Oakley Transport reviews

They invest heavily in painting a perfect image on social media and Google, hence the reason for only positive reviews. They don't tolerate any negative content about their group and work tirelessly to have it taken down. It is a very, very, cheap company. Their safety department consists of only DEI hires who are unprofessional and difficult to deal with. Just think of trashy, street culture from everyone in safety to get an idea of the dynamic there. Driver amenities at their main terminal in Lake Wales are non-existent. A dingy, little lounge with a torn sofa and a tv from 1995. Bathroom for drivers is disgusting. Their internal offices are covered in porcelain tile, stone countertops, premium bathrooms, and high end amenities. Drivers do not have access to the facility except through a small window to pickup paperwork from office staff. The yard is unpaved and covered in ash. Dust everywhere. Only office staff have paved areas. Drivers are required to park in a dumpy lot next door and walk through a wire fence with a jail turnstile. The company culture is segregated. Think of deep, Southern roots to get an idea for how they operate. Operations is very comfortable talking down to drivers and clearly view drivers as third rate employees. The culture here is one where drivers are viewed as no more than a necessary business expense. They don't value opinions, explanations when issues arise, or even small talk. As others have said, it is a strict and heavy environment with an unpleasant feel to it especially at the Lake Wales terminal. The dispatch managers leave you alone as long as you do your job. The company is structured where drivers have no access to email. Only a phone app and a qualcomm. It's all designed to keep drivers away from their terminals and out of sight. They still use a lot of paper for trips and bubble sheets that have to be filled out by hand for every load before being uploaded. A lot of their way of thinking is from 1985. The one good thing about this fleet is the mileage they're able to offer if you're willing to stay out long and work on recaps. Home time is flexible but they only give 3-4 days for every month on the road if doing OTR. Unofficially, they can provide 1-2 weeks off but you're required to run for several months at a time. The aging Volvos that makeup their fleet are small but the new Peterbilts that are replacing them are a joke. All of their trucks are ordered with dual bunks for teams. I have yet to meet a single team that works at this company. They order them this way for a higher resale value at the expense of driver comfort. The Peterbilt 579 models that are being brought in, although new, are not a true OTR truck since they're nearly unlivable. Prepare to sleep in a tiny, submarine style bed with a bunk 4 inches above your face and zero leg room. Even less storage space than the Volvo VNL. Many drivers have complained about the same issues but places like this are only designed to give an image of being driver focused instead of actually caring. They offer full size sleepers to dry van/reefer drivers. Tanker drivers get mid-size sleepers. For someone without prior experience in the tanker industry, they can serve as a platform to get experience for a better job elsewhere. Oakley is not a long term company from what I've seen and spoken to other drivers about. It's a sham company. They have good accounts but the accessory pay is always wrong on nearly every paycheck. Detention is a low $15 hourly rate and layovers are paid $100 after two days or $200 after three days. Mileage is only paid zip code to zip code. It's a cheap company and they know it.

No pre loading information & no loading info when your empty. Very very poor info and communication form your DM. You are payed a day rate.per hr

I was fired from them for quite some time now. If you were to ask me a couple of years ago, I would recommend it because they used to care about the driver, but during my last year with the company, they've done nothing, but screw me over. They lied to me for two months about the availability of work. They would financial starve me when it was time to get paid ( messing up my checks to where 6 days of work would get me paid for maybe 2 or 3) and rush me after just assigning me to any customer. My termination was due to a successful insurance scam by an entitled road rage driver by the way. Oakley's safety department head is more concerned about company policy than the safety of his actual driver as he was attempting to flee a threat while the head of the dispatch department constantly targets drivers to harass them about punctuality and time constraints, dismissing anything safety related. Toward the end of my employment, all I saw was a lot of disorganized and dishonest operation by those that have no concept of real world evolution. They practically made me a liar to any other drivers I recruited because all the benefits we were promised were taken away... They even caused drivers to faint from heat exhaustion during the summer months because they demanded that shorts weren't allowed and those drivers had A/C issues in their trucks.

Without talking much, just a bad company that doesn't care who you are, they only care about their loads and clients, the driver is nobody, talking about a stupid rule of 80% and 20% to manipulate you and make you think that if you are 20% you are the best, lie, don't work here, you will see that you will be nobody here either, don't believe in their benefits and a thousand more lies that they will tell you during orientation.

Greedy self righteous thieves. They come up with all sorts of ways to take $$ from drivers while the corporate side rakes in all the bonuses the drivers deserve Oakley use to be THE company to work for but not anymore. I put up with their crap for many years but had to leave. Nothing about Oakley says family except their slogans. Oakley at one time was a good company but leadership on lake Wales has ruined that. They want everyone on shift pay and not milage... Shift pay gets one pay for whatever they are told to do, but loose out on extra pay they should be getting as milage pay does.