few people have come close to rear ending me and then they blow the horn and give you the finger and when they call to say you cut them off or anything get ready to be written up even if you did nothing at all you are always  wrong in there eyes also be ready to sign a form saying you are ready for work each day you work,so if you have a cold and you sign the form you are ok they find out  they have ammunition to fire you.SO IN ALL ,IF YOU LOVE TO GO TO WORK FOR A COMPANY THAT DOES NOT APPRECIATE YOU, IS VERY STRESS FULL, WILL NOT BACK YOU UP, YOU ARE ALWAYS  WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO,  LIKE LOW PAY,THAN WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR THIS JOB IS FOR YOU !!!!

Been a dedicated driver for almost 11 years..  seen it all .. At one time Nuco2 had it all biggest in the industry,  growing weekly.  Sadly to say that is no longer the case.   The corporate side only care about two items, maintain their jobs , maintain their bonuses at all costs.  The drivers are the backbone of the company and they are not appreciated at all instead treated like a criminal. The drivers work 10 to 14 hrs daily, they drive all over maintaining route, service calls & out of gas calls , rain, snow, ice , heat and cold . As a driver you WILL work every weekend . Either Saturday  or Sunday.  The safety department is totally out of control,  you need to drop cones & wheel chocks everytime you stop or park the truck period, your safety manager,  supervisor,  or area manager will follow you & spy on you monthly to make sure you are following all safety procedures.  No spare equipment available, truck breaks down you don't get paid, if it snows out they don't want you driving ..again you don't get paid.. the Covid -19 pandemic hit they furloughed the drivers . The most important employee's they have that work the hardest , drive the most , and were and still at the biggest danger with the Covid -19 virus they hurt... the MOST !!! They cut the hrs and pay but were still required to perform their jobs while the Regional,district, depot managers and the rest of Nuco2 management sat home in their homes safely getting their full weekly pay.  That is why if you check the company site there is a min of 80 or better open spots for drivers or ..now..  entry techs , etc. because people are jumping ship weekly. No overtime  !! unless somebody is on vacation or somebody leaves or gets fired... Trust me ... do not work for this Company  !!.. 
 Take you time ..Do your homework and find a company that will care about you & your family...  That will have your back when the next pandemic strikes.  The HR  department works for management only .. they will be on the phone with your manager to throw you under the bus 30 seconds after you call them with a concern or unjust ... Run away ... also .. they pay you every 2 weeks ...



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I worked at the Abq, NM location for a good long amount of time. The best thing about Nuco2 is the 4 day work week. Thats it. Period.  There is NO career advancement at Nuco2 unless your willing to move around the country. Expect to work 12-14 hr days as a driver  but they dont like paying overtime. I have experienced, and seen them, put 6 emergency out of gas customers on a driver in a day, but drivers are still held responsible for their normal route customers not getting done that day. I have worked 14+ hours in a 3 day stretch. I have filled Nuco2 trucks off the clock not to screw over my fellow drivers because managers will cry about OT pay. 

Nuco2 has weaponized their safety dept AGAINST their own drivers. That is a fact. Period. I have come to work to start a new week with easily 2+ weeks of routes needing complete that week, due to drivers being pulled off route. VIP customers get 4 hour response time each day. There is a lot of $$ to be made there NUco2 drivers be damned.

 Expect your manager to be hiding in the bushes following their drivers counting  cones and chocks etc. Expect to have unmanagable delivery quotas each day. So if Nuco2 wants  6 cones around your truck and hose at each stop but they will easily put 30 customers on a driver each day, how is that making drivers rush around safer??  Nuco2 safety rules wasnt created to protect their drivers, but to cover their corporate butts. Period   

Arrive back to the depot after a long 14 hour day? Dispatch can see your truck and while I worked there, they asked drivers to break their 14 hour DOT rule if a VIP customer went out of gas  just make it a 16 hour big day but do that last customer! I stayed way too long at Nuco2 for the 4 day work schedule. Dont make my same mistake!

NuCO2 was sued for unfair labor practices.   The decided to change pay and make everyone hourly and cut pay and still don’t allow overtime to offset the decrease in pay.   As previously mentioned in other reviews the culture is save yourself and screw everyone else.   Especially in District 2.  District manager recently was demoted because he is so horrible and has no clue as to how to manage people.  The Acworth depot especially.   They can not keep people even with ok pay for class B drivers.  Job itself should be gravy but unfortunately it’s become the poster child of micro management and employees are treated as second class citizens.   No blame goes to depot managers or district managers.  Anything ever goes wrong it’s always the drivers and techs fault.   People who are allowed to use vacation days come back with 2xs the work because depot managers and district managers don’t cover vacations.   Even though the a capable but rather sit and watch YouTube and Netflix on the computer in the office.  
But don’t take my word for it as we all know ever company has bad reviews.  Give it a shot and find out for yourself.  The more people that take a job the more bad reviews they get so good luck.

