Southeastern Freight Lines Employer Reviews

In the morning you wait until your trailer is loaded and clock in. Unless you have seniority you start at 10 am which is a bummer especially if you have a long route which you will get back in around 7 to 10, whereas senior workers start at 7 and are done by 5 usually. I have found that I did more work when I started at 7 am compared to the senior guys. – more... It gets to you after a while that the company isn't based on work performance.
Next you check the freight in your trailer and rearrange if needed which it is usually always needed. The dock supervisors lack the respect for drivers to get it done right the first time. After that you fuel up and grab your trailer and go. Usually you will have 12-22 stops a day and when you are done with you deliveries you will start picking up freight on the way back to the warehouse. When back at warehouse, you drop trailer in your dock door and turn the paperwork in. Clock out and wait until the next day. You get the weekends off. – less

sometimes long hours, gave me the chance to really learn people, also learned that some people are not cut out to be good managers when it comes to certain issues,worked well and communicated with my fellow co-workers,working at night along with the not so pleasant working conditions,and i really enjoyed the pay.

A typical day at work is filled with structure and deadlines. This criteria is met through strategic planning and managing by prevention. I have the ability to make mistakes and learn from them to avoid them in the future. I manage through information. I keep everyone in the know about where they stand with performance and how to make it to the next – more... level of their career. My co-workers see me as a means to a solution. My peers use me as a reference in so decisions being made in their operations. The hardest part of the job is the time of the operation, not the quantity of hours. The most enjoyable part of the job is the ability to make decisions quickly and based off of the best possible information. I enjoy training and equipping people for success and furthering their careers. – less

I didn't stay here long, but enjoyed the time that i was here. Good management and good people.

This is where I learned to lead. This job taught me that there is always a systematic reasoning for every sucess and value. The core values of this company are some of the best that I have ever seen. I use the things that I was taught here in many aspects of my personal life.

I worked nights and it felt like we were the underdogs of a great company. Day shift employees received more perks, while we worked 40-50+ hours every night. Makes it hard to raise kids or have a personal life.

A typical day at work consisted of sitting at the computer 8-12 hours a day transferring information from the bill of lading to the SEFL computer system for further processing. I learned how to accurately transfer the information in order for the freight to be transported to it's destination.

Type in information for orders being brought in and distributing to another location. Scanning orders to corporate. Help with preparing paperwork for the truck drivers.

Not a good place to work. After 8 years they let me go. Not a secure safe work environment.

I only worked for SEFL for around 9 months, but I learned a great deal about logistics in my time spent there. Fellow Co-Workers were quite friendly for the most part, but every place has the select few bad seeds. At the Memphis terminal it was mainly advancement from within. Most of their dock supervisors, and managers were extremely helpful in training – more... and willing to get in a trailer and work along side you, which is hard to find in most work areas. Not very flexible with requesting days off; say for instance my grandfather, whom I was very close too, passed away and I requested the day off for his funeral and was denied.. needless to say I did not come in. – less

Most days are quite repeatitive, that was my only big problem with the position. Easy money. Everything usually ran quite smoothly until towards the end of the night when when dock supervisors would be overwhelmed with the odd sized and shaped freight coming in. Mostly managment knew what they were doing, but with any company there are those few that – more... got the position from brown nosing or just fresh out of college with a business degree and have no idea what to do in the actual field of work. For the most part though, most of managment though I had and still have an extreme ammount of respect for them. Not only have they taught me how to do well on my job, but taught me great life lessons and how to better my self as an employee and person. – less

Work nights and travel state to state and not knowing where you are going to be from dispatch to dispatch is the hardest part of the job.. Great pay and benefits..Great co-workers and the management team.

Not a good company for women to work for.
They pay men more than women for doing the same job. Due to being a women I was talk down to ,yelled and screamed by dispatcher. Terminal manager did nothing.

staff very friendly, flexible with time off and personal matters, can be hectic during busy season

great management, and just all around great work environment!!!

Very poor management, hard on their workers. Demanded alot out of employees. Like to write up people to fill their file up in case they deceided they wanted to terminate them. Less pay for me then male supervisors peforming same job duties.

Friendly co workers as well as managers that understand. Working with customers daily is wonderful as well!

great teamwork great working conditons. great communications with other people to get the job done. but lack of getting up in the company.

On dock all day doing same thing.
Learned a lot about the freight business.
Management was always concerned about bottom line and did not care what it took to get done. Had no respect for our personal lives.
Other similar co-workers were good, hourly workers were a different story.
Hardest part was doing the exact same thing every day, without change.
Most – more... enjoyable part was the interaction between co-workers. – less

Southeastern Freight Lines is a wonderful company to work for. They are a company with values and care about their employess. They take care of their employees. Great management and very friendly co-workers.