financial administrator

van driver

driver

PTI Transportation

They give you a schedule where you have to be available 12 hours a day but you might never get called in to drive. They can call you in for a drive that's several hours that can go over your 12 hour slot. Fine if you stayed in bed late but promoted tired drivers that was awake those 12 hours already.

They watch the vehicle while your driving. Got a call from district manager i'm a great driver speed and all look got no problems.

Train crews insist you take routes the office management does not approve. You explain to the crew the rules they call dispatch complaining about you and dispatch always tells the driver to do what the crew says. Management finds out your getting chewed out, disciplined, or whatever for something that's never your fault.  This happened to me on almost every trip.

I was working this job while paying child support. Hours I was getting was part time hours and I was court ordered to find another job. PTI rehired me promising me more hours but court orders stood so I couldn't accept it.  Child support ended and I couldn't get a job offered I was to "unreliable" and I couldn't get a manager to even talk to me when they considered me as one of the best drivers a month before.

Two times train crews provoked diesel drivers while on trip. One diesel tried to run me off the road and another was a pair of diesels who tried to sandwich my car in the middle of the freeway.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The pay and meeting new people daily 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The long hrs and the traveling of distant in a vehicle that was not in a safe condition at all having to buy gas in the vehicle out of pocket because the gas card never worked at all never got reimbursed for the money that was spent never enough vans on the yard when a trip was made the boss and the head boss were very disrespectful and unprofessional 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very diverse you interact with several different races and culture backgrounds there isn’t just one set background. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
You meet at the yard and receive your trips and you take the crewmen wherever they are needed . Once you’ve made several trips for 12hrs or your places on the yard you get a break when you can  keeping records and entering in your paperwork is very important to do at the end of the day also cleaning your vehicle when your done at the end of your shift . Clock out go home and do it all over again the next day

Try to be as nice as possible to the dispatchers,  pack a lunch for you could be stuck up in the mountains with a work crew .  sleep whenever you can, because you are called at all hours, so you never know when to be ready for work and able for driving. Always check to make sure the Trimble computer is working right and call in the trips if you think it is not working properly so you will get paid. Keep excellent documentation of the trips because sometimes they will call your manager for trips randomly. Ask fellow drivers for help for there is no training and a lot to know.

I love working for the people at UP & NS my branch manager is awesome! Just wish the "people" in suits realized how much we do for the company... There isn't enough pay for the job we do, seriously there isn't a lot of people that can handle the job ... Driving all hours of the day and night trying to have a life outside of this job is ridiculous... We should get hazard pay and offered and some type of life insurance ... We sit and wait on the railroad all hours of the day and night it's so frustrating sometimes because you have to wing it and figure out where the train is because the morons in dispatch didn't get the right information or even ask what radio channel they are on ... Would you know where mile marker 40 is in Grant Park IL ? Of course not we don't drive the train to know that info so you end up winging it and get a late pickup ... and the trips are a roulette you can get a trip anywhere from 2-14 hours .. if you're looking for a steady paycheck this isn't the job for you ...

What is the best part of working at the company?
Being the only one responsible for the company vehicle. Meeting different people as I do my job.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not having a steady paycheck or regular hours. Being on-call, but not getting a trip (only paid if I'm driving).

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Stressful because sometimes the railroad employees didn't follow proper procedures prior to trip. Also, all of the paperwork is submitted via email to the corporate office for payment, and sometimes it was difficult to complete all required tasks (i.e. vehicle inspection post-trip) in the dark.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Going on the board at my scheduled time and waiting for a trip. I usually got one at 12:30 AM & typically didn't get back until the next morning  due to wait times and travel destinations.

If you’re looking for a full time, well paying job, keep looking! 
You are expected to mark up (be on call) for 12 hours a day. You can get called to work any time within that 12 hours. I’ve been called to work after being available for 11 hours and 50 minutes. Then they expect you to work as much as 12 hours.
Pay is a mix between hourly and mileage. Both of which could be considered “slave wages”. 
You get no respect from other drivers, PTI and the railroad. The other drivers leave food crumbs inside the “vans”. I guess they don’t know how to clean up after themselves. The only thing PTI cares about is profit. They don’t care about their employees or vehicles. It’s next to impossible to get anything repaired on the vehicle if it’s reported as a defect. Our Assistant Branch Manager is the only one one that seems to care, but he gets no support from the Branch Manager.

Awful experience. On a typical day you spend more time waiting for an assignment than actually working. Time that you do not get paid for may I add. Management at the Birmingham Alabama location was so awful it was sickening. Very low morale and hardly anyone took the job seriously. Well i guess the few people that had been there for awhile did but all of the new drivers that started with me quit within two weeks.There were about 15 of us that were in the orientation i attended. At the end of two weeks i was the last one left from that class. Only enjoyable aspect of the job was being able to take long trips to Tennessee and Georgia on their gas. The railroad crews were always cool also and great to talk to during the trips. I lasted about a month until i just couldn't take the rude incompetent management any longer

I would get on board at 12am PTI would call with a "trip" sometimes 12:05 AM sometimes not until 12:00 PM sometimes you would get a trip straight away and be on the road until 8-9 PM and still have to be back on board at 12 AM.  Sometimes you didn't get called at all because they had a habit of hiring too many people when there wa not enough work for the ones they had.  Alot of favoritism some PTI dispatch had their favorites and would give the best runs to those drivers and leave the lower trips to the other drivers. One thing I can say we transported for CSX railroad engineers and conductors and they always treated me with kindness and respect.

What is the best part of working at the company?
driving distances and meeting new people in the process

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
really nothing unless you want to talk about the vehicle missing out or the tablet not working

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment there is extremely great. Everybody gets along with everybody. We all work together and make it all happen.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
a typical day for me is waiting around the house waiting for an order then getting to the yard and picking up the riders and taking them to places they have to go and then come back and go back home either. Wait for another call or go on rest.

Keeping all opperations with vans posible for conductors and crews arrivals to destinations when needed.
We had to be on time with pickups and drop offs when dispatch asigned a drvier his or her destination point.
They ran a tight opperation with on time, getting to point of origin and recieving information along with communication.
We all worked as a unit hellping each other when facing a problem with vans being ready for transportation readyness.
The wait time or geting the right need time for pick-ups some times.
Traveling the road and learning the different spots for pick-ups.

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