Saia LTL Freight Reviews

Pros

Great base pay for an account management/outside sales position. Great financial incentives to drive sales. All paid company car, including gas for work and personal use. Freedom to truly manage and grow your sales territory, with some exceptions.

Cons

Standard PTO (2 weeks as a new employee and grows over time), but this is becoming a deterrent in today's job market. Poor technology that makes it impossible to manage day-to-day while trying to make sales in the field. Poor technology leads to long nights of updating the clunky CRM system. Sales could be at the bane of the success of operations, who have completely different incentives than sales. It's hard to grow sales when you have a terminal manager that could care less about increasing the amount of freight through his/her terminal. When a terminal manager only carries about on-time delivery to established accounts and low claims, it's tough to convince them to bring on more freight. Very hierarchical organization. Management above is looking to appease management above and so on. Sales management and guidance is very old school. Smaller sales territories and terminals often get neglected by sales management and you can very much feel alone. Sales initiatives by corporate were feasible in larger cities and sales territories, but the same results were expected out of more rural and less dense areas. Sales goals need to be adjusted for the sales territory.

Pros

Salary Was high for trucking sales

Cons

Racist supervisors Inadequate management who moved up the ranks through company buy outs Major terminals losing management left and right due to inadequate policies Terrible policies HR biased based on friendships Boiler room sales Can’t deliver to the customer on time No willingness to budge if you aren’t favored VP of sales has little man syndrome; management passes around pics of him on conference calls Cornerstone Factors of company isn’t followed but looks nice on a poster Made sales into part time caterers for drivers Us verses them with new employees Major terminals running on a staff of 5 Gross unkept terminals

Pros

Operations ran great, they always worked well with the Sales side.

Cons

Senior sales management is not to be trusted. I was recruited, then let go after my indoctrination. No warning.

Pros

Pay is good long hours

Cons

Small dock, Freight is all over dock, no room to work local and domestic, very strict