I have enjoyed everything about working at Dayton, from the management, to the modern equipment, to my fellow dock workers. The pay is excellent. Some people may not like working on the open air dock, and it would be better if they had more full time positions. You'll have to be patient being capped at 27 hours per week, indefinitely.
A typical day was answering phones assisting customers and drivers. Routing freight and entering bill of ladings into the computer. Dispatching line haul drivers and making sure they had all their needed mail and paperwork for their route.I learned how to multitask and wear many hats and dig to find answers that needed to be found to help the dock workers, drivers, etc... I also faxed, filed, entered paper work etc...
This job was very fast paced and all about the numbers each and every night. The sooner the team got through all the bills, the sooner you could go home. Lots of OT but some very late nights 2am-4am then back to work at 12:30-1:00 to do it all over again. Overall not a bad job if you like processing bills and like I said the OT was nice when you had a chance to spend it.
Very laid back and independent work. Managers are easy going and very understanding to any issues in daily life at or outside work.
Pros
paid break
Cons
bad hours
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Truck Driver (Former Employee) – Jackson, MI – January 11, 2017
good company to work for staff was knowledgable fun place to work for no weekends could get extra hours if your log book permitted uniforms suppully nice trucks
Pros
no weekends
Cons
benefits
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Great Place to Work
Weight & Research Specialist (Current Employee) – Valley View, OH – January 7, 2017
Dayton Freight Lines is a great company that offers competitive wages and friendly atmosphere. Management is very attentive to the needs of their employees and really is an overall great place to work.
Pros
Pay
Cons
Weather
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Good people
City Dispatch Assistant (Current Employee) – St. Louis, MO – December 12, 2016
Good people to work for. Understanding management. Many variations of hours to work. Twenty four hour six days a week. Able to work around your schedule.
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Good for some
Weight and Research Specialist (Current Employee) – Dayton, OH – November 30, 2016
A typical day becomes very easy for most at Dayton Freight. Very similar day to day if you are in an hourly position. They will let you drive a forklift sure, maybe put you at full time on the dock or possibly in the office if you put in enough time and have qualifications.
Management can be overbearing from time to time but on a daily basis they are not micro managing.
Co-workers are always full of jokes and the job just down right isn't that hard exceptions being the cold months.
The hardest part of the job is picking up freight that may have been damaged on the way to your terminal, sometimes it can be very heavy or awkward.
Pros
Starting hourly wage, no micromanagement, good training
Cons
One 15 minute break for 6 hour part time shift, unpaid lunch, top out at 2 years
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Great Company
Driver (Former Employee) – Byron Center, MI – November 28, 2016
All around great company. Not one single complaint about the company.
The only complaint is not with the company but with the nature of driving for an LTL company. The hours you work. Your not done until your customers allow you to be.....
Pros
Pay, Management, Appreciative, Great attitudes
Cons
Nature of the beast- the hours
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Great place to work
Management Intern (Current Employee) – Springfield, MO – November 15, 2016
Great place to work. Great people. Good work. Good pay. Nice benefits. management cares about you. Overall an awesome place to be a part of. 5 star employer
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Good place to work. Positive environment and great communication.
Dock Worker/Forklift Operator (Current Employee) – Walton, KY – November 2, 2016
very easy day to day operations and friendly environment. Very simple to understand the job duties. Competitive pay starting out with the advantages of moving up.
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Good paying job with good benefits
Truck Driver (Current Employee) – Independence, OH – October 26, 2016
Good paying job with benefits. The days are always different depending on time of year or end of month. Sometimes days go smoothly but more times than none you are expected to perform tasks with little or no time
Pros
Good pay, benefits
Cons
Routing, dispatch
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Good company to work for
Forklift Operator (Former Employee) – Fort Wayne, IN – October 26, 2016
The pay for a forklift driver was fantastic. No, it wasn't full time but that was known ahead of time. Better equipment and safer work environment than my experience elsewhere. I'm saying all of this and I got fired after 3 years. Show up and do your job and it's a good place to work.
Pros
Pay
Cons
times of shift are inconvenient
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Strong Company, Good place to be
Operations Supervisor (Former Employee) – Warren, MI – October 25, 2016
Dayton freight is a great place to work for the most part.
Good pay, treat their employees fairly.
Lots of supervisors/management at service center, stepping on each other feet.
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Very productive place to work. Good people to work with.
Forklift Operator (Former Employee) – Arcola, IL – October 24, 2016
Company takes care of theit employees. Very flexible with hours and life. Competitive compensation. Enjoyed working in a safe environment and having proper working equipment.
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Great workplace
Dock Worker (Current Employee) – Salem, IL – October 14, 2016
Good company to work for they seem to be about the employees helping with anything needed. Management is great and gives employees what they need to advance.
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Driver (Former Employee) – Warren, MI – October 11, 2016
The terminal manager is horrible, the dispatchers are even worse. The dispatchers don't know how to read a map, they've never been truck drivers, they'll stab you in the back and write you up for petty stuff if they don't like you so you have a paper trail and fire you. For example write you up for not turning your truck the correct way to be fueled at night, write up. Not putting a chock under your tire, write up. Just a few minor examples. And the terminal manager is horrible, how he is employed by a company like Dayton is beyond me with his Patrick Duffy looking hair do. He doesn't know the first thing about driving a truck or the industry with all things that could go wrong on a daily basis. He basically throws everybody else under the bus to save himself.
