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Standard Forwarding LLC

Upper management has determined it necessary to shut down the Decatur terminal, effective late Oct. or early Nov. 2020.  All to save a little over $100k.  Yet, the company sends out a stipend for all employees as a thank you for making it through COVID.  The stipend totally wiped out any savings closing the Deatur terminal down would have generated.  They will lose a couple of million in Decatur area customers alone.  There is an ulterior motive.  To make matters worse, management sent out DHL hats and trinkets to the Decatur employees who are losing their jobs and keeps sending them messages asking them to help recruit for new drivers.  Talk about clueless and crass!  The Decatur terminal was a self-managed terminal.  Customers were taken care of very well and the drivers went out of their way to cater to various customers who needed pickups and deliveries at certain times, trailers dropped, etc.  These customers will not be able to have this service once the Decatur terminal closes.  You simply cannot do it from Indiana in the same timely fashion.  Those customers are going to bail.  Some have already said it.  Standard's management used a three month snapshot in the height of the COVID pandemic to represent the reason the terminal should be shut down.  The terminal is now so busy they don't have enough help.   Again, there has to be an ulterior motive.  

What is the best part of working at the company?
So far so good. Great benefits...probably the best in the industry. Decent pay and a ton of hours. If you like to work, Standard is the place. 
Right now Oshkosh is going through transition with picking up new accounts that are keeping our docks packed. We could use a bigger terminal that's for sure and I suppose one is in the plans. 
All in all no complaints and like being a part of the team there. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Getting to know a new rout where I am unfamiliar with the area and places of pick up. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The environment is good. People are helpful and kind. Mostly old timer professionals that like myself, are there to do their job and not be in people's business

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
My start time is 9:30 AM which for me is good. My route takes until 4 to 5 which usually ends up with covering more pick ups that are needed. That usually ends my day around 10ish.

Was told through the help wanted add, and though a recruiter that the pay was upwards of 25 bucks an hour starting.... its not. Was told the job was M-F with optional Saturday work.... its not. Was told the hours of operation for drivers starts as early as 6am and as late as 1pm..... they don't. Basically, three different people told me three different things from the recruiter call to my first day. I was there for a week to be a driver, spent the whole week in the warehouse and no one kept any tabs on me. After your first two years, getting any additional Vacation time takes an additional 7 years. Being stuck in a union that may offer great benefits, but you're going to be stuck working the shifts no one wants, including you. for the next 10-15 years as some of the most senior guys have 20 years or more time in the company. The union also hasn't authorized a max raise for employees for some time, and they MAY get it in this years negotiations. 

   This nearly 90 year old company was at  one time the best LTL carrier to work for in the Midwest. The company was family owned all those years up until about 9 years ago when DHL purchased it. At first things were much the same, but in the last few years it has taken a turn for the worse.
   The company has all but eliminated most of the sales staff, choosing to use telemarketing and email to solicit customers. This has resulted in a loss of customers, a shrinking of the company, and now terminal closings.
   I would not recommend working for this company as it's future is very much in doubt, with the current leadership in place. 

Terminal manager says all the right things but then does the opposite; his actions speak louder than his words. Drivers all have an attitude. But the pay is pretty good.  The equipment is in awful shape, and you never know what your route is until the time you show up, which makes things very stressful because you don't know what you will be doing or where you will be going.

In my 23 years in the transportation industry i have never seen such a lack of cooperation, professionalism, sexist management in a company. I was witness to management stealing vacation days, as well as office equipment and proved it to corporate management and absolutely nothing was done. I never seen management treat customers, and employees with such a lack of disrespect in my life and would not recommend anyone to work for such a company as well as ship with such a company.

The people, for the most part, are great. The problem is that everyone is stressed out because management keeps piling more and more responsibilities on everyone, Employees are being asked to take on new responsibilities without extra resources and training. Therefore, many of the staff are stretched thin and are responsible for areas for which they have had little to no training. There is a lack of understanding and support from management. Supervisors do not have your back.

Most of Management is pretty cool, if you want the hours they are there to work, the pay atrocious but the Health insurance is second to none. The trucks are outdated and the forklifts are even worse, but they get the job done (most of the time). Like any other sister company of a corporation, high profit and next to zero expenses is the goal.... so don't expect new or updated anything. HR and front office are "woke" 

I loved working here. However, there is little care for an employees home life. Schedules were consistently changing with little notice and absenteeism was not tolerated. I was forced to find childcare on short notice and varying schedules. I missed out on a lot of my childs infancy due to the fact that they made me work all three shifts interchangeably throughout the week. It is mentally and physically exhausting to have such varying schedules. Not suitable for people with young children.

Laid back company, good place to get experience. Below average pay. Teamsters are suppose to set the standard for pay. Not here. Start out at 90% scale 18.66. Takes 2 years to scale. At the end of the contract in 2021 (spring) will be at 22.14 . Today in 2019 most places are starting drivers between $23-$25 a hour. Nice equipment. You will work the dock for 5 hours at night. Also they are central states. That will go insolvent by 2025

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