Saia LTL Freight reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(862 total reviews)
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Frederick Holzgrefe

62% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Saia LTL Freight has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 862 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Saia LTL Freight 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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862 reviews
1.0
Mar 23, 2019

BEWARE - Horrible Sales Management

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Pros

The operations staff and drivers are some of the best in the industry. The staff members you will work with are amazing, supportive, and helpful. The pay is competitive and their customers are awesome.

Cons

The worst sales management team I have encountered in my entire career. There is a strong culture of fear created by someone in charge of the West Coast. The treatment reps recieve on a weekly basis is inconsistent, unfair, and at times abusive by the woman he promoted in this region. Her lack of proper training and formal education shows in how she treats her team. The manager she hired is equally as condescending and inept. Because he has zero sales or LTL experience, he manages by sitting at a computer all day analyzing reports and looking for reasons to fire people. This 1950’s management style is not working and only results in reps leaving or hating their jobs. I am amazed human resources has not conducted any exit interviews with reps when they leave or noticed the insane amount of turnover since she took over. You can expect to be given unrealistic goals (which will be raised to unattainable levels once you hit them) and copious amounts of time consuming paperwork and micromanagement tasks. You are required to complete these meaningless tasks which take time away from your ability to sell, thus making goal attainment next to impossible. You will be given tasks by her and then criticized when you complete them. She tells you to do something one way on Monday and by Friday it has changed. It is unfortunate, but the culture has completely changed in the past years to that of a toxic swamp where the turnover rate is the only thing higher than employee dissatisfaction.

1.0
Dec 22, 2018
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Pros

It's a paycheck that's about it

Cons

Drivers are treated horrible, management is on egg shells, they boast that they pay overtime but you will be cut to 4 days a week sometimes 3 days a week. Trucks have a driver facing camera. No real retirement plan. It's a decent job if you don't have one but don't get comfortable.. Quit before they fire you first.

4.0
May 5, 2018
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Pros

Grateful they me the opportunity. Benefits were good. Close to my house. The team was very united, which made the job easy. Pretty good as far as technology.

Cons

The long hours did not match the pay. I was hired for a 10 and a half hr shift, really worked 10 to 13hrs. We were also asked to work every other Sunday without monetary compensation. You only had loaders/stackers sometimes which I find unacceptable. Ran out of equipment constantly.

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