A typical day was answering phones assisting customers and drivers. Routing freight and entering bill of ladings into the computer. Dispatching line haul drivers and making sure they had all their needed mail and paperwork for their route.I learned how to multitask and wear many hats and dig to find answers that needed to be found to help the dock workers, drivers, etc... I also faxed, filed, entered paper work etc...
This job was very fast paced and all about the numbers each and every night. The sooner the team got through all the bills, the sooner you could go home. Lots of OT but some very late nights 2am-4am then back to work at 12:30-1:00 to do it all over again. Overall not a bad job if you like processing bills and like I said the OT was nice when you had a chance to spend it.
Very laid back and independent work. Managers are easy going and very understanding to any issues in daily life at or outside work.
Pros
paid break
Cons
bad hours
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Employees were hard working
Truck Driver (Former Employee) – Jackson, MI – January 11, 2017
good company to work for staff was knowledgable fun place to work for no weekends could get extra hours if your log book permitted uniforms suppully nice trucks
Pros
no weekends
Cons
benefits
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Great Place to Work
Weight & Research Specialist (Current Employee) – Valley View, OH – January 7, 2017
Dayton Freight Lines is a great company that offers competitive wages and friendly atmosphere. Management is very attentive to the needs of their employees and really is an overall great place to work.
Pros
Pay
Cons
Weather
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Good people
City Dispatch Assistant (Current Employee) – St. Louis, MO – December 12, 2016
Good people to work for. Understanding management. Many variations of hours to work. Twenty four hour six days a week. Able to work around your schedule.
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Good for some
Weight and Research Specialist (Current Employee) – Dayton, OH – November 30, 2016
A typical day becomes very easy for most at Dayton Freight. Very similar day to day if you are in an hourly position. They will let you drive a forklift sure, maybe put you at full time on the dock or possibly in the office if you put in enough time and have qualifications.
Management can be overbearing from time to time but on a daily basis they are not micro managing.
Co-workers are always full of jokes and the job just down right isn't that hard exceptions being the cold months.
The hardest part of the job is picking up freight that may have been damaged on the way to your terminal, sometimes it can be very heavy or awkward.
Pros
Starting hourly wage, no micromanagement, good training
Cons
One 15 minute break for 6 hour part time shift, unpaid lunch, top out at 2 years
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Great Company
Driver (Former Employee) – Byron Center, MI – November 28, 2016
All around great company. Not one single complaint about the company.
The only complaint is not with the company but with the nature of driving for an LTL company. The hours you work. Your not done until your customers allow you to be.....
Pros
Pay, Management, Appreciative, Great attitudes
Cons
Nature of the beast- the hours
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Great place to work
Management Intern (Current Employee) – Springfield, MO – November 15, 2016
Great place to work. Great people. Good work. Good pay. Nice benefits. management cares about you. Overall an awesome place to be a part of. 5 star employer
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Good place to work. Positive environment and great communication.
Dock Worker/Forklift Operator (Current Employee) – Walton, KY – November 2, 2016
very easy day to day operations and friendly environment. Very simple to understand the job duties. Competitive pay starting out with the advantages of moving up.
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Good paying job with good benefits
Truck Driver (Current Employee) – Independence, OH – October 26, 2016
Good paying job with benefits. The days are always different depending on time of year or end of month. Sometimes days go smoothly but more times than none you are expected to perform tasks with little or no time
Pros
Good pay, benefits
Cons
Routing, dispatch
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Good company to work for
Forklift Operator (Former Employee) – Fort Wayne, IN – October 26, 2016
The pay for a forklift driver was fantastic. No, it wasn't full time but that was known ahead of time. Better equipment and safer work environment than my experience elsewhere. I'm saying all of this and I got fired after 3 years. Show up and do your job and it's a good place to work.
Pros
Pay
Cons
times of shift are inconvenient
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Strong Company, Good place to be
Operations Supervisor (Former Employee) – Warren, MI – October 25, 2016
Dayton freight is a great place to work for the most part.
Good pay, treat their employees fairly.
Lots of supervisors/management at service center, stepping on each other feet.
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Very productive place to work. Good people to work with.
Forklift Operator (Former Employee) – Arcola, IL – October 24, 2016
Company takes care of theit employees. Very flexible with hours and life. Competitive compensation. Enjoyed working in a safe environment and having proper working equipment.
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Great workplace
Dock Worker (Current Employee) – Salem, IL – October 14, 2016
Good company to work for they seem to be about the employees helping with anything needed. Management is great and gives employees what they need to advance.
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Wosrt management and dispatchers
Driver (Former Employee) – Warren, MI – October 11, 2016
The terminal manager is horrible, the dispatchers are even worse. The dispatchers don't know how to read a map, they've never been truck drivers, they'll stab you in the back and write you up for petty stuff if they don't like you so you have a paper trail and fire you. For example write you up for not turning your truck the correct way to be fueled at night, write up. Not putting a chock under your tire, write up. Just a few minor examples. And the terminal manager is horrible, how he is employed by a company like Dayton is beyond me with his Patrick Duffy looking hair do. He doesn't know the first thing about driving a truck or the industry with all things that could go wrong on a daily basis. He basically throws everybody else under the bus to save himself.
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