Saia LTL Freight reviews

Upper management literally has told managers that if hourly associates don’t like the amount of hours they are forced to work, then they can just quit. If your spouse has an issue with your work life balance don’t waste your time bringing it up to leadership because they genuinely do not care. Larger facilities are overwhelmed and under staffed and will work you 60-70 hours a week and if you call off of work for a mandated weekend shift even if only given a 24 hour noticed you will be penalized. Mandated weekends aren’t so bad, but most facilities are mandated each weekend. And has been that way for months and some even over a year. Regional managers are on the hit list and micromanage good terminal managers to the point that they have zero control of what happens day to day, and when their plans fail, the TMs get fired. Supervisors are underpaid and still work 6 days a week. The only people that are treated like they actually matter are drivers. Dock workers, supervisors, Operations managers, ATMs and TMs are completely disposable and are set up to fail from day one. Forced to do unethical things to push numbers so stale holders believe the company is performing well. Meanwhile the people suffer. Horrible work life balance, horrible training, horrible upper management. STAY AWAY!!!

Standard PTO (2 weeks as a new employee and grows over time), but this is becoming a deterrent in today's job market. Poor technology that makes it impossible to manage day-to-day while trying to make sales in the field. Poor technology leads to long nights of updating the clunky CRM system. Sales could be at the bane of the success of operations, who have completely different incentives than sales. It's hard to grow sales when you have a terminal manager that could care less about increasing the amount of freight through his/her terminal. When a terminal manager only carries about on-time delivery to established accounts and low claims, it's tough to convince them to bring on more freight. Very hierarchical organization. Management above is looking to appease management above and so on. Sales management and guidance is very old school. Smaller sales territories and terminals often get neglected by sales management and you can very much feel alone. Sales initiatives by corporate were feasible in larger cities and sales territories, but the same results were expected out of more rural and less dense areas. Sales goals need to be adjusted for the sales territory.