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Penske Logistics reviews

2.1
(33)
$800 - $3,000/week

Summary

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$800 $1,308 $3,000
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Ratings and Reviews

Current Employee - Feb 19, 2025

If you are considering driving for pensky logistics you should know that they're driving policies are completely unreasonable, and it's only a matter of time before you end up with three points against you. If your truck is moving forward or backward, you must have a seat belt on even if you're only going three feet. You cannot eat or drink anything while you're driving. Even if you're on the road, at a stoplight. You must come to a full and complete stop at all, stop signs for 1 full second. You must be at least 4 seconds behind any traffic Ahead of you at all times. You cannot make turns on yellow lights. The AI camera in your cab Keeps track of all of this. I am currently a penski driver and have 3 points against me at this time. So now I am constantly dreading one final mistake before I get the boot. I've been driving for thirty two years, with no accidents or incidents, and yet this is how they treat professionals. Do yourself a favor and steer clear of penske logistics.

Pros

I'm only ten minutes from work

Cons

Safety teams that have never driven a truck that give no leeway to the driver.

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Former Employee - Feb 16, 2025

Penske has an attendance policy that a driver should look more into before the consider working for them,home every day, weekly pay,d/h load on certain runs

Pros

Ok pay

Cons

You will have to drive sick only 6 call off days allowed all year

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Current Employee - Dec 31, 2024

You work manually in car parts with a manual jack. Everything on a car including engines. You will work on paid holidays. New years eve and New Years! No room for growth. On a route 4 life!

Pros

Steady paycheck!

Cons

Cheap pay for manual labor!

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Current Employee - Dec 13, 2024

Absolutely horrid company as far as family time or any considerations other than work...they have elite drivers that change routes every three weeks and can be from ANYWHERE USA so helping these guys learn how to do a route that connects to yours is a disaster that u folds every three weeks because they have NO idea what to do...trucks are okay but their cameras watch your literal eyes if you take a drink of water while driving it goes against you if you dare eat same thing... Got snowed in and had no way to work for hours.Still ran the route even though I was exhausted and had been up far longer than I should have before a shift... This was counted against me in my attendance. Is the day i'm writing this review, We had to take our daughter to the hospital.She is one month old and was crying so much.She was turning blue.. Luckily she is all right.But I got a phone call this morning.Being told they didn't want me back until Monday and that it was all my fault.They had to broke or someone to take my route... Had been up since one thirty a.m. the previous day With no sleep , basically what they were saying is they wanted me in the truck anyway and the Fact that I was Unable to show up even though I called them To let them know what the situation was, They counted this against me and put me on thirty day probation... If you have a family, Do not work here. These people could not possibly care less about you, About your situation or about your family. It doesn't matter if a member of your family is Terminally ill, Nothing else matters but their loads getting delivered on time... Nothing.

Pros

They pay ok

Cons

Absolutely no consideration for family emergencies, weather etc.

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Current Employee - Dec 2, 2024

To much favoritism to brown nosers seem like they want to get rid of old employees and have there favorite there giving extra hr.with out work

Pros

Home time

Cons

Favoritism

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Salary Surveys

Company Driver - 5+ Years CDL Experience

Surveyed in Illinois on Feb 19, 2025

$1,442 per week

Current Employee

Yes

Company Driver - 5+ Years CDL Experience

Surveyed in Joliet, IL on Feb 16, 2025

$1,650 per week

Current Employee

No

Company Driver - 5+ Years CDL Experience

Surveyed in Dallas, TX on Dec 31, 2024

$937 per week

Current Employee

Yes

Company Driver - 5+ Years CDL Experience

Surveyed in Massachusetts on Dec 13, 2024

$1,038 per week

Current Employee

Yes

Company Driver - 5+ Years CDL Experience

Surveyed in Laredo, TX on Dec 2, 2024

$1,038 per week

Current Employee

Yes

Discussions

Leasing from Penske?

Verdel

Jul 15, 2015

Leasing from Penske?

Penske is NO, NO. For 1 month rent of a sleeper truck, they want $4117 + $0.18 per mile. If I run 10k miles the bill will be to $5917. I will survive, but they will be making more money than my self.

Leasing from Penske?

Verdel

Jul 15, 2015

Leasing from Penske?

Leasing is way cheaper than renting, almost 50% less. I have one tractor and two straight trucks leased through Penske. I was worried about the cost, but now I'm not sure if I'll buy another truck. 

On one hand it sucks because you always have a truck payment, but that's about the only negative I can think of. They take care of the taxes, IFTA, tags, free washes, they call or email me when they are due for PM's which are free. I don't pay for anything other than fuel. The tractor had Continental tire's, with about 10,000 miles they started causing a vibration, no questions asked they put a brand new full set of michelins on it. And then you get the 24 hour roadside for breakdowns, also free. Peace of mind is very nice.