Soil Tech Distributors, Tampa FL

32yrs in the industry and counting, whatever you decide to do driver make sure isn't to become a target for the "guy" who handles drivers in this company. Foreign A hole is the one who's gonna disappear your bucs like magic, you'd be working for an average of $4 and some change a ton for the most part. With that being said is on you now!

Hired me and on the second day of training they dismissed me and said I was disqualified after my first hour of seat time without an explanation. The Mentor who's a 4 year driver told me he grosses 50k a year there. They have camera's facing inside of the cabin to invade and listen to your privacy. The Trainors give no warnings on anything he'd let you crash without saying a word like he told me with his past students. The trucks tip over often also told by my trainor. If your a driver at the Orlando spot your likely Latino and nothing else. Wouldn't reccomend working here.

It’s good place to start if you lack end dump experience.
The pay is decent could be better with more strategic dispatching and put a pause on hiring when work is slow.

In example. You have dedicated trucks on a specific account that pays better than a local account other drivers are on.

Well when that specific account isn’t needed needed the dispatcher will assign those trucks to the local load that’s assigned to the other local drivers which ultimately lessens the amount of loads the locals can do once the receiver is full.

So essentially the out of state runners get paid better than the locals and once the out of state runners aren’t needed out of state they get dispatched to the locals job still guaranteeing them a good check.

The problem with that is the locals are then displaced doing other odd jobs that may not pay as good rather than dispatching the out of state drivers the odd jobs potentially balancing out the pay for the company drivers.

Favouritism exists for sure obviously an unethical tactic.

Communication is pretty bad they prefer you to text but you’re driving and they have cameras in dash which is entrapment.

Majority of your repairs is going to take place in the main yard in Tampa because the other yards have a limited mechanic and issue with that is you potentially losing out on loads and not able to get a reload out of the area.

You’d think the dispatcher would do what’s best for the company seeing that they have overhead expenses and truck payments but that may not be more so their concern.

Lastly if work is slow why hire more drivers?

You’d think let me take care of the people doing the job now who aren’t giving us a reason to hire others the opportunity to capitalize on their pay with more.

But rather that they hire more drivers once again lessening the amount of loads to be dispatched and resulting in less pay.

Ultimately it leaves a bad taste about the company regarding pay when it could all be avoided if they take care of the employees they have currently.

They say if it’s not broken then don’t fix it and in sports if your team is losing you don’t replace the players if they are performing and showing up. You replace the coaching staff for bad play making aka dispatching.

Salud

They should have 0 stars. This place is the worst place I have ever worked for, and certainly the worst company I have ever drove for. I should’ve heeded all of the warnings posted in their reviews. The day they assigned me a truck and trailer, I found a laundry list of items that were of severe safety issues. The “yard supervisor” Mike Gaudig still tried to send me in the truck out to Georgia and the truck wouldn’t do more than 30mph, as well as no license plate, and expired insurance cards and inspection. Safety is of no concern to Mike, and he is a hazard to keep employed. When the truck finally made it back to Tampa (HQ) they worked on it for 8 hours, and then decided to keep it down there as the hefty repairs couldn’t be made in the same day. I wasted 2 days with no pay because of this. Almost no one speaks any English, and it’s extremely hard to communicate with anyone. Was turned down in Georgia the following Monday and banned indefinitely for parking in the wrong spot, which no one communicated. The drivers in the Brooksville yard would rather toss you under the bus than try to help, so yet another 11+ hour day with no pay. When loads are low, company drivers make >$50 a day, O/O make >$180 a day. The drivers I encountered here at this company were just steering wheel holders with large egos. I usually don’t leave reviews, but this company deserves it, and other potential employees need to beware. This took time out of my day to compose, but maybe it will save someone a headache.

Beware of this company. Do not work for them. They play games with your pay and do not pay you for what you worked. We are in the process of calling the labor board on them and the irs. Do not work for this company. Very dishonest

This guy ran me off the road today and then flipped me the middle finger. I see this guy is a repeat offender on the company reviews. What a horrible driver.

This truck just pulled out in front of us so much so we had to come to a complete stop for a couple minutes to let him go. It was a straight road, we were going normal speed on highway 50 Cortez. There is no way he couldn’t see us. What was the point of pulling out in front of us? If we weren’t looking for one second this driver would have caused a deadly accident.

Truck #2344 carrying a Utility brand thingy (sorry I don’t know what it’s called) with the number 943306 and license plate 118 7CV pulled out in front of me way faster than they should’ve. I’m not the driver, but we were steady going when all of a sudden the truck just whips out from where they were to turn. You shouldn’t be making turns in a TRUCK as fast as they were going. The truck honestly looked like it might’ve tipped if they went any faster