inspector

mechanical inspector

dispatcher

mechanic

customer service supervisor

One Guard Inspections

Pros: 
Flexible, work life balance, meeting new people, your car is an office, workload, you’re the boss.
Get paid every week after 30 days. You have control over scheduling your dealer appointments.

Cons: 
You’ll drive outside of your service area and the dispatchers are sneaky for not adding gas, you’ll drive out from 40 to 60 miles out and won’t have time to do another one depending where you stay, (1 to 2 hour with traffic). The gas they give you sometimes doesn’t cover usually they add 5 to 20 depending on the dispatcher. (Recommend you to drive a beater car that saves gas) Most dispatcher are friendly but remember you’re just a number. No benefits. You’ll get 2 or 4 a day before the 30 month mark and then after 30 your workload drops. Sometimes you don’t see work for a day or a week depending on the season. There is potential for making money but I would look somewhere else that would value you and pay more.





Pros: Flexible work-life balance, meeting new people, using your car as an office, managing your workload, and being your own boss are key benefits. You get paid weekly after the first 30 days and have control over scheduling your dealer appointments.


Cons:
You will receive a base fee for driving 40 miles, which, considering the multiple issues involved, is not worth the time, money, or the wear and tear on your vehicle. The dispatchers are unreliable—they assign tasks and verbally agree on the pay, but you end up seeing only the base fee on your paystub, disregarding any extra work. Consequently, the extensive driving, multiple concerns, gas, and vehicle wear ultimately go to waste.

The management and accounting team are virtually non-existent when it comes to correcting pay discrepancies. Dispatchers often shift the blame onto you for issues with assigned vehicles, which were clearly miscommunicated. Sometimes, you must revisit the same location because the warranty company failed to include a concern initially. Considering each drive lasts an hour, coupled with the 30 to 60 minutes required for an inspection, and then another hour to the next site, profitability is minimal. By the end of the day, completing three inspections only at the base fee is not economically viable.

Unlike One Guard Inspections, many mechanical inspection companies use updated apps that clearly display the work and fee before you head out. Furthermore, contacting One Guard’s dispatchers, management, and accountants is a persistent challenge.


Advice to management. 
To enhance employee satisfaction and operational efficiency, One Guard Inspections should ensure transparent compensation, improve support accessibility, adjust payment structures to cover real costs, implement a robust feedback system, and maintain regular communication updates.

First off One Guard is a great employer to work for, I have had no issues with staff or management. They have helped me succeed in my career path and continue to help me grow. Management is very understanding and easy to develop a relationship with, the staff is amazing and is always willing to help out when needed. I look forward to going to work every day and take pride in my work, I can't say the same things about previous employers or companies in this same field.

Workload: Standard
Coaching/Training: Great
Management: Unique and very understanding
Culture: Working as a team/ feels like family
Difficult areas: None really
Enjoyable areas: Working as a team to accomplish a goal, success.
Benefits: Not the worst but not the best
Schedule: Flexible but mostly standard
Pay: Very competitive

I look forward to the future and what One Guard will accomplish.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Having full  control of my schedule.                

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
At first it’s the long wait of getting consistent paychecks cooking in . Then after a few months having to schedule multiple inspections in a day. Throughout the week. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It’s remote contract work. So I’ve never seen another person that works for the company. I have talked to a few on
The phone on a weekly basis. They’re helpful, and seem very relaxed but business minded. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Call the location of inspection, go to location , perform inspection, and leave to next or home.

As an independent contractor I can't say enough good things about my experiences while working with the people at One Guard. From day one the entire staff has always been extremely friendly, helpful and pleasant to work with. I've always felt like they have bent over backwards to assist and help me succeed, no matter the situation. As an inspector, they have always made feel very respected and like a valued asset to the company..... I've never been more overall satisfied with my experiences and the work environment as I have while serving as an inspector for One Guard ! 
5 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 stars aren't nearly enough to express the overall satisfaction I have being associated with One Guard. 


It took a while to get going when I got into this, but 4 years in I love the freedom of 1099, the ability for PTO, and the ability to work 5 or 15 hours a day. As a neutral third party it is mostly stress free, I do deal with the occasional non-intellectual while doing an inspection who gets upset about something I am of duty to report.

The team is supportive and I’ve never felt like I didn’t have support in a unique situation.  

Been doing this almost 5 years now and unless something comes along that is very unique I don’t see myself doing anything else. 

I’ve enjoyed working for this company. Recent turnover of ownership and re-structuring of computer access and report filings causing excessive delays and inconvenient rebooting nesessary to complete reports. 
   Advancement was discussed and agreed upon with rep who I negotiated my accepting this position with. This rep left company soon after my beginning and zero opportunity to improve my positions and income became obvious shortly afterward .Full-time remote work as Reveiwer was promised along with bi-weekly dispatching to larger metro areas with benefits and pay increasing has never materialized

This company does not care about the inspectors that work for them. while they say they do its a total lie. They will continue to ask you to work outside of you service area and when you dont comply they will terminate you. and further more during a pandemic they have no care that you are protecting yourself and others should you have been exposed or are sick. my advice work for one of the other many companies that are willing to pay more and actually know you by name and make sure they can also be as flexible with you as they ask you to be with them. 

You determine the distance you travel. The inspections pay fairly, but work load is inconsistent. You cannot make a living off of the workload. You will get a phone call and or a text message that will ask you to accept an inspection. The message will give you the location and the failure with the vehicle. After you accept the inspection, you will complete the assignment within 24 hours and upload your report.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Being on your own schedule for the most part

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Consistent payments, direct deposits.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
All done by phone, everyone was very professional 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Burn a lot of gas getting from one inspection to the next.

Dispatch won’t enter in proper fees, always hiring new inspectors in the area because the pay for a new inspector is $10 less for the first 50 inspections, dispatch and management will lie to you and the clients and will even change your reports putting you in a bad situation. There is no loyalty at this company and they pay way less than their competitors. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Inspector 19 salaries reported	$180 per day
Mechanical inspector 3 salaries reported	$30.00 per hour
Dispatcher 1 salary reported	$15.00 per hour
Mechanic 1 salary reported	$22.50 per hour
Customer service supervisor 1 salary reported	$21.00 per hour

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