NuCO2 was a great company until the Praxair purchase. Customers are just a means to invoice constantly with fees, more fees, more increases, contracts are one-sided. Annual increases on depreciating equipment. Open Escalations. Property taxes ( on depreciating equipment) ( no other company charges any of this...Focus is on leasing when customers should just buy all equipment easily on their own. Office staff is miserable, worried they will be next. Operations ( drivers and technical) are overworked/under appreciated ( Always hiring, just look at the website). Better Business Bureau: F!. Huge Turnover in sales force ( forced to push equipment not needed to bill. Installers just end up going back to pull it later. Waste of Operations time leading to unhappy customers). The only focus is for shareholder profits above everything else. Customers need a legal team to strike and amend all contracts first before agreeing to anything. Best to simply say "no way" to all contracts. Most importantly: Every customer should shop several competitors and, actually read/review every line of anything, all pages, front and back before signing. Hopefully, they will be bought again by a group who cares about customers and employees before it is past repair.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Work schedule is 4 day work week, 3 days off. 3 days of 11 hours, one 7 hour day.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Micromanagement. Over the top on safety, they watch you every second of every day, whether from cameras in trucks, or being followed by someone during your route. Driver facing camera takes a picture of driver every 6 minutes. They never praise their drivers for doing a GOOD job, only harp constantly about the bad.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They make you feel like a criminal with their constant spying. They make policies that override D.O.T. regulations that are ridiculous. They lie and say you need to do 15 loads per shift, but fail to mention you will often be required to do 25.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come in office, look on computer for any out of gas calls (they are never ending), choose the route you are going to run, plan out route, go pretrip truck, fill truck with CO2, leave to run route...always having out of gas calls interrupt, most of them unnecessary,  but the dispatch people never ask enough questions, so you go off route when most of the time it wasn't necessary...this prolongs your day significantly...fuel truck if necessary,  go back to shop and park, do post trip.

Working at Nuco2 was actually a great experience for the most part and I would still be there today but for family issues. Expect to often max out your DOT hours as a driver (but hey, you go home every night among other good scheduling perks) and be constantly challenged to juggle multiple shifting priorities as an employee in most fields of service in this company. The "in joke" was that you decided what you were willing to get chewed out for while happily excelling in some other area. The safety department was pretty overbearing and this often affected productivity and sometimes morale but if you can keep track of and up with all their demands it was pretty easy to keep to a satisfying and productive personal achievement schedule. The field work was interesting, challenging (sales can sometimes create opportunities to really flex your creative muscle) and mostly fun, as were many of the customers, and, it was pretty easy to develop good working relationships with your coworkers. All and all, and despite some issues (every job has them), working at NuCO2 was a satisfying and rewarding career experience. If they had a depot near to my current location I'd go back to work for them in a minute.

My main responsibility was to schedule and dispatch CO2 deliveries nation wide. I spoke to customers and drivers on a regular basis. The office here in Tulsa was basically managed remotely. We had no direct supervision locally but were expected to run our office as effectively and efficiently as if we had management in the office. All management personnel aside from an IT Manager were located in Stuart. We did well with dispatchers and Customer Care Representatives in the Tulsa office but it became obvious that the desire to grow this office was becoming less desirable but due to changes in ownership the decision was made to abort the effort and to combine both centers in Stuart Florida. I was offered a position with the company in Florida or a very lucrative severance package if I chose not to relocate. Unfortunately I had to decline due to my proximity to my family. The company is based in Florida and the Tulsa office was to be their second call center. 
A very pleasant experience that had circumstances been different I would surely have stayed

Nuco2 became a terrible place to work after Praxair acquired them.
The Texas District is the worst. They moved in a new District manager in 2014 and it went downhill fast after that. And is still headed that way. There was no loyalty or integrity for long time employees who helped build this business and ran a tight ship. The Director of operations East is the worst! No integrity at all. I was told by him that I made too much money to hold that position. He stated I would have to take a position where I traveled all the time or be terminated. Needless to say I had no choice but to take the position.
The salary I made at the time was 11 Years worth of raises.  Company's don't give you that many raises unless you are doing a great job in the position you've held for many years.Speaking of integrity, the person that took the title I held had the title I was shown to be promoted to. So did that person who had only been with the company a couple of years get demoted?

This was a great company! I just hate to see the hard work myself and many others did to build up this company go to waste.

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