Pros
- Great local management at Muskego at the time at least. I was happy to work for them. - Great people to work with for the most part. Drivers mostly worked hard, shop relations mostly good. -I generally enjoyed my day-to-day here. -benefits are very light, but better than most private haulers.
Cons
- Corporate. They held drivers to impossible standards and impossible revenue and productivity goals. It was awesome for the first year I was there, but when downhill in a hot minute after the private equity firm bought the place. They want to hurry up and go public, make their $$, and burn the place down after and it shows. Also, I got tired of disciplining drivers for stuff I didn't believe in. - Sales. Most of the people were okay, but the system pits you against each other. The commission structure is horrid, impossible to make much, and they force sales to cheat customers into price increases I felt. This is all industry standard behavior but it still stinks. I thanked God every day I wasn't in sales, and would never ever work sales for this organization. -They don't want to invest in the necessary capital. We had crap trucks, no parts, no containers. We kept working miracles but a breaking point is coming. -The firing. This isn't limited to advanced, this is very much a "firing" industry, everyone gets fired eventually. (I left before I found out if this applied to me or not.) but there is not much training, you either figure it out or you're fired. The threshold for accidents is very low, so it'll happen quicker than you think. As a manager it is hard to keep staffed because corporate is always firing drivers. Also it is hard to do your job without talking on the phone and driving, but this isn't allowed. So you do it anyway and hope the cameras in the truck don't go off when you're doing it. This happened to me once but local management had my back and I wasn't fired. But I was lucky, and my thoughts turned to departing the industry. - The hours. Industry standard, not ADS specific. But expect close to 60 a week, not counting Saturday's once a month or so. This was the main reason I left the industry. Not really interested in breaking myself off and hurting my family to keep making some rich guy richer.
