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This driving job is not for everyone. It requires dedication, organization, and good work ethics.  Being a new driver is difficult because you need to know procedures,  policies, and the mechanics of driving and maintaining your truck and also working the scanner. It's a bit like the chicken or the egg, in that you need to know everything to do the job, but you enter a learning curve that shows continuing knowledge is required. I am retired from the Ottawa terminal after 36 years of driving. I often came in early to fine sort the truck and achieve an understanding of how that day would unfold, as each day unfolded differently and required a new plan to get things done. Knowledge of school times and their busses, and busines lunches, and break times and a host of other information can be used to make a delivery plan as the day progresses. They have a  pension plan which is matched dollar for dollar by the company and has figured prominently in my retirement.  Pension plans are hard to find today, and are like gold, a good reason to consider Can Par on it's own, but add to that a good salary, time and a half for anything over 8 hours, up to 6 weeks vacation, and this career oriented job can take you to a decent retirement too.

The drivers are friendly and upbeat for the most part, but due to lack of effective management during the whole two years of my employment at Canpar, they would often return disgruntled or stressed. I've seen multiple employees take an extended stress leave to deal with stress of the job during my tenure. Shortly after I was hired, a new interim manager showed up to fill the position, untill a permanent one was found.
They eventually filled the position after a month or so, with someone who has poor interpersonal and communication skills, causing many errors in service and complaints from customers and carriers alike. Eventually half the drivers had walked off the job, and they were forced to offer the positions to owner operators, changing the entire preload operations, resulting in even more service failures. The manager was inept in his understanding of unload, preload, and delivery aspects of the warehouse operations, and caused mass confusion, forcing many employees to work long shifts to avoid further service failure. He had no knowledge of the scanning equipment or computer tracking programs, and made little to no effort to improve during my tenure at the depot. Instead he would make excuses and pass blame to other employees or customers, being extremely confrontational. Great workforce solid guys. Management needs work

If you like overtime, you're going to like this job. Its not terribly hard work but it is fast paced. No BS, you will go in and out of your truck 150+ times a day. The scanners they use are a bit intimidating but you'll get onto it fairly quick. Its more important to know the routine with the scanner more than anything else at this job. Your truck is loaded for you by night staff and a little postal code map will be drawn for you on how it was loaded on the shelves and floors. It helps, but you still have to plan your route. Various ways to do that and you'll develop yours. Management is typical, safety talks in the office but do whatever it takes out in the field to get the job done. Its a union job, but not very observed. As for co-workers, you barely interact with them for 10 mins a day, you're on your own. Its alright work, but like I said there will be OT. 1 1/2 time pay for it though and you can bank it up to 40hrs. You'll need it because there are no sick days. Boo, not very family friendly. No work, no pay. Not very union at all. No urine tests, so pot smokers can get a job here. Hardest part is the boxes and stairs. Alot of one arm balancing while opening doors. The best part is the driving in your own truck. You can bring a fat lunch box and eat while you work to get done faster.

My day at work was pretty much routine, I would come to work straight to conveyor belt where I would stand for two hours working until my first break. I have learned to check packages which contained suspicious items and products before puting them on conveyor belt. management was really good, if something was wrong during work we would always consult with floor manager who was great at resolving issues among employees. employees usually got along pretty well except for bossy employees. the hardest part of the job was dealing with packages that did not have final destination on the envolope. the most enjoyable part of them was just working with people who communicated pretty well.

As a current employee of Canpar in Toronto they treat you horribly. Forced overtime, benefits after 5years. Company runs the union. Supervisors are all out to cut each other and don’t care about the job, supervisors I don’t care rubs off on the employees then they don’t care anymore. Very poorly run place, union doesn’t do anything for their employees. DO NOT WORK HERE. If you try to stand up for yourself they make your life miserable. Won’t let you leave if your feeling Sick and are at risk of injuring yourself. All injuries are considered your fault and you will be discaplined for injuring yourself regardless of how the injury took place. 

Very bad for your health, because of poor air circulation it’s dead air full of dust your immune system will deminish and you will become sick more frequent

Additionally, the work environment at Canpar Express was toxic and demoralizing. Office politics and favoritism seemed to dictate many decisions, overshadowing professionalism and fair treatment. This environment not only affected morale but also hindered productivity and collaboration among team members.

I strongly advise potential employees to thoroughly evaluate Canpar Express's management practices and work culture before considering employment. My unfortunate experience highlights significant deficiencies in leadership and organizational integrity that undermine employee trust and job satisfaction.

Worked for them for over a decade. It was always a demanding job - physical, on super tight schedules, all weather conditions, etc - and not exactly a place where they took you by the hand, but it was challenging and enjoyable if you took it as exercise you were paid decent money to do and most of the guys were cool to work with. Ever since they got bought out by Transforce the pressures became unbearable, the workload undoable, the personnel cuts unsustainable. The culture became ever more intimidating. Real experts at sucking the motivation out of their best workers. Now they've switched to owner operators and treat them even worse. Avoid.

Worked here as a college student in the warehouse and it was a great job for my situation. 

Pros

-Bosses were great, coworkers were great although ever so revolving. The general culture among those who’ve been there a while though is amazing and super friendly. 

-Very fast paced environment and not one for those who like to sit around. I worked unloading trucks as well as packing the large freight trailer. If you want To be moving and lifting this is the job for you. 

- Pays above minimum wage

Cons

-Only so many hours you can realistically work given what your task is. Granted I went from working three hours to six so if you’re a good worker and they can they’ll find work for you. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Decent salary friendly environment   benefits  flexible hours. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Fast paced, because it's a courier company there's always vehicles moving in and out, this can cause some stress in the winter months, machine break down. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Friendly, teamwork . An environment where one can learn, and even improve their language skills in both French and English. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Normal. Just been prepared to carry on with the tasks.

Besides the long hours of hard labour stacking boxes in trailers, Canpar was a decent work place. Co workers were helpful and friendly, and the environment was safe for the type of work. Management had its up and downs mainly depending on who your supervisor is. A typical day at work would be to enter a 32 or 64 foot trailer, then stack boxes to the roof until the whole trailer is filled. The hardest part of the job is the strain on your body after lifting heavy boxes for multiple hours. The most enjoyable part of the job was meeting new people from work and getting paid.

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