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| Date | Jul-15-2012 |
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| Message | I drove for the big blue screw for 7 months in 2005-2006. Came from working in the oilfields, wanting to try my hand at something new. I already had my CDL obtained from my tenure an oilfield company. Of course they promise the ol' .36 a mile, but I wound up with .29, whatever, I figured Iam starting at the bottom,have to work my way up. I was young and dumb at the time. After the orientation, which I must say is a joke, I was required to do 35 hours of trainee driving. My trainer was a good safe driver, million miler, so I will not bash him. I wanted to go into flatbed, so I trained with a flatbed driver. Of course after my training they come back and say I have to do another 140 hours. Well, this will not do, I need to get out and start making some money. I was put on [random punk dispatcher name removed] board. He had to be one of the most inept dispatchers to ever walk the earth. Constantly got me home late for my home time and then had the audacity to call me back early. After a nice heated debate with him, I wound up on Dollar General in Indianola. Fun gig, good dispatcher, made ok money, not for me. Long story short, I went back to the oilfield and have never looked back. Werner did nothing but put a bad taste in my mouth for the trucking industry, I will only go to it if I absolutely must. Safe travels everyone |
| Date | Mar-06-2012 |
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| Message | After 40 years I retired, my wifes been driving 15 years. We have heard all kinds of horrors about companies like,Engand,Snyder,Werner,Hunt etc. They are all the same. But I have to say alot of it you people have let them do it to you. Yes I was a teamster and so is my wife as were all my uncles and cousins that drive or did. Most of us who were or are union driver give up trying to talk to any of you about joining. Why ? Because you've allowed these companies "brain wash" you. No we don;t pay high dues in most cases $60 - 80 a month. What do you get for that ? 60-90 cpm plus clock time of $23-$26 per hour for "not driving on duty" Fueling,drop& hooks, break down, waiting for you unit to be dropped & hook. No handling freight, you're a driver not a dock hand. Plus your HOME people. But there are alot of you who won't believe any of what I've written. Did I forget ? all health ,dental, eye care paid for by your insurance that the company pays for ,NOT YOU and this covers you and your family. Just in case you might like to know I get $4000.00 a month in Pension cheek every month. And for all you Southerns that might be reading this there is no Mafia in the teamsters. I've listed to all that BS for years and all I do is just shake my head and laugh while putting my money in the bank. One more last myth I have to tell you. For this kind of pay you will work your ass off ....truth . Mike |
| Date | Feb-17-2012 |
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| Message | So True!!! |
| Date | Jul-31-2011 |
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| Message | PS my employee number is the same number from 10 years ago. The difference in my number from the number of a new driver in orientation is: 188204. Even IF this is employees over all......in 10 years thats one hell of a number. Like I said. A driver mill. |
| Date | Jul-31-2011 |
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| Message | I drove for werner 10 yrs ago as a student. I stayed about 10 months and got a much better job. I drove for 8 years thereafter. After not being in a truck for 3 years, earning a college degree...I found myself unemployed. Needless to say it is quite difficult to get back into a truck without a refresher course. You guessed it, werner is the only company that would hire me. I have a spotless accident free record. No accidents in all of those years. I get to go out with a "trainer" for 140 hours. Which in werner time is two months. I chose a female trainer this time. The first time I went through 3 different males who thought my job was to spend time with them in the bunk. The last trainer had locked himself in the truck and was smoking crack at a truck stop. Very little has changed except now when I sit waiting for the red light of the qualcomm god to ignite I have to do so in a 100° or more cab. The APU malfunctions constantly and I have spent 3 or more days in the shop for the last three weeks. I have to do at least 10 more months at werner penetentiary before I can get a real trucking job. Since they intend to pay me exactly what I made 10 years ago per mile I feel as though I may still have to foreclose on my mortgage and maybe unemployment would be just as well. No, werner does not care about a driver. Werner enterprises is a driver mill, bottom line.
