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Sharp-Transit,-LLC

First off this job is not hard and kinda straight forward but it is highly annoying. The pallet jacks do all the heavy lifting at the warehouse as you run around in the freezer, cooler and dry area and the stores backroom could be hella crowded. you will do a lot of walking at stores, pallet jack is walk behind) pallet jacks at the warehouse you ride and does two pallets at a time. BUT if a pallet falls while you are loading your trailer because it was poorly wrapped which is almost everyday so pay attention you will pick it all up 95 percent of the time NO other driver will help you and it’s laughable if the dock supervisors will do anything. Not the night dock guys are decent though and Especially at the stores if they are open the associates will not help. You will tolerate a whole different world at the aldi warehouse you misstep even if it’s extremely minor with any employee they Tattletale on you as quick as you can say the word. The sharp drivers love drama and gossip so STAY to yourself this is not a family environment. You will work many hours. You will not at first get to pick the stores you want to run that “pays” the most. Older drivers get that. The management communication skills are extremely poor. You will never have a set start time till you have “seniority” it will be late at night, you will be told you are getting a percentage of the load for the store but when you ask for invoice to see if you are actually getting that percentage they won’t show you. No transparency. They make sure to tell you that there is guns in the terminal and they have had drivers threaten to come back and do bad things to everyone in it. That’s why they have them 🤦‍♂️ big red flag! You are guaranteed 1k a week for 30 days. My experience, I meet the owner Mr sharp on my 4th day. Which is unusual because he lives in Florida enjoying his money. But for whatever reason he had to come flaunt his birthday gift from his wife at our terminal 120k plus custom f250 he honked the air and made sure we all knew he was there. Now I don’t normally give a hoot about this stuff but what bothered me is this dude had the kahunas to show this truck off when ALL the trucks you drive are hammy downs from other terminals. With sleepers and million miles and really cruddy and lots of issue with Christmas light dash boards. Ac barley works in most of the trucks and this guy.... well you get it. The upper management driving sports cars and here I am working 14 hours and keeping to myself and made 199 dollars one night. Averaging 14 to 19 a hour. Total. Now yes I was guaranteed 1k a week but you can track what you are getting paid so if you go over the 1k you get that. Everyone said a new pay raise was implemented randomly I looked and all my pay was lowered 25 to 30 dollars each store and shows 2017 sharp pay scale all of a sudden. I mention it I got no answer. THEN I had a medical issue. Was extremely painful and told them via text as I needed to get to the hospital. No response and I basically disappeared for 4 days. Because I was under pain meds and was Out of it. No one called me. No one responded to my text. It made me feel I was worthless. I texted the HR director. Waited hours and hours and got one phone call finally at this point I am furious! Here I am traveling 97 miles round trip for this job and these guys couldn’t even call me or respond and make sure I was ok. Long story short in 3 weeks I found I was just a monkey for them to make all the money while I starved. They have had according to a senior driver 200 plus drivers turn rate in 60 days. That’s ridiculous. You are nothing to these people. So be aware. You are not paid right for these annoyances that I may have not covered because it’s really just to much to type if I keep going, but these are the big points but you will soon find out on your own, so Good luck.

I loved my co-workers. We all worked 70 hours per week to keep the place afloat. The customer, Aldi, absolutely hates Sharp Transit and blames the drivers for any sort of damage or error. Their specialty is blaming the drivers for warehouse mistakes (poorly built pallets, putting dry produce on top of cooler product so when the driver puts in the backroom they can pursue a claim, etc). Management did what they could for the drivers, especially the Terminal Manager and Maintenance Manager but there wasn't any more they could do. The equipment is routinely broken down and you're expected to run it into the ground. The company is so small that vendors have Sharp Transit as a last priority. I felt bad for the drivers as their "driver manager." The route pays are advertised as 35.5% of total route revenue, but they aren't. Many times the routes are around 25-30% of pay and a driver can make a whooping $135 for an 8 hour day going to Knoxville, a solid $17 an hour. The warehouse is routinely behind so drivers burn hours waiting on their loads to finish before they start on an 8-14 hour day. Upper management is all former drivers with no prior business experience. The Terminal Manager was told one thing and then another by conflicting Operations Managers that wanted to play games and not take credit for the downfall of each terminal. I was let go after they decided budget cuts, after being told 3 months earlier I would receive a raise after hitting my 1 year with the company. Recently all but 1 of the 5 office staff members I worked with quit because they couldn't handle being with the company anymore. You will be called routinely on your off days, if you're lucky enough to get one.

