Central Transport reviews

Where to even start. Unless you are desperate for a paycheck, steer clear. They will try and give you a large base salary to get you to work for them, and they will not deliver on anything they promise. They cycle through people like trash and do not care about the employees working for them. -No matter what they say about "trying to change the reputation of Central", they continually screw customers over. Your job will be constant apologizing with no autonomy to do anything about it. They will overcharge over and over again, which cancels out having the lowest prices in the industry. -They have a terrible reputation so everywhere you walk in to hates you right off the bat. This job is 100% cold calling and people say anything to get you out of the door. -The computer systems are so outdated and slow it is embarrassing. Half of your job is battling the computer systems and the time it takes to get anything entered. The system as a whole is broken. You have to get pricing entered for anyone to ship with you, in order to get pricing you have to have a credit app (with bank account number), and at that point people write you off. The system is set up for account managers to fail. -Nobody at HQ wants to help you out. Anything you try to get done will be a constant battle from pricing to customer service. Same goes with your manager, good luck getting any help or actual advice. -They create and change goals with no explanation. When I got hired on, they said they would never raise a goal more than a bill or two, that is not true. It is a constant wild goose chase to try and hit your goal. -Mileage reimbursement is $0.10...which barely covers a gallon of gas. -Benefits are absolutely garbage. You are required to take days off for Christmas, New Years, and the day after Thanksgiving. You either have to use your vacation day or take it unpaid..and you are forced to take off. The health benefits are administered through a company owned by CT, so while you have access to the BCBS network, everything else is a cluster. From claims to prices, it is so terrible and expensive. No 401K match, no Direct deposit...! -If you are a woman, you better have thick skin. Some of the things you hear you just have to shake your head. And they will 100% tell you to sell yourself as a woman to make the sale. -Training for the 2 weeks in Michigan does not help at all once you are actually out in the job. It is pretty much a waste of two weeks of your life. If you have back issues schedule your chiropractor now. The chairs they have you sit in are from 1982 and will give you back issues if you do not already have them -The list could literally go on and on, just don't if you do not have to

Terrible management. Terrible decision making. Terrible to their drivers. Terrible to their dock workers. If you work for CT you can forget about having a life outside of work. Their entire philosophy revolves around putting as much time in as possible. If you're a dock worker you will work 55-60 hours and 6 days a week. If you're a driver you will spend hours waiting for your load, busted trailer getting fixed, old raggedy tractor or even new tractor getting fixed all without getting paid. You will be forced to drive equipment that will be a DOT hazard on the regular. If you don't drive they threaten you with termination. If you are supervisor get ready for everything being your fault and not having any control on your own dock. That's right! At CT LineHaul controls the dock 100%. From where dock workers are allowed to work to what dock workers are allowed to work on. Supervisors have zero control. Not to mention with the incredible turnover rate Supervisors will be expected to keep the same production despite losing dock workers are worse training what CT likes to call "bodies". You'll also be one of the lowest paid LTL supervisors in the industry as well. Managers, specifically TM'S have career expectancy of less than 12 months. That's right, on average Terminal Managers will lose their jobs inside of less than a year. CT is as bad as they say it is. The turnover rate, policy changes, decision making, etc. is as bad as they say it is. If you are looking for a career in logistics you are better off looking at other places. Think of it like this. Old Dominion, Estes, Dayton, Saia, UPS and Conway/XPO are the cream of the crop while CT is the bottom of the barrel. The people that got no where else to turn end up at CT. That's why they have some of the lowest customer satisfaction ratings in the business. Stay away!