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PLS Logistics Services reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(888 total reviews)

Greg Burns

42% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

PLS Logistics Services has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 888 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PLS Logistics Services employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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888 reviews
2.0
Jul 28, 2016

Learn a few ropes

Recommend
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Pros

Training was average, and teaches you how to operate within the system.

Cons

The company gives reasonable training, but the revolving door makes it difficult to establish any baseline for success. You are faced with attrition at an alarming rate, and customer's all question that at the end of the day. You will have new hires, who come and go numerous times during your working days, and they'll constantly have to be re-trained. You'll lose business, as mistakes will happen, and nobody loses but you, as it's your customer. It's a high-stress, married to the job type of environment, where you'll be working 50-60 hour weeks. It teaches you how to manage a business, but it's a best friend get's the good accounts type of business, and it just really isn't worth killing yourself and sacrificing your life and health for a middle of the road paying job.

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PLS Logistics Services Response
9y
Thanks for sharing your experience. We take your comments very seriously. I'll fwd this message to leadership so that we can create solutions based on your review.
4.0
Jun 5, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

They teach you the basics and get you with a mentor fast. You are on track to be making over 80k within 2 years if you stick with it. The best account executives can do pretty much whatever they want on their own schedule and even get coordinators to handle their books while they do family functions, take vacations occasionally, etc. The sales managers want you to succeed, they are available, they don't want you to mess up. But also, they are busy in their own ways, so independence is very encouraged. The PAY is A+ for entry level, don't blow it all in one place

Cons

If your mentor sucks you could be shown bad or even unethical work; even little things like your style of making Bill of Ladings/Truck confirmations will be entirely based on how your mentor did things and can get you in trouble later if you learned bad practice [assuming truckers make their own appointments, or even READ their confirmations lol!] Work life balance sucks for the first 16 months, you have to generate all your own leads (which is actually better for performance because if leads were easy, why are they hiring you?). As a broker, your job is to keep customers happy, move freight, and make cash. But you only make cash when the deal gets done; I was regularly put in positions where lying to the customer, trucker, or anyone not on "my team" was best for "my team". It can feel a little sociopathic when you know more than the trucker AND the customer and have to play them off each other just enough to at least get the freight moving. High turnover B2B sales industry, once again, don't blow all the money in one place, there's a good chance you'll just brick out on a benchmark and get fired. Nothing personal.

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PLS Logistics Services Response
10y
Hi. Thanks for sharing your experience. We take your comments seriously and will take the advice you've given us to help our employees find success.
2.0
Apr 17, 2015

Carefree company

Recommend
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Pros

PLS is boot camp for the real world. They take 50-100 people throw them on the phones and say goood luck.

Cons

Working at PLS...I would steer clear of this place unless you need a resume builder.

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