This was the absolute worst company I have ever driven for in my 12 year Professional Truck Driving career, and I only worked there for a week. It did not take me long to realize just what kind of company I was going to be dealing with. They start you out at ten dollars an hour for three days, during that time you are asked (as a Driver) to load your own trailer. So your day consist of you loading your own truck, delivering the freight that you loaded, loading all the store material that is to be returned to the warehouse, arriving at the warehouse, unloading materials picked up from the store and then you repeat the process for another run or two. I had an accident that wasn't my fault involving a swing door, I did my pre-trip and documented that my trailer was missing a door hook to hold it in place once door was opened. I brought it to the attention on the on site mechanic who then informed me that they had no hooks on site that they were on order. After that I went to the so called (fleet manager) and informed him of the situation, at which time he instructed me to go ahead and drive that trailer as is because its the only available trailer we have on the yard. To make a long story short they penalized me for their mistake and on top of that, they kept my last pay check. I am 44 years old, I have held many positions in my life including the military, but (SHARP TRANSIT IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST COMPANY I HAVE EVER WORKED FOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Was told at the initial interview that this job was very fast paced. Also that it’d take awhile for me to pick it up. They did inform me that it wouldn’t be driving full time and that I’d be on the dock when not driving. So upon starting the job I found out how incredibly easy the job was to pick up. The people they employee talk as if it should take weeks. I picked it up in hours. Yet the training employees while nice aren’t very bright. I felt insulted by it in a sense. Secondly you’ll do almost no driving on a normal work week as a cdl b driver. You’ll assist cdl a drivers grab their skids for their trucks. Even on a “fast day” it is incredibly slow and quite boring to say the least. All the employees complain about working when in all reality you don’t work too hard. I will say the day supervisors on the dock are professional and have some smarts, along with the terminal manager. No problems with them at all. Night shift supervisor is paid to be incredibly lazy in comparison. Job isn’t that hard at all, I just like to stay busy busy busy. I guess other people’s idea of busy can’t live up to what I want or am used to. Unfortunately most people want to do the bare minimum and employers have to conform to lazy employees.

The current practices are not only exhausting but also unfair to employees.

Drivers are regularly required to work 14 to 16-hour shifts, leaving little to no time for adequate rest. This raises serious safety concerns.

Management pressures employees to work on their days off, even when they are recovering from the strenuous workweek. In some cases, there are threats for not coming in.

There is no flexibility for personal appointments or family time, despite the demands of the job.

Safety bonuses are frequently withheld for questionable or unjustified reasons.

Calling off for any reason, including illness or emergencies, results in write-ups and disciplinary action.

Compensation is unfair, with drivers only being paid per load, not for all the hours spent driving. Some employees are working 14-hour shifts for as little as $200, which does not reflect the true labor involved.


These conditions create an unsafe and unsustainable work environment. I urge the company to review its policies to ensure fair compensation, reasonable working hours, and respect for employee 

 



If your truck driving especially newer absolutely stay away from this place. The pay is horrible dispatch is horrible management is extremely horrible they don't know the first thing of what they're doing. They don't care or respect you at all they will micromanage you to Oblivion and are actively looking everyday for something to write you up for even if it's very small and Petty and not a big deal. I can go on and on about how much of a horrible place this is but I don't feel like they deserve my time seeing how they expect me to work for free sometimes also FYI you don't get your first raise of $1.10 until 5 years so take that into consideration there's also no so called extra money to be made here there's no overtime pay there is no as they call it extra money TV made and you're not going to get the advertising pay until 5 years and that's a busting you're back a lot. As far as management goes I guess we will just hire anybody that can walk

This “JOB” advertisement is a LIE in order to you as a new driver get a second load you have to “saki saki” and be friends with all the different dispatchers you will get there at 12am but have to wait 2-3 hours in your car or in a little room they got amd you will see how they say there no trucks o loads but the older driver comes in and put doin two to 3 loads a day and they by making almost 80k not having a life working 10am to 12am they don’t carr about there trucks or trailers I GOT THE BIGGEST REGRET to be working with this company don’t believe in the recruiter they act like your friends to bring you in after that you never see them again. AGAIN BE CAREFUL WITH SMILES IN THIS JOB EVERYONE THERE IS A BACK STABBER JUST SO THEY CAN HAVE MORE LOADS FOR THE SENIOR DRIVERS APPLY AT YOUR OWN RISK THIS A JOB A FOR SINGLE YOUNG PERSONA WITH 0 experiences in driving but not for a a 2+ year driver

Honesty this is the most unorganized company i have ever seen in my life, first of all you have to load your own truck and if you dont load your own truck they deduct money from you, so example say if you have to take a load that only going to pay you $65 for that load and you decide to have the warehouse guys load your truck or you are running late and the warehouse guys load your truck they will automatically take $25 from your load pay, dispatch will tell you that you are to come in at 9pm but when you get there you have to sit between 2 to 6 hours just to wait on a truck because they dont have enough equipment for all the drivers with no detention pay, training sucks bad, they only train you for a couple of days and then say you are on your own, all there truck are trash with over a million miles on them and half of them the AC doesnt work, low pay for the amount of work you do, trust when i say you will regret applying to this job

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing, unless you are favored by the EVP’s assistant. If she likes you, you can have normal work days. If she doesn’t, there are extra rules that only apply to you. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Being micro-managed by the EVP’s assistant, even though they stress the fact that they don’t micro-manage. However, she gets to come and go as she pleases. Has a 4-day work week, stays fine from the office most of the day. But you can’t do anything without her approval and she’s not even the boss. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Backstabbing, two-faced, favoritism, rules only apply to certain people. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Miserable and lacks morale. Team building exercises are only for certain people. Others are left out of everything even company pictures.

This job was a last resort for me to be home locally. I was sold on making really good money but have yet to see that. Management lies about your pay and then tries to cheat you. You literally have to watch your pay every week and fight for what you’ve rightly earned. This is not uncommon and most drivers talk amongst one another about how the mgr here cheats you. The equipment is horrible. Trailers catch on fire and they will try to blame you for the loss of product even if you’ve previously reported the issue to maintenance. The culture is very divided and communication between employees is almost split down racial lines. I have personally waited three hours for a truck and promised detainment pay only to be told it’s factored into the 200 daily pay. But to then find out I actually don’t get paid the 200 fee and won’t until I call to management and complain.

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