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Quickway Carriers

Your typical day at work is to find a truck, you slip seat, then get your assignment from dispatch. You will be either delivering milk, bread or grocery to different Kroger stores around Indiana, and Illinois. The routes range anywhere from about 100 miles to over 600 miles and from 4 stops to 12 stops depending on if you have bread or milk. 

The job itself wasn’t that bad until the milk was picked up. Now most of us are lucky to work less than 65 hrs a week. We are being worked to death working at least 65 hrs a week now. We have approached the terminal manager multiple times about a pay raise and we are told “it’s not in the budget”! Yeah whatever! A few have left to go elsewhere for the same pay or a tad more or tad less and do less work. Especially if you go right down the road to Pepsi you can make the same pay with a lot less hrs and a lot less wear and tear on your bodies!

You only get 2 personal days a whole year, no sick time at all so if you get sick and have to call in multiple times they’ll suspend you because they don’t care and you didn’t have a note for the flu or a really bad migraine where you can’t focus! However the dot rules clearly state you can’t operate a cmv if under the weather or can’t focus or can’t focus properly or too tired or sick to drive! Yes because everyone can go and pay a $75 copay with their company insurance each time they get sick if it’s not major just to get a doctors note. You Don’t get vacation until your year mark and same every year afterwards. 

The ops manager is a great guy and some of the stores are nice to go to and the trucks are newer/new  but that’s about it. I thought it was a good company and it’s not bad just overworked and underpaid. If we got a pay raise to compensate for the work that we do, for the constant wear and tear that we put our bodies through it might help, or even if we got over time pay with our current pay of $28 hr it would be a lot better as well. Overall be prepared to get over worked, underpaid and have to deal with a lot of rude stores because the product want in there when they wanted it!

This review is strictly about my experience working with Quickway delivering milk out of Newark, Ohio.

Hauling milk is no joke. Milk crates are stacked on skids over 6 feet high. There's 54 milk crates to a full skid, and each crate holds 4 gallons. that's 216 gallons of milk on one skid. If a skid isn't stacked or strapped properly, you can be in for a long day. If you have to brake hard, swerve, or back down an incline, you can be in for a long day. Some very nice people at some stores will help you clean up if you knock over a skid, most will not. A vocal minority of Kroger dock workers will treat you poorly if you lose a skid, but usually they will leave you alone to clean up.

Management is very understanding, and they have a policy of not crying over spilled milk. 

It's hard to plan your workday out because you have a set window of when you will start, and sometimes due to issues at the dairy, your start time could be way outside of your start window. Usually there's a 4 hour window for pickup, for example noon to 4pm. Most shifts are about 8 hours, but if you lose a few skids and have a lot of stops, you can easily work 14+ hours. Also, delivering at Kroger stores mean you may have to wait on other vendors to deliver before you can. God forbid the Pepsi guy knocks over a few skids while you're waiting, you could be at a store for hours waiting. 

Also Kroger stores are generally staffed with a few adults and an army of kids. This means finding the right person to sign off on your delivery can be tricky sometimes, especially if you're in a poorly run store. 

The work is monotonous, and you must be very attentive to what you're doing. If you allow yourself to be distracted, you could easily hit a bump with the powerjack and have to clean up 216 gallons of milk in an instant. You will get stronger from lifting and stacking 34 lbs of milk constantly.

Pay is above average, but you work for it.

Management is fantastic, very understanding, and laid back. If you need to call off for anything, they'll more than likely understand. 

Okay job overall at the Newark terminal but third shift dispatcher is a person who always find something to nitpick and f with you about if he doesn't like you and it is more than very annoying. Other than that just do your job and make sure you log correctly and you should be okay. The big minus about this job in my opinion are some of the Kroger employees you have to deal with. I'm not lying, some of them you really have to use your restraint because they will make snide comments to you and make you want to lose your job and catch an assault charge on top of it. Another minus is the slip seating but doesn't really make sense to let drivers keep the tractor with what we do. I would like to see better equipment and a Qualcomm instead of a PeopleNet. If you are lazy then this place is not for you. It's an easy job to deal with the milk once you get the hang of it but if you are a lazy, you will not last the first week. That's a promise...

Leadership is nonexistent, morale is in the toilet, they target employees from executive level down. Received death threats for standing up against racism, they refused to acknowledge situation. They cut off the heads of the useful idiots running the place and then brought in a husband & wife team of new useful idiots to clean house. They are penny wise, pound foolish.  They run the place like technology doesn't exist. They run their drivers into the ground and don't care about retention.  Day Shift Dispatcher, who wants to be ops mgr plays favoritism and does dirty work for management acting as if they are not expendable themselves.  They pay their Dispatchers on salary even when Wage & Hour says it is unlawful not to pay overtime.  Much better places, like fast food, to work than this joke of a trucking company.

On your work day in Knoxville:  Show up at the yard on time.  Get a phone call about 30 minutes after saying "I'm stuck on I-40".  Sit and wait.  
On the work day before your day off:  The load from Murfreesboro will automatically be a minimum of 2 hours late due to problems in the bakery.  They have what used to be 3 routes combined into two because they want to save money on equipment.  So one of the routes is overloaded with product and must leave it behind at the yard with no protection from the rain or critters.  You need to come back later and pick it up lengthening your day.
You will get paid great money... But don't bother asking for a day off.  "Oh I don't think I can do that..."  is what you'll hear from the boss.

Been with Quickway for 10 years. They have never lead me astray with promises of promotion or pay. Quickway rewards their employees based off of performance while maintaining a safe, honest and professional work environment. Throughout my 10 years I've found staff to be very professional and personal. What I've enjoyed most is having the Corporate Office care so much about the people out in the field of Operations. 

Truck Drivers get to benefit from a dedicated contract with an extremely reputable customer while being home daily. Competitive pay for the market with an extraordinary benefit package that can not be matched.

We hire you, so we can fire you! If you don't do what they want you to do. Seniority does not mean anything. If you brown nose then you can get whatever you want even get away with physically assaulting other drivers and keeping their job while the victim is terminated. Hard work, dedication and devotion to this company does not mean anything. The only thing that matters is what corporate wants. They fire people like the best terminal manager they could possibly get after dumping 2 other terminals on him for a total of 3, then not give him the support he needs to succeed! Fired without a real reason and not given help but unemployment.

Where do I start?… salary is not guaranteed. Make good money one week next week make less. The lack of communication between management, milk company, and drivers drives me crazy. Never received vouchers for boots and had to beg for hat and safety vest. Equipment is well kept. You don’t receive PTO until after your first year. Pay scale sucks. The more miles you drive the less you make per mile. You bid on schedule by seniority but if you have not seniority you are forced to work on your days off. If you don’t come in they consider a no call no show. Work life balance doesn’t matter to this company. Also you have to calculate your money every week. Was missing money multiple times on my checks.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Gives me time to look for another job

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
All the micro management.  They tell when to arrive at terminal they plan all the departure times and don't take big city traffic into consideration 


What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The equipment is sub par. No refrigerator apu don't work no bunk heaters, and get mad at you when you let the truck idle

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful Management consists of the owners kids that are only there for a pay check and could care less if you make it home on time

Quickway is a great company to work for. I was in a non-fault truck wreck and received some injuries that want let me Drive a semi truck right now. Because of my injury I am unable to lift heavy objects or stand for long periods of time that is the only reason I'm looking for some part time work now. If I am never able to drive a truck again I hope to get back to a full time job soon. The best part about Quickway is as long as you get your job done and do it right you never have any problem with the Boss.

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