Pros
Good pay especially compared to other places in the area, benefits, Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. work schedule, other shifts are available but only a few people with more seniority work them voluntarily, paid training, paid weekly & direct deposit encouraged, challenging, and owners talk to their employees frequently. Job requires intense focus and no time for chit-chat while on the clock.
Cons
Training program could be intense with all the information being crammed in your head. company loved to hire a class of 10-15 people at a time and throughout the course of your employment, theyd fire 1to 2 a week, and then proceed to lie to the rest of the class by announcing that so-and-so "didn't feel that this was working out for them and decided to part ways" when in reality they'd been fired and given a front row seat at the unemployment office. Told repeatedly once out of the classroom and still in training on the floor, that "numbers aren't important at this time" and to "concentrate on the process" yet I know there were several people fired because their numbers weren't as good as some. Also, we were given certain goals to go by but apparently they didn't mean much--they'd rather you earn a lower profit percentage (sometimes lose money on loads) and have more loads booked apparently which is completely the opposite from what they told you to do in the 1st place. If you're an incredible salesperson, and can deal with carriers laughing at you for quoting the awful prices that Scott Log. wants to pay to haul their customers' freight, then go ahead. Be prepared to have dispatchers openly laugh at you and hang up or once you tell them where you're calling from, get hung up at that point. And if you do manage to book a load, if it falls off (i.e. the carrier looked back at the mess they got into and figured out how little they would be paid to transport a load so they cancelled), then you've just spent all that time and energy on that one load that you don't even get credit for having booked so in their eyes, you might as well have done nothing during that time you spent negotiating a deal and working out details. It's all in the numbers baby, don't let them fool you one bit. Also, the higherups would daily encourage anyone who didn't feel confident about the job to let them know so they could get rid of you ASAP.