I am sorry that you have to relive the nightmare. I have decided that one would much better off working at a gas station than for a company like Werner. By the time they get through ripping you off so C.L. can make the payments on his private jet, and factoring in how much you spend on the road, the risk that they will ruin your D.A.C. by lying, you would be much better off working at Wallmart while you search for a better job. At least you will be home every night and will probably come out money ahead while Werner works their magic with that sliding scale rip-off scam. Please pray for C.L. Werner. He must be well aware of the suffering, pain, ruined dreams, broken families and forfeited mortgages that he has caused by his lying scumbag recruiters and scam-o-matic pay scale while he lives like a King. If you have ears to hear with, listen. If you have eyes to see with then see. The Apostle John wrote: "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world" (1 John 2:15-16). So which is it, C.L.? Do you love the Lord or do you love mammon? “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” (The Gospel according to St. Matthew 6:24) I humbly beg of you to fall on your knees and repent. Please pray for C.L.....(Ed.) |
| Date | Jun-24-2011 |
| Message | I trained with two "trainers" at Werner. They both constantly violated standard rules regarding speed limits, cornering speeds, following distances, maintenance, lane changes, etc. They literally did more things wrong than they did correctly. My second trainer hadn't even been driving for a year when he became a trainer and he already had a preventable incident on his record in that short time. The "training" was so disgraceful that there is no way that Werner has a legitimate process for picking its trainers. I am not trying to be offensive here, but truck driving is one of the easiest jobs out there and its standards are very easy to meet. If drivers can't meet those standards, and companies like Werner repeatedly demonstrate they have no interest in enforcing those standards, then those drivers should be out of work and those companies should be out of business. It is absolutely disgraceful that the trucking industry is allowed to conduct itself in this negligent manner that causes the deaths of 100s each year. Sure, there's always going to be accidents, and plenty of those accidents are caused by non-truckers. This does not, however, excuse the 100s of lives lost each year due to the negligence of irresponsible trucking companies. The states and USDOT need to tighten the noose on these clowns until they either get it right or get shut down. |
| Date | Jun-24-2011 |
| Message | I trained with two "trainers" at Werner and both of them cheated the 70 hour clock on their logs and tried to force me to do so as well. Additionally, they both constantly violated standard rules regarding speed limits, cornering speeds, following distances, maintenance, lane changes, etc. They literally did more things wrong than they did correctly. My second trainer hadn't even been driving for a year when he became a trainer and he already had a preventable incident on his record in that short time. The "training" was so disgraceful that there is no way that Werner has a legitimate process for picking its trainers. I am not trying to be offensive here, but truck driving is one of the easiest jobs out there and its standards are very easy to meet. If drivers can't meet those standards, and companies like Werner repeatedly demonstrate they have no interest in enforcing those standards, then those drivers should be out of work and those companies should be out of business. It is absolutely disgraceful that the trucking industry is allowed to conduct itself in this negligent manner that directly causes the deaths of 100s each year. Sure, there's always going to be accidents, and plenty of those accidents are caused by non-truckers. This does not, however, excuse the 100s of lives lost each year due to the negligence of irresponsible trucking companies. The states and USDOT need to tighten the noose on these clowns until they either get it right or get shut down. |
| Date | Jun-11-2011 |
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| Message | I went through orientation to go take trucks from peter built denton back to the yard in lancaster. This 4 hour trip payed $40. I was the first driver to complain about doing this instead of getting a truck and going to work. I came in saturday like they asked me to. I was informed that they didn't have any trucks soooo.. no trucks they sure don't need me I handed them my badge and out the door I went. |
| Date | Jun-04-2011 |
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| Message | WERNER DOES NOT CARE ABOUT ANY ONE ! THIS IS THE WORST JOB MY HUSBAND HAS EVER HAD ,,AND YES THEY PAINT A REALLY GOOD PICTURE,,BUT ITS ALL BULLSHIT! MY HUSBAND HAS NEVER BEEN FIRED FROM ANY JOB AND IS A VERY HARD WORKER,,WELL LET ME TELL YA WERNER IS WORKING HIM TO DEATH FOR PENNIES,,NOT EVEN PENNIES REALLY,,ONCE AGAIN,PAY ROLL COMES AROUND AND NO MONEY WAS PUT IN THE BANK,BUT, MIND YOU HE DROVE OVER 70 HRS THIS WEEK,JUST LIKE EVERY WEEK ,THE MOST HE HAS GROSSED IS $1,000,,BRINGING HOME $750.00 ,WHICH IS KINDA OK,BUT NOT REALLY,GONE FROM UR FANILY FOR 30 FREAKIN DAYS ,,BUSTING ASS TO UNLOAD THESE STUPID TRUCKS,,NOT TO MENