production associate

superintendent

shipping and receiving clerk

full stack developer

estimator

If i could have rated a 0 i would have. New Eagle PA supervisor is a joke!!! She wants to talk about her very personal life and who she had at the station than about business, if your not interested in hearing about it than consider yourself fired because she will find a way to get rid of you. My interview was 35 minutes about her personal life and 5 minutes on job description. She will talk badly about every single employee to you so can imagine what she would say about you to other employees. She tries to turn each one against the other and tell you you can't speak to each other. She calls employees her puppets to with what she wants to. I liked most of the other driver and very much liked the crews i would pick up. The job itself wasn't bad. Pay sucks!!!You only get paid 8.50 hr while in the van so you could work as little as 0 hrs a day to my most was 20 and half. Which is another point about supervisor, she would tell you not to take a trip when your an hour away from end of shift but than yell at you for not taking it  or telling you to call for a relief driver after you been on clock for 12 hrs but than again  yell that you called for relief, relief driver has taken as much at 5 hours to get to you and you could be as much as 2 to 3 hrs to get back to terminal. Oh and the vans they put you are held together with gum, most all are in desprite need of major repairs.To much bull to put up with for very little pay.

Working for PTI, over the road drivers only get paid for the time they are actually on an assigned job.  They have to be on call to the dispatchers until needed, but are not paid for their time at all while waiting.  Some days we were on call all day long and never got a single trip.  In order to sign on to receive a call, you had to first obtain a van to use during your shift.  Some days I had to make multiple trips back and forth from home to our local office to check to see if a van was available for me to use to work.  The last day I worked for PTI, I used $30 in gas trying to get a van to work so I could go on the board.  After I signed on, It took till 1 hour before I was supposed to go off the board to get a trip.  That trip was only one way delivering a crew from Norton Yard Office to Carbo Yard Office.  I made $28 for that day.  That was the last day I worked because it was costing me more money to get the means to work than I was able to earn.  Also, many railroad workers are hard to work with and like to abuse drivers (mentally, emotionally, and verbally).  

During the time I worked there, I was sent paperwork wanting me to take part in filing a lawsuit against PTI over payment situations.  Since leaving them, I received another one for the same thing.

I was a driver for PTI for 1 week and i left this company. Whatever your driving experiences they only offer minimum wage. If you want to work for PTI, make sure you have nothing to do during the day and night because you will be sitting around for hours between trips. Most of the other drivers i met while working were either retired or older than me. When you are waiting for a trip, you don’t get pay. They give you a 12hours shift to pick but you only start your trip when it is your turn. Since you are not the only one driver, it is first come first serve. Like me, my shift was from 6am to 6pm. I called to be on the board at 6am and i didn’t have my trip until 2pm and sometimes 5pm,  so you waste the whole day doing nothing. I have a trip for 2 hours then for the next trip, i have to call to see when it is going to be my turn, so i wait for another 5 hours doing notihng to get the next trip. It could happen also that your driver manager may switch your position or your turn with someone he prefer. It happened to me twice and i was extremely disappointed. I did told him and he could not gave me an answer. I thought i should get in touch with the Headquater about this but since i was leaving, i was just letting it go.  So, this  company is the worst ever comparing to others. Don’t expect to get 40 plus hours a week like they advertise, it is not true. It is more like almost part time and a lot of hours wasted.

A typical day at work was always routine, meaning that once you got your orders for pick up and transport, you just did what was required within the area of getting the crews to their appointed destinations.

What I learned was how to get to and from a lot of locations all over Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, Waco and Oklahoma.
 
Management was always on the employees side as long that employee was abiding by all traffic rules and regulations because when it comes down to transporting passengers, "Safety Always Comes First" !

The hardest part of the job was learning the proper way to use the GPS Log-in system because everything had to be document all the way down to filling the van up with gas and/or putting air in the tires which really didn't take no more than 5 to 10 minutes with good comprehension and understanding.

The most enjoyable part of the job was just enjoying the ride while transporting your passengers. The only time limitations, would be the times of which to pick the passengers up but after that, just drive the speed limit to get them where ever they were going.

I would give this company a 5 star rating.

If you can get a better job, stop right here and press your back button.

Vehicles are high milage and most have numerous problems that take forever to get fixed. There are times you will let management know about a problem and a week later you will still have the same problem.

Expect to have no personal life as you have to be on the board 24/7 unless you work 12 hours in one day, and even then they can move you back on the board.

If you need time off, expect to get harassed to get back on the board until you do.

Other employees will reject rides, or bump themselves down the board to get better runs. You could be 4th on the board and a half hour later get a call to take a run because everyone else either bumped or rejected the run.

Very low pay and milage rates are a joke.

Expect other drives to call management if they see you doing something wrong, even if they do it themselves.

The list goes on and on. So do yourself a favor and look for anything else but this job. The only good thing was the Railroad Crews who knew this job was bad and would feel sorry for you having it.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The Rail Road Crew Members. They make it worth going to work everyday. They are very compassionate, caring men and women. They were the best part of my job. I absolutely love my crew members. They were the best.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The most worst and stressful part of working for the company was management. They leave little to be desired. They only cared that the job was getting done. They did not and do not care about their employees. They did not care how tired you were, and that you were driving over your 10 hours of drive time; when ch I did quite frequently. By DOT Standards was against the law. The company is great to work for.
Management is not.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment is a rail yard and depot. Trains and tracks. Past paced and busy. Very energizing!
I loved it! Not knowing what one day to the next is going to be like is so energizing! I loved the fast paced work and the what is this day going to bring? Loved it! Loved it!

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Busy! Busy! Just like I like it!

to start out with a typical day on the job would be for me to pick up a BNSF crew take them to a train and spend the day with them assisting as far as what I learned well I can tell you I learned a lot from the railroad crews that I hauled over the last eight years I drove i mostly learned how railroad crews do there job on a daily basis, my management team was the best they kept me up to date on current events up coming safety classes safety was a big thing in our job and i took pride in doing my driving everyday safely as far as my co-workers i made a lot of friends over the years being a driver they easy to get along with and i enjoyed being around them the hardest part of my job was the waiting we did a lot of that during the time i drove for example take a crew to a train come to back to town and wait sometimes 5 hours before they got back in, the most enjoyable thing love doing was the driving and making sure the crews got to where they were going safely.

For a professional company catering to a VERY exclusive contract, over the road drivers are not compensated for the amount of time they spend traveling. 

 A typical day will possibly net three to four requests to drive clients to destinations.  The money paid to the company is NOTHING near what is paid to the drivers.  A driver will spend 50-60 hours a week at the job, but at the same time, the driver will only be paid if they have clients in the vehicle, the amount of time they had to wait on the clients, and then they are only paid by the mile while those clients are in the vehicle.  Spending HOURS sitting in a company vehicle waiting on a call for service is NOT compensated.  Drivers DO NOT make money unless a client needs to picked up and delivered to their destination.

There are no real benefits for working with this company AT ALL.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing they put you in a queue for up to 16 hrs with no guarantee of work

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with the Management being a horrible boss and not getting back to you and wondering for up to 16hrs if your going to get work (you have no life) then they can work you up to 15hrs more 10hrs driving and 5hrs waiting

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
“Toxic” it’s There way or the highway and you can’t get responses or answers from hardly anyone with little support and no culture to speak of 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Waiting up to 16hrs in the queue for you to maybe get a little or none and the work schedule says 12hr shift but they said it’s there preference that you stay in the queue 16hrs and some days work you 15hrs or just 2hrs

It felt like you're set for failure from the get go. There are never enough vehicles which means alot of runs are getting delayed. Vehicles are at vendors getting repairs but you have to pull teeth to PO numbers to get them out of the shops. The dispatch will call drivers and demand they work when you already have them scheduled for other things. This causes dispatch to call managers at home in the middle of the night asking for drivers because theyve already used them all. I can't remember all the times that I had to go on trips myself because the dispatch manager lacked problem solving skills. Then after driving all night I would have to be on one of the too many conference calls to discuss retention and why I'm not working harder at recruiting or why are we always short vehicles.

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