Spotter/Yardman - Transportation/Yard Manager Premier Transportation Employee Review

Expensive insurance. When I was there they got in trouble with the temp company for not giving the temps breaks. It's all about cases per hour. "We don't care what you have to do, just give us 70 cases per hour" (at the time). When they opened it was 45 cases per hour. They have since moved out of Bolingbrook. This was a nightmare. I walked with the VP of the company and he said he thought the yard would hold 90 trailers. I told him 47 without doublestacking. The most I ever had in the yard was 83, and that's filling the entire yard like stacking blocks. Our drivers couldn't even get their own routetrailers out, and were late. Poor equipment, we got "hand me downs" from another location. Always breaking down. We had a tractor- F-17. It had a bad battery, whenever it was below 30 degrees it wouldn't start. I was told "call road service". Road service told them they had a bad battery, and they still wouldn't replace it due to their budget. I did all the duties of a manager, but never got the title. I busted my *** to make this place successful and hoping it would pay off. Nothing I can take with me from here, other than the experience. At least if I had the title I could go somewhere else and say I was a "Yardmanager". But since I was a "Spotter" I'm not looked at as anything special, and can't move up anywhere else. I'm taking the title from here because I did do all the duties. I helped drivers with issues, coordinated with vendors on repairs, did damage inspections on all equipment, helped with building issues, and moved 80-100 trailers a day. Does that sound like normal spotter duties? Pay is all straight time- because they can. Straight time is legal, but shouldn't be allowed. It's one of the reasons the trucking industry has degraded over the years.