truck driver

yard driver

local driver

dispatcher

diesel mechanic

Premier Transportation

I work in one of the shipping centers helping to oversee and direct the production line where freight is sorted and processed before shipping. The hours are great; I don't usually get less than 40/week. The job itself is not difficult, either. Anyone who sticks around long enough (which is usually a week), and actually tries, can do just about anything there. In addition, management is easy to work with, and friendly for the most part. They can be brutal at times however, as they do not tolerate bad attitudes or insubordination of any kind.

Perhaps the tragic flaw of this place is that the whole production line is staffed by temp agencies. All workers are temps, and will be as long as they stay there (even as a team leader, I am still a temp). They will never be hired in, as the only associates of the company are management. This place is a revolving door for workers; we can burn through as many as 10-20 new ones in a week. As many as half of them quit the same day that they start, if they even show up. Many of those who stay can be very difficult to work with. Many of them will at some point develop an "I-don't-care" type of attitude, and refuse to pull their weight. Others will frequently call off, or look for any excuse to leave half way through the day. Good workers that stick around are hard for this place to come by, and this can cause the few good workers to have to endure 16-hour workdays. While this tends to be exception and not the rule, it should be known by anyone considering working for this place that this is a possibility (word is that the temp agencies lie to applicants, and tell them that the shift ends between 3-5 PM). It should also be known that the lack of decent workers is more the fault of the staffing agencies and not Premier's, as the agencies just do not care who they send us. However, I'm sure that it would not kill Premier to look into some alternative methods for staffing their shipping centers.

Overall, this is not a bad place to work. When we can get a more permanent team that sticks around for a while and is consistent, it can actually be a very fun place to work. But to stick around here, you cannot be opposed to moving around and working hard, and you have to just deal with the fact of working the occasional weekend, or picking up the slack of someone else.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I have nothing but nice things to say about my experience working at Premier. The expectations are clearly set. Leadership is fair about rewards & punishment. The most valuable part of this job was being able to listen to some very successful people talk about their jobs and their lives, which I still take with me and apply to this day. I was actually employed with them at the height of the pandemic, and leadership went so far out of their way to take care of us as employees, that they gave us an opportunity to go and detail our clients' vehicles when ride requests stopped. Since then I've moved on to my own personal passion project, but if I ever want to work for someone else again I would gladly work for Premier again. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The vast majority of stressful situations can be diffused with good customer service and good communication with the dispatch office.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's the environment that you cultivate in your own vehicle (granted you're a chauffeur). If you're happy and professional, then 99.9% of your clients will love and appreciate you. If you're grumpy or give off bad vibes, then clients will react to that in their own way. If you do what you're supposed to, and again, the standards are clearly communicated, then leadership will leave you alone and won't hassle you.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
(for chauffeurs) You will receive your ride requests the day before you're set to work, at which point you will either accept or decline them. So you know with 24 hours advance notice exactly when and where you need to be. You will show up to the garage to get the keys to the vehicle that you be operating that day, and then you will go service all of your ride appointments. Once all are finished, you will then fill the car up with gas and return it to the garage. If a client or an airplane is running late, you simply let dispatch know and they will make necessary changes in  the master schedule in order for all of Premier's clients to receive timely pick ups and drop offs.

I worked at Premier for 28 months, I only left because a "dream job" fell into my lap. Even with the "dream job" I sometimes consider going back.
The dispatchers are good people that get to know you and how you want to work. You can walk into the office, sit down beside them, discuss whats going on for the week and come up with a plan that works for both of you. If they ask you to go beyond the norm and you do, a lot of the time you'll get a paycheck that does the same. 
You get paid for almost everything you do. Stop pay, drop n hook, deadhead, detention and $100 bonuses all the time. The $1000 annual bonus really makes a nice thank you. A lot of the things management does for you is really old school, like buying your kids Christmas presents!
I did delivery's to retail stores all over the region, some of them had very challenging docks ... or doors to hit, nothings quite like backing thru a mall parking lot at Christmas time. :) You'll definitely fine tune your skills, quickly. 
For the most part, the customers I delivered to were friendly and tried to keep me on schedule. They knew the route I was working, (the routes stay the same) and did there best to get me out on time.
Drivers do the unloading. Floor loaded boxes, "most" are very light,  sent into the store on various roller wheel sets. Condition of the rollers vary from store to store as does the temperature in the trailer. I carried a squirrel cage fan and reeled extension cord with me in the summer, and have a top of the line set of bib overalls for winter.
Premier's main fault is they have too much work!!??? But being a non forced dispatch company, that'll only affect you if you let it. It's great if you wanna stay out longer to make some extra coin.

I would recommend them to any of my friends who enjoy working. This is NOT a steering wheel holder kind of job, you'll spend as much time in the trailer as the driver seat.

This is not a good fit for experienced drivers. More for driving school graduates to get some experience and move on than a career move. The company pay structure is mileage and ( if applicable ) stop pay rather than hourly due to poor scheduling, dispatches and wasted time. Lot's of unpaid waiting and looking for trailers time. Their training is erratic, repetitive and incomplete at best. It consists of 3 total days. 2 days, 8 hours each of watching videos requiring tests that must be passed and a summary of the initial stops you'll be assigned with significant unpaid waiting time  paying a total of 200.00 for an offer to be presented and accepted. Then 1 day riding with a trainer listed as co-driver for 13 hours being paid per diem. All earnings paid at the first pay period the following week. They advertise routes available with steady lanes giving you guaranteed income and home daily. This isn't so. Start and finish times, work schedules, mileage and off days vary and change without notice. The pay is .65 mile, better than most and 30.00  ( if applicable ) stop pay with a permanent route. Good luck with that. Most drivers are assigned random local mileage unpaid drop and hook work. There are several available weekly trips to Scranton, Pa. or New Jersey overnights to obtain the higher pay rates but with lots of unpaid waiting time for trailers. New employees are mileage only drop and hook, trips average 2-4 hours. The Lowes account is terrible. Poorly scheduled and dispatched loads. Strictly drop and hook mileage pay. Lot's of unpaid waiting time, long check in and check out lines at Lowes Distribution Center in Plainfield, Ct.

