tire technician

service technician

delivery driver

truck driver

warehouse associate

Southern Tire Mart

The job is very stressful, dirty and unorganized.  Employees are not valued and a work life balance is not possible working for this company.  No training is provided and very little if any information is shared with employees.  The harder you work the more you are expected to do.  Others do nothing and continue to get the same pay as the ones that work very hard.  Raises are promised and never delivered.  They know when they can take advantage of their employees and do so. The plant is dirty and it is pretty sad when you don't feel like you can go to the restroom during the day because the employee restrooms are so filthy.  The corporation does not provide any incentives or recognition for the employees unless you are in management.  When the weather is 100 degrees outside the employees who are underpaid and work hard are not even offered a place to occasionally cool down or even offered any cold drinks to carry them through the day.  When it's cold you have to find a way to make sure you stay warm.  Either way it's all about getting the job done with no consideration for the employee who is making it happen.

So I went to work on my first day and was not even given any kind of safety speech or training just taken into the warehouse and put to work.  Everyone around seemed more interested in standing around on their  phones,smoking, or talking rather than actually helping me to learn what my job was and apparently asking questions on whether or not I was doing the job correctly made me “lazy”and so further help was refused.  Overall the work itself was not to hard but the environment and the employees where terrible the only helpful person was the lady who did my paperwork. Apparently things are not communicated either as I left after the first night there but the lady handling my paperwork was not informed and she called me four days later to finish giving me my info believing that I still worked there.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I love what I do. Warehouse work has always been my passion 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Speaking of the store I work in. Management lacks ability to lead the employees. The employees pretty much tell leadership what they will do and not do. Team members (I use loosely) are not held accountable of the duties they are responsible for. With their lack of accountability creates a void between outside sales orders being filled even tho I have tires and rims staged for mounting. Short opinion techs have no motivation and leadership just lets it ride

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Strains young guys that every step has to be pointed out. 
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Many times a tech is put on a job, then pulled in the middle of that job to start another. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Open warehouse prepare for trucks unload and put away inventory pull orders for customers truck and orders for salesmen

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part were the coworkers  the job takes so much away from you far as your body but offers so small of pay for the price your body will pay in the long run. Before Tim the previous Store Manger left he was such a honorable man he had the company exceeding expectations in sales and keeping the employees feeling appreciated. When power changed the company decline dramatically so many guys who where there 20+ years got fired and well you know the rest. The compis a could be, if that makes any sense lol, depending on who's running the company

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack of appreciation from Store Manger 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Use to be like a family until power change

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Depending on your work ethic I could be a long drowsy day or a short productive day.

A typical day at this job was waking up at 5:30am and working a 12 hour shift five days a week and off on weekends. I learned alot over there i didnt know how to do with tires besides change it if you have a flat. Also learn how to drive a forklift and stack the right way. The managment was so cool like they know how to talk to people the right way. They joke with there employees just to show love to them not so up type and mean. My co-workers was so good show me everything i needed to know to get the job done. Lot old guys who like to mess witht the young but other then that they was funny to be around and very helpful. The Hardest part of my job was learning how to stack all the tires high in the warehouse without making them fall. The most enjoyable part of my job was weekends off and getting paid every friday. And also when they did the big carfish boil for the co-workers and all the comapines they had contracts with would come thou and eat with us.

My shift lead was amazing, but the shop manager was a nightmare to work with. A typical day wasn't anything too different from other commercial trucking shops. You can learn a lot, depending on what you already know. Management strictly depends on who is doing what. Again, my shift lead was great- but the manager has actually made a lot of people just stop coming to work and quit, and has no capacity to realize he's the issue. Work place culture also depends. My shift was super laid back, and it was really nice. The hardest part of the job for me was being scheduled a full shift week, then being on call two days in a row. The most enjoyable part for me was my coworkers. Again, my shift may have just been different.

Main take-away: Make sure your on-call shifts don't drain your soul- otherwise you'll be VERY burnt out doing this job very quickly.

great company to work for as well as a great enviroment , always willing to help me advance yourself and teach so that I was able to learn  , worked as a team as well as one on one training , always learned new things. Managment was friendly and helpful and understood when problems would arise they were very helpful towards their employees. The hardest part of the job was being in a new enviroment with no prior experience but they were very hands on in teaching and helping myself advance and learn.. The most enjoyable part was working on vehicles, helping people , working as team first and foremost and always learning something new everyday . I enjoyed my job and enjoyed learning for my coworkers as well they were helping me in every aspect . Clean up after ourselves as a team and work together .

I worked for Southern Tire Mart often on for two years I enjoyed the hard work and love the money it took me a long time to get where I wanted to be at hourly and used to enjoy it but once I told him that I wasn’t able to work 65 and 75 hours a week and couldn’t do calls anymore because I had a newborn kid my experience there started to go bad I was treated differently after that not only that there was definitely a lot of drug use and when it was brought to the managers attention I feel like he favored those who are using due to being underpaid and expendable versus somebody who doesn’t use definitely a lack of management and bad leader ship wouldn’t recommend working at Southern tire Mart because they want to take all the hours I can honey I do not work around people who have families or other outside work activities or appointments.

It’s a commercial tire shop, typical day is mounting and dismounting tires, all day everyday, the usual. But, it’s . Management is trash with constant contradictions. Their “fleet work” at waste connections is a joke with different standards for everyone and a commission rate that doesn’t make sense. I worked for them for 3 days and should’ve quit day one. When management AND supervisor started cussing out an 18 year old for supposedly misplacing a wheel. Can’t speak for them all, but this location is literally the worst tire shop I’ve ever worked for. 0 stars do not recommend. 

I was very impressed with southern tire mart.  I took a short term assignment for one year to assist with staffing and a significant inventory/theft issue. I was to receive my own store after this assignment. I was able to resolve the issue and improve the inventory issues. Historically this location struggled with theft issues.  once I resolved the issue I was told that they really liked me in that location due to my inventory successes. This location took constant follow-up and internal procedural audits to keep the theft down. Store manager focused on sales and left the inventory issues up to me. culture did not change, i was just there to catch thieves and maintain inventories.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Tire technician 13 salaries reported	$17.50 per hour
Service technician 2 salaries reported	$1,500 per day
Delivery driver 10 salaries reported	$19.40 per hour
Truck driver 13 salaries reported	$23.15 per hour
Warehouse associate 2 salaries reported	$19.50 per hour

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