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Venture Logistics

Venture is a pretty decent company. You pull Subaru parts and the pay (for what you do) can be pretty decent.. for hourly. Speaking of hourly, they got two raises and the second helped a lot of the guys with tenure giving them more money than a new guy. Overtime after 40 hours. They swapped over to a mileage pay system instead of a minimum guarantee. This hurt some drivers pay but gave a real motive to get them to run extra loads. I’m not too experienced in knowing how other companies run but from experienced drivers with the company, they tend to say it’s great. Not having to drive otr (Over the Road) and being home everyday is a good thing for Homelife but not a lot of the guys with this company think this way. 

Anyways as for management... things get a little rocky. There can be drama, rude people (not just driver managers but the drivers themselves), inability to maintain accountability for things like truck keys, and poor shop management... sometimes! I’ve seen trucks get passed for pm inspections but have no tread (less than 2/32 of an inch on some tires) with known issues to different parts of the trucks. But as for me, the guys have always been awesome in the shop. Maybe because I treat them with respect? Who knows?

Finally, benefits can be better as with most places. Match up to 3%, kinda expensive insurance plans, start out with 1 week paid vacation but that grows with time, and Decent safety bonuses. Sign on bonuses too. 

In conclusion, Venture isn’t a bad company. Geese, I’d be inclined to say they are a great company. Just with minor issues for terrible managers and worse drivers who expect “Their” truck to be available. Thank God the CNG trucks are gone!

What is the best part of working at the company?
This company doesn't care about seniority whatsoever.
At certain locations there won't be enough runs for their current drivers yet they continue to hire more drivers causing their current drivers to end up on short runs where you barely get a paycheck at the end of the week! Venture logistics is a joke! 


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Your hours are up and down and there is no set schedule. When you do something the supervisor doesn't necessarily care for then he seeks his revenge by putting you on the shortest runs possible to where you barely get a paycheck! 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They had too many new drivers off the street who don't know what they're doing and the turnover is way too high. The company is a complete joke! 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
There is no typical day because nothing is ever the same.
You start off having one run and on your way to work it gets canceled or changed to something else that's even shorter than what you were on so you're never really making any money.

Overall: Venture was a great place to work. It is a smaller company so everyone becomes really close. There is a great mix of play and work.

Job Work/Life Balance: Back when I was working there, I had 2 weeks of vacation and 1 week of personal days a year. We got most holidays off but since it's the trucking industry, we don't benefit from the smaller holidays that other industries get off.

Compensation/Benefits: This was the reason I left. We work to get money right? They didn't believe in raises so I didn't want to be stuck there for 5 years and not get a raise.

Job Security/Advancement: I was never in fear of getting fired. Advancement is hard because there are only so many upper management positions that can be filled.

Management: A great group. You talk to the CEO every other day. He occasionally invites people out to dinner and other events.

Job Culture: I give it 4/5 stars. We had a softball team one year. We go out to dinners and have drinks. There is food sometimes in the break room.

Very poor company to work for, absolutely no training for a system that does not meet the requirements for the work they want to get done. 

A culture that thrives on pointing the finger at the lowest employee on the latter when the actual problems cannot be solved by upper management. 

There is a director that consistently underpays their staff what was promised during the interview. Very shady practices and lying to the customers and regulatory agencies is encouraged to make upper management look good. Near impossible to take a paid day off, so expect your hours not to be used at the end of the year, and they do not roll over. 

There are few very good-willed individuals at this company, but many that will single out members they do not like until they get them fired. HR was aware of this issue but did nothing about it. 

Do yourself a favor and do not accept any offers from this business.

I enjoyed my time working with Venture. Great manager & team. Only problem? They promised to send us to school for a CDL. They would say yes, Than no, Than yes, Than no again. Until finally, We came back from Christmas break. Only to learn those of us without a CDL were going to be let go!!! After learning the ins-outs. Being a flexible. Reliable. And a hardworking team player. None of that made any difference. I could back a 53ft trailer into and through the factory with less than a foot of clearance on both sides. Not only myself, But others were just as dedicated and proficient in their abilities. Apparently that didn't make any difference. I loved that job. But I left before they had the chance to fire me over not having something they promised they would help me achieve getting. A CDL. If you have one already. This may be the best local truck job ever for ya. If not. I highly recommend not wasting your time. Energy. And putting your soul into that place like I did. 

I worked on the Wabash account in Lafayette Indiana and was demoted from my driving position due to covid so I got onto the Subaru account in Lafayette Indiana where I worked for 3 weeks and never received a single paycheck. Of course I wasn't going to keep driving for a company that doesn't pay it's employees on time so I left and am still, nearly 6 months later am I still fighting with pay roll to get the money they owe me. I can't speak for anything other than the 2 home daily accounts out of Lafayette and I would give 4 stars to the Wabash account and 1 star to the Subaru account with a average of MAYBE 3 stars. Just sad to see on all their trailers "good people, good pay, good home time" cuz the pay isn't par for the course even if pay roll does decide to pay you, and DMs on the Wabash account are kids that don't even have a CDL or any other knowledge of the trucking industry. 

While the pay is good, that's about all that they have going for them.  Health insurance is non existent; no one accepts it.  Management is always quick to write you up about the dumbest and most minor things that no one should even care about.  Truck sensors are extremely sensitive and you will rack up high safety points and have constant coachings. Management doesn't care about you. Trucks and trailers are not maintained; if you red tag something because it's a hazard, they will remove the red tag and put it back into service.  They are getting driver facing cameras in all of the trucks.  The work environment sucks and the employee morale is at an all time low!  Many drivers are quiting to find work elsewhere.

They have People there that doesn't even know how to use their emails they're emails it seems because they email each other with information and no one seems to know the information even when you point out the email they're shocked there is the email there because I don't seem to know how to look at their own emails unless the driver tells them it's in their email furthermore the power inverters and everyone of their trucks I've ever seen couldn't everyone have ever driven do not work and they are uninterested in fixing them they bodies and voters don't want to set them up to work and then don't want to ask you to fix them to work

I was dispatched to Ohio on a winter day with an empty trailer. I should have refused the load and should have gotten off the road, but there was no warning or assistance from dispatch either. Dispatchers are generally underage (as in, no driving experience and no knowledge of what drivers go through). The first six months most of the first hour of the shift was spent waiting on a tractor to use (slip seating to conserve equipment or because they didn't have enough). THey didnt have enough empty trailers, either, so it was a struggle if you needed an empty to go to a shipper. Much of that has changed now.

I was hired strictly to do a home daily route. Usually Indy to Chicago and back. Most of the time they would have a preloaded trailer on the yard to run to Chicago but getting back was hit and miss. They would send you at least an hour away to get live loaded which usually took 2-3 hours. Then I would have to worry about getting back in under 14 hours. Most days would take you all of the 14 hours.  After my first stay in a motel I had enough. The tractors are all hard driven Columbia's with the newer Cascadias given to those that had been there a long time. The pay was good. If you want regional or otr then they were great they always got people home when they needed but the home daily routes were a sham.

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