Smokey Point Distributing reviews

Most of the dispatchers and load planners are absent all day long because they work from home. This means they aren't trying to get you loaded. They are shopping, running personal errands or actually working another job! The new trucks are incredibly small and uncomfortable. The miles have fallen off the chart in the last year. You don't make any bonuses anymore. SPD is not even close to the same company they were years ago. They should be forced to change their name. It's sad.

Money wise I did great drew was dispatcher kept me loaded hated trapping like does would return one day if ever allowed

The pay sucks. You will be sitting and not making money. The salary portion is all you'll see. A company that constantly replies to all honest comments to save face should tell you something.

I got hired on right before Covid hit so my experience might be a little different from other's. I went there because they had a salary program where you were guaranteed approximately $65,000/year. They wanted you to run about 300 miles each day as the bare minimum to get that. But, if you didn't reach it thru no fault of your own, you'd still get it. I never had any trouble meeting that mileage goal. You also had the ability to earn 99 cents per mile after you hit that goal, thru their safety and productivity bonus. I made about $80,000 my first year. I could have made more but even though I was making good money, they weren't "knocking it out the ballpark" once I hit my miles. For example, I hit my miles with a week and a half left. I normally ran over 600 miles per day so I could have made an additional $4200 with the bonus pay if they ran me hard, but my dispatcher gave me a load that had me sitting for the best part of 2 days. I don't think the dispatcher was aware that he was costing me that kind of money. I should have complained harder. I think they'd have listened. Overall, I think that program works pretty well now. It was a thing they were developing when I was there. I left to go to a company where I'd be home weekly. Otherwise I'd still be there. Basically, I determined my own route, ran really hard at the beginning of a run so I could get there early and sightsee on my day off. They treated me well, kept equipment in good working order. I kinda hated to leave the place. I just couldn't take the being alone all the time. I highly recommend them for anyone wanting to do OTR.

You are respected from the get-go and if you run into a problem like I did all you have to do is contact your recruiter and it will be taken care of they will contact management and management we'll get it taken care of immediately I absolutely love it here some health issues come about with my hands and I told them I would have to change jobs do to those issues and they said no we can deal with this so they put me on light duty after I was put on light duty I was given a job that I was not supposed to do I did it anyway because I loaded on a weekend and when management found out management took care of it when they got the knowledge of it my second issue was my home time it had been scheduled for one month and halfway through that month I made a doctor's appointment for the next day after I got home then they put a load on me that would not have gotten me home on time I let dispatch know about it then dispatch was told buy a planner was told by planner no that load has to be delivered that's why I contacted my recruiter she contacted management it was taken care of immediately I was home on time like I said the dispatchers and management and the recruiters are awesome the planners are very good at what they do and there are very busy and sometimes they do not take out time and read the restrictions on a driver but sometimes people make mistakes but this company it's willing to live up to their mistake and correct their mistake... as long as my health stays good I will be here hope to see you soon Stubby4567