Good company with conservative leadership
Pros
Free coffee and tea! People are wonderful and lasting friendships make work tolerable, and the company culture varies from location to location, but overall fantastic people and teams. A pension is still being offered with adequate benefits along with a chairman's gift. Some locations offer yoga classes or medication, on site meals, and a wellness program for gym membership. The product is reputable and directly impacts the economy (without trucking, there would be no fuel for vehicles or product on the store shelves) makes the daily work have more meaning.
Cons
Compensations starts low and takes a while to catch up with the industry and bonuses are only for upper paygrades. Only 50% tuition reimbursement along with only 80 hours of paid time off to begin, unless hired in at a higher paygrade level. There is no work from home or remote work options so commuting into the office is always a high-risk evolution during rush hours. Layoffs are inevitable and there are no replacements to do the workload, just more work for those who are left. Performance reviews are too vague, since managers, have little involvement with work or activities each team member performs. Conservative leadership and management style that often stifles innovation and development. Leadership visits are stressful at the plant level requiring many hours of deep cleaning and setting up to up to show off the best view of operations. Some benefits still lacking like generous parental leave in various states and the 40 hours sick time does not carry over, nor is it paid for not using the benefit.