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Preferred Materials

In the beginning it was a great company... however after 3+years I have endured way too much. Poor communication from top of the ladder to bottom. Reimbursement promised and NEVER received. Rainy season count on not getting any hours and using up all your pto time. Way too many chefs in the kitchen and no one knows that they are doing. The most unnecessarily stressful working environment. Everyone higher up has a useless job title. The list could go on of why I wouldn’t recommend this company to my enemy. Expect a lot of travel in your own vehicle that doesn’t get paid for, no toll reimbursement, no per diem if staying at a location and expect to pay for your own hotel and hope they pay you back one day. No growth in the company just endless empty promises. However, PMI is very safety oriented! They are great at showing you very “helpful” exercises, and have safety checklists for their ancient equipment that does nothing but breakdown. They are also so kind to give out chapstick for the summer. That must be where the employee incentives went too, and the safety bonuses. Because that’s what really matters. It’s all about their bottom line, and screw the employees that actually bust their tails daily (when they do work) The office employees however have all the benefits of working there. Yet the wonder why everyone is leaving... hmm. I would be very interested to see their turnover rate this year!

It was a very stressful work environment. Hours varied from start times as early as 2:00 AM to 4:00 AM to 7:00 PM 6 days a week. If it was a rainy day you had the option to use one of your vacation, or sick days, or not be paid at all. 
As far as work environment it was very stressful. Example, rather than driver's looking out for each other by educating new hires or seasoned driver's, or hiring a quality control person, or a safety officer they forced drivers to report even the slightest safety issues, or policy violations on each other. This was mandatory you were expected to turn in a safety report form weekly of any safety violations observed. This made the work environment very stressful because even if you made the slightest error or mistake your fellow co-workers was expected to report you to a supervisor on that form. So there was no comradery with your co-workers, and you felt as though you could not trust anyone.

Working at Preferred was an ok job but not an Ideal job for me. Starting times varied every morning and you did not know when you were getting off until they messaged you to go back to the shop. Also you could not plan anything on Saturdays because there was always a possibility of having to work. Would be notified to work on Saturday typically on Friday just before quitting time in the late afternoon. 
The hourly pay was not to bad since other concrete companies pay per load.
Management had a semi high turn around rate or being moved from one location to another frequently.
Hardest part of the job is keeping the truck clean and keeping up with the VERY sporadic work schedule. You could not have much of a social life at all with this job even planning small things on weekends are very challenging.
Overall if you need a paycheck its not that bad of a place to work if you can get past of the things I have mentioned.

Tampa is a beautiful place to live. I was very excited when I was offered my foreman job at 30 years experience. I would if someone wants you gone from the job you’re gonna be gone specially those and management positions Management not professional at all they get you in the door and have no issue humiliating you belittling you that’s the hardest part of the job. The workers are great guys they stick together beware of management. it’s more like a warden watching over you and calling you out on the job and embarrass you. They’re always right and you’re always wrong. other than all the negativity with management overall it could’ve been a great company because the workers pretty cool guys beware of management.

The company itself is a decent company with very good benefits. Unfortunately the trucks that the new drivers get are old and outdated, not to mention unsafe. Be warned that if you do not have experience driving a manual transmission concrete mixer truck that it will be very difficult to pass the training. I passed the four week training program in eight days because I had previous readymix experience. I am no longer with the company because I personally feel the the truck that the company issued me was and is unsafe.
This is a relatively easy job, one of the hardest parts is getting familiar with the extremely sensitive clutches that these old trucks have and that is the reason I believe those trucks are unsafe.

Hours are long some days, so expect to work like 13 hours give or take. A lot of driving, so if you don't like driving then do not work here. 
The workers are very respectful, they tend to play jokes one each other but they have been working there for awhile so they know each other. They will help you if you have any questions on anything but, you need to be able to learn on your own as well as there is no baby sitting there.
Pay is I say low as for what the job entails. Could be more especially if they want to really compete with other companies of the same business.
Overall, its a good company to get learn driving half ton vehicles.
Give it a shot, if you don't like it then there is other companies.

The job was pretty good except for when they put e with a trainer who smokes. At first it didn't bother me, but then it got worst and the throughout the week, the trainer was always knick-picking everything I was doing to driving to expelling the concrete. 
I would have stayed on longer but since I knew how to drive a manual transmission, they tried to give an old manual truck. I haven't drove a manual big truck in over 8 years, and in concrete dispensing it is hard to use that transmission type. 

So we would need more training on the truck types

Is the worst place to work at. If you want to be stress and don’t have any coworker be nice specially when your new that’s the place to be. It’s one of the jobs that when you are at home you still thinking what you need to do the next day. The manager think your a robot.

the hardest part about this job is the heat. anyone that has done asphalt in the south knows the summers are rough but if you do not mind its not horrible. the management is lacking in the realest sense of the word and do not care about anything but the money the make. it does not matter if you make money or not to them. the employees no longer get bonuses but the formen and office workers get huge checks for Christmas.

This is a great company to work for  construction. The befits are awesome. Health insurance is very cheap. You always get the best training. The only down fall is that you can’t lay asphalt when it’s raining or if it’s below freezing. So if your working in Florida you may have a couple of weeks when you get a day or two of work. Overall this is a great company to work for.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Driver 5 salaries reported	$1,070 per week
Mixer 1 salary reported	$22.23 per hour
Truck driver 2 salaries reported	$1,150 per week
Heavy equipment mechanic 1 salary reported	$29.25 per hour
Quality control lab technician 2 salaries reported	$22.99 per hour

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