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A typical day starts with getting your assigned truck. Pre-trip inspection should take about 15-20 min. All of the trucks will line up on the street. When your truck number comes up on the board pull under the plant. Once under the plant you will get out to get your ticket. The ticket will specify where you are going, what type of load that you have. The hours of operation all depends on how the customers order. Be expected to stay past 10 hours. You have to call the day before to see what yard and what time you start. Family time is limited there are no set hours. You work until all the jobs are done. The most enjoyable part of the job is working with your co-workers. The atmosphere between the drivers is what keeps you going.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Being outside and having a different task 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Favoritism,  for loads , favoritism for jobs , favoritism for new trucks.   Cameras in your face all day long .  Very tight  on overtime.  No opportunity unless your who they want regardless of your education or knowledge. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment is stressful. And culture is diverse. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
When you punch in you don’t know what time you’ll be home . Everything is a secret.  Punch in times vary as well as your punch out time . Nothing is the same .

Management needs more training in -leadership-diversity-empathy-and effective communication. Favoritism is very evident here. The mission statement does not line up with how I was treated. Their benefits claimed that they help with counseling and all these helpful solutions, but that isn't true. It seems like they want you to fail instead of helping you succeed at the company. Lack of communication, lack of accountablity, I never really felt accepted from day 1. Trust me if a place do not give you ways for improvement, lack communication, and talk to you like you're nothing, then this is the place for you.  Very high turn over rate. More training on Empathy and Diversity. I do not recommend this company!

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing is. They don’t care about you or your family. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Your just a number there and have the attitude you do what we say or there’s the front door

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
A lot of racism from the drivers there, not friendly at all.. other drivers feel as if you are taking something from them. Management doesn’t care at all about you or your family. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
It can vary it can be a 6 hour day or 12 hour day or it can be stay at home because a higher seniority driver is taking your truck today and we will let you know when you can come back to work

Training is horrible. Too much of a hurry to get in and out of yard because of their money hingry ways. No lunch break. They WILL work u over 12 13 14 15 hours. Not allowed to have cellphones but u can use their tables(bigger version of a cellphone) that don’t even have a trucking gps just regular ol google maps lmao. Different start times. Cut your hours after your done training. All old heads think they know everything and want one up eachother. No way to move up on list unless one of em quits or retires. Can get in trouble for driving while eating because there’s no lunch break. If you have free time every tries to look busy because there scared of the boss 😂

overall ozinga is a good company to work for.starting out can be rough, because you have to wait by the phone most days to see if they will call you out for work. new drivers don't make much money the first couple years. but if you can stick it out  - top drivers do pretty good.

Depending on what your doing, sometime you may get overtime. Pretty laidback operation with a little hard work. Great place to work. At times its real busy and other times it can be really slow, and you have to bide your time, in other words, find something to do. Look busy.

Work long hours great money just no set schedule so random start times and never know when you will be off work. But being Union over time after 8 hrs average working 8-10hr day is spring unless raining hard. Averaged 15hours  a day in summer / fall months winter don’t plan on working much day or 2 a week if that. 

I think it is a great company to work for benefits are decent you work Monday through Friday the schedule is a bit hard to get used to because of random start times because of scheduled work but if you can get over that it’s a decent job Saturday is Sunday is overtime. There’s usually never no Sunday work but Saturday work is plentiful. You do something different every day. It’s great to meet new people.

Ozinga has great pay and benefits, and I feel that the company is on the up and up in terms of culture. One of my biggest issues is that I often feel alone at work. There is a lack of collaboration/communication between departments and management.

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