Estes Express Lines Employer Reviews

If you are looking for a company that is stuck in 1990 then this is the place for you. As an employee you are micro managed and if you have any ideas to share keep them to yourself. No one wants to hear them. Upper management is totally out of touch with today's world and management for yesterday instead of today and the future.

The upper management of Estes attitude toward IT is stuck in the 1950's. If you don't mind working all night and having the company president watch you come in a 9:15 and complain to the IT manager this may be company for you! If you can over look this and the political games and nepotism it was a pretty job secure environment for now ... things are – more...  changing. – less

I have learned so much while with this company. If you're willing and wanting to learn and take on more, management will certainly give the work to you; just don't expect to receive any recognition or pay increase.

I was hired by Estes as an Analyst(NOT A PROGRAMMING INSTRUCTOR). It seems as if management does not want to solve problems with the workability of individual account databases. Other analysts that have been there longer, avoid repairing problems within the system and at times, avoid doing anything at all. The customer service people are always frustrated – more...  when they can't actually print out reports from the databases. Through all this, management does not seem to care what happens or doesn't happen. I took it upon myself to try to help everyone solve their problems, but only got criticized for that. Most everyone was very happy with what I did for them. Management asked me to leave. If you want to be frustrated, confused, and stressed out, because you can't get anything done, go work for Estes. If you want to get stuck teaching others programming, go work for Estes. – less

I worked in conjunction with the shop. Work atmosphere is very good. Everything is set up with a shop structure in mind. Which makes everything easily accessible for everyone in the shop.

uncertaintee. management needs a upgrade to modern day needs.

During a typical work day I drove a Hi-Lo and worked in the yard swithching. I worked the morning shift where I met many friendly co-workers who where self motivated and ready to get the job done.

Good place to work,co workers friendly and team players .no room for advancemant.

Everyone is so nice to work with from Ellenwood to Richmond, VA. The hardest part of the job was the manual processes. The most enjoyable part was coming to work everyday

Great upper Management but overcapacity in the fully matured transportation market is hurting Transportation and Logistics providers and their employees.

Company has a good direction for growth. Growth will come slowly. Estes is in it for the long haul.

Great Company Great atmosphere
Learned many things in the areas of freight and material hadling

Estes Express is a good company to work for as long as you do not makes any mistakes. If you do
can expect that your position may be be taken away from you pending what they refer to as "an investigation". There is a company handbook for guidance, but is often not followed by management
and the guidelines are changed with out notice to benefit the company.

Estes is a great employer as far as hourly wage but it can become some what of an burden for someone who is particulary family oriented . The job also requires you to be able to deal with weather conditions in side the warehouse that you may not be use to such as driving a forklift on a rainy,icy,snow packed dock

when I was there there was no cutting corners, units were repaired to factory specs and pm's were done very precisely no errors were tolerated

I loved working here, I worked at Estes for 5 years. The management were easy to get along with, and so were other employees. Estes had great pay with fast advancements.

At Estes I was an invoice clerk/account representative for about 75 shops and terminals worldwide. I would process any invoices that I received from the shops and terminals and keying them into the AS400 database to be paid by our account department. I also made and received a lot of calls from outside vendors, whereas I had to make sure that the vendors – more...  was paid for their services rendered. – less

will not give rises, health care to no high,you have to tell manager's good morning, or you will be wrote up. will fire you if you are 1 minute for the week. company is not giving 40 hours a week, only 32 a week truck workers, and 35 hours a week for parts clerks, they where going to give parts clerk 32 hours, and i complained. Every one has to do the – more...  management job, in the shop. Management never gets in trouble, employee's do. Management tell you to do some thing and lies, and says i didn't tell you to do that!!!!!!! There is no talking at any time. management puts you down all the time. – less

I worked for the company for 9 years in multiple terminals throughout the US. In this time, I worked hard and offered a lot to the company; however, I found out that they don't value their employees by offering advancements or substantial pay increases. Hourly dockworkers and office employees are treated poorly. I went through transfer situations where – more...  I was made to quit and be rehired (twice) in order to work at another terminal. With this, my pay was cut and my seniority and vacation were taken away. More recently (within the last 2 years), my hours were cut from 40+ to barely getting 35. Because of this, being with such a large company (who claims to value their employees) was no longer an option for me, so I quit. I was unable to support my family on a $12/hr wage after working for Estes for 9 years. – less

policies are strict but,supervisors and lead personel are great to work for.