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Roy Miller Freight Lines

A cozy little company to work at, which I only left due to moving out of state. All the office personnel and other drivers were great to work with.  All the drivers in my position were on the same pay scale, so I never had to worry about whether I was being paid fairly compared to others, and there were some pay raises (several in the several years I was there). The shop will fix anything you write up on your truck and usually get it done quick without you having to borrow a loaner truck. The shop guys even helped me out when I had car troubles (a flat tire and a dead battery)! Doing local deliveries I never had to work weekends or holidays (only the line guys do some weekend days). As I started later in the day (noonish) I mainly did pickups with occasional deliveries, drivers that started earlier did most of the deliveries. You don't have a set list of stops to complete for pickups, they just fit you where they can with the time you have as the day progresses. Stops varied some from day to day, a mix of regular customers, customers I'd only been to a few times, and customers I'd never been to before. Generally with one longer run at the end of the day just to swap trailers. Alot of moving pallets with a pallet jack at places without docks, and some places with docks where they can drive the forklift on your trailer. If a situation seems unsafe you can veto going there. Worst part of the job was moving pallets around in the back of the trailer on a super hot summer day, sometimes I'd be doing 16 heavy paint/cement pallets in one stop in the heat. I was glad to get a workout while at work though, and being in Southern California the other three seasons were great for doing hard work outside. I did not feel like I was being overworked, but I knew some drivers there who felt like they weren't getting enough hours and some who felt they were getting too many. So be sure to communicate with dispatch if you're dissatisfied with the hours, I had a good relationship of communication with them and felt that they would work with me if I needed help with hours. They certainly helped me with other requests, like last-minute time off for an appointment or getting out of work earlier to pick up visitors from the airport.

Let's start off by have the driver continuly calling dispatch to find out the start time for the next day. You might be calling very late in the night and finally they tell you your start time for the next day which is never consistent. That is absolutely terrible. The next is the cameras. Yes they are great incase you get into an accident or drive irresponsible.  But the driver facing camera is recording and your nose itches than the radio goes off. Driver could you pull over when it is safe. So you do that and dispatch ask you why did you take your hands off the wheel. Umm my nose itched so I scratched it. The benefits are extremely expensive. But you do work five days a week. 

Great place to work Monday through Friday 9 to 5:00 job good benefits. 
The Roy Miller team throughout California is very good at what they do and that's pick up and deliver commodities to and from local California businesses if it weren't for the covid pandemic,I would still be working there. 

The only thing I got to say is that it's only part time would love to work my 8hours their I'm sure if it was full time people would stay their I think that's why dock worker/forklift operator don't last their because of the part time management not a problem their it's the part time and this is from a workers point of view I'm a family man with kids so I would say this job would be perfect for someone that's young with no kids part time perfect for some with no kids other than that good company to work for

What is the best part of working at the company?
Good co working staff .On time payment.Flexible hours.Home daily. Clean trucks.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Always calling to the dispatch 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Really good .Enthusiastic.Good maintenance 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Pre trip inspection and doing the route and lot of manifestation

This was a great company to work for. By far my favorite job so far. The dispatch is great, and the other drivers are all friendly and the pay is competitive. I only worked there for about six months because I moved to Utah and they are a California-based company. Benefits kick in quickly. They are free to the drivers. Pay is $20.10 an hour. If I ever move back to California I would beg for my job back.

Daily sales calls, daily cold calls, 10 hour days. Keeping the customer base happy with the service, fixing problems for the customers.Prospecting for new accounts and giving quotes for new business and growing the business. Attending operations and sales meetings to make sure both departtments are on the same page and to cut off any problems that might arise before they happen.

What is the best part of working at the company?

There are not many hours and they promise you overtime and there is no

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?

Many promises and do not keep and does not give you an increase in salary.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?

Not any of them are all equal.

liked working weekdays and weekends off . Just hard not knowing til 10 oclock sometimes previous night your schedule for following morning. So you have to be ready to come in at 6 am or wait til noon. So you have to be available . Work day goes by fast when busy.

Unstable schedule . I learned how a company can operate without structure, along with unsafe equipment and practices is dangerous. Work culture, low morale, I would not recommend this place to any one except to warn drivers of the dangers working here . 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 4 salaries reported	$31.13 per hour
Local driver 13 salaries reported	$27.54 per hour
Dock worker 10 salaries reported	$19.40 per hour
Shuttle driver 5 salaries reported	$32.10 per hour
Yard hostler 2 salaries reported	$19.75 per hour

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