In all of my life I've never worked in a place like this. You are given hardly any training, forced to work in harsh conditions(The dust there was so bad that you needed to wear a mask constantly to avoid respiratory infections), and if you're a good worker, you are heaped upon with all the work you can physically handle(And then some). The management plays favorites and often lets workers that they like slack off and do whatever they please, while others are forced to do their work. The hours are not regular at all; sometimes, during the holiday season you're working mandatory 7 days a week, but other times your are sent home early. During my time there, I was lied to on multiple occasions about when I would be going home, how many trucks there were to do, or whether or not a problem would be resolved. Equipment hardly gets any maintenance and is often found to be non-functional or barely functional(I once saw a Hi-lo that had had a leaky hydraulic line for months, eventually break and spray hydraulic fluid 20+ feet across one of the main work areas). All in all, I wouldn't recommend working here to anyone who values their life, health, or regularity of pay.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Interacting with the people. Going lots of places

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Long hours at night, driving while the whole bus is asleep

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
You feel like you are on a team. The company treats us well

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Coming in about 2 hours early to pretrip everything on the bus, make sure there is no problems. Make sure bus is clean and is filled with fuel. Research your directions and the group you are picking up. Put coordinates in your GPS. Make sure you know where you are going, and that you are a little early to get there. Head to the pickup destination, get your people greet them, stow their luggage. Tell them the safety procedures and rules. Take them where they are going. Answer all questions they have keep everyone safe while arriving at your destination. Wait on them, while they check in. Post trip the bus. Either stay on the bus or go with them if they want you to. Do the exactly same thing in reverse

Very laid back shop no rushing you go to faster. But management in forrrest park is the worst I've ever seen. They are killing the company. The employees work hard. mandatory 50 hrs a week no overtime pay at all. I worked average 55hrs a week for straight pay. The boss I had was cool and laid back but they hired another boss when he quit and this guy couldn't fix his shoelaces but corporate thought he was gold because he said yes to everything. Bottom line is I worked very hard for my check and put in 55 hrs a week straight pay and it was never good enough for corporate in Georgia and the new boss expected more while he sat on a chair and watched. Wouldn't recommended it to anyone. The pay isn't worth it. To top it off I left and they found out where I went to work and they called my new job and had me fired by threatening to pull their business from them. Not a professional company at all. Fire all corporate and the place would be great to work even without overtime pay.

This company disgusts me. They knowingly hire racists and addicts  who will use on company property and let them slide right by while actual hard working individuals are harassed and out down on a DAILY basis. Not to forget that the shop supervisor doctors his drug tests and they let that slide. If you have any common sense you will literally work any where else. You are better off panhandling. They will promise a raise then not deliver except except to the white employees. If they don't fire you first, because of course they don't want to pay our UI, then they will try to bully you into quitting. After numerous emails to the CEO, CFO and others about their racist tech shop supervisor, I have yet to hear back. They do not care about you. They will fire you for no reason in the middle of an economic collapse and worldwide pandemic without due cause and completely screw you and your family. This company should be SHUT DOWN. Run like Forest Gump and don't stop.

Manager belittles employees.  Good and loyal workers paid less than inexperienced newcomers (whom all quit after a few weeks/months at most).  Terrible yards and yard equipment.  LOTS of favoritism.  Manager at my facility cares about himself and his new supervisor minion ONLY!.. treats everyone else poorly. They destroyed the good, tight knit team that we used to have.

DO NOT expect raises! Expensive benefits. PAY SHORTED ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK WITHOUT FAIL! Always told it will get better, but only gets worse, especially after the GM left. UNSAFE and unhealthy environment. Always wonder when one of the craters will tip a trailer over. New minion/supervisor  allowed to physically assault coworkers.

Forest park really needs to investigate this facility and fix a lot of problems. 

Everyone seems to have a different opinion of Premier but i am the only current Yard Dog at the Evansville location who is full time. I love what i do i feel like i am part of something and that i am needed. Don't get me wrong i butt heads with certain people from time to time but it's never anything that can't be handled. I have been with them for a little over a year now and yes the Yard kind of sucks but the trucks are nice and the pay is great. If you like overtime there is always an opportunity to get it. Don't let the opinions of others keep you from an opportunity to make money. It is a fast paced job but it is a good job and if you are a people person then for the most part you will like the people you work with and the people you work for. They really appreciate their drivers and they show it. I absolutely would not give a review like this to a company who didn't treat me well. Apply for the job give it a try and you can form your own opinion. But if you like being home daily this is a great job to have.

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Truck driver 1607 salaries reported	$1,779 per week
Yard driver 73 salaries reported	$24.98 per hour
Local driver 59 salaries reported	$1,319 per week
Dispatcher 2 salaries reported	$51,000 per year
Diesel mechanic 19 salaries reported	$28.71 per hour

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