Experience the Blackhawk Difference
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Blackhawk Transport
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Company Benefits |
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- Premium Benefits - 40-60% lower cost to the employee with
low deductibles
- Short Term Disability and Long Term Disability 100% Company paid
- 401(k) Company match
- Company paid $10,000 life insurance policy for drivers
- Wide range of benefits offered including FSA, Dental, Vision, and Voluntary Life Insurance
- Vacation and holiday pay
- Safety, retention, referral, and special needs sign-on bonuses
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- Benefits - higher cost to the employee with less coverage and high deductibles
- Not Company paid or not offered
- No Company match
- No life insurance covered by the Company or offered
- Basic medical coverage
- No vacation or holiday pay
- Minimum to no bonuses for employees
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Equipment |
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- Late model equipment - average age is 17 months
- State of the art dispatch technology
- Electronic DVIR's
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- Older equipment - typically 3+ years or older
- Standard dispatch technology
- Paper DVIR's
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Safety Compliance |
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- High hiring standards
- 2-year minimum driving experience
- 23 years of age requirement
- CSA score compliance
- CSA compliance focused - 100% e-logging Company
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- Pulse? "Can you fog a mirror?"
- Lowering criteria
- Lower average age experience
- Not focused on CSA scores
- CSA?
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Growth and Opportunity |
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- New opportunities to grow
- Flexibility to move within accounts
- Career pathing opportunities
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- No room for growth
- No flexibility to meet employee needs
- No advancement opportunities
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Company Highlights |
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- Core Values - Respect, Opportunity, Work Hard - Have Fun, Entrepreneur Spirit, Family, Give Back, and American Pride
- Hendricks World Class Ownership
- Smaller Company - cares about individuals and acts as a team
- Open door policy
- Answers the phone and you speak with a live, helpful person
- Open to change
- Team approach
- Strives to be a great workplace with continuous improvement
- Family orientated - more home time and local accounts
- Family involvement - spousal calls, children's essay contests, annual roadeo
- Dedicated accounts
- Support staff treats them as if they were one of them
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- Core Value - just get the job done
- Other various ownership - NYSE, "Mom & Pop", etc...
- Larger Companies - employees are a number
- Closed door
- Relies on voicemail and automated systems
- Not open to change
- Everyone is for themselves
- Content with "status quo"
- Focused on profit - more OTR and out weeks at a time
- Not focused on family involvement
- "You call, we haul" brokerage freight
- Support staff treats them as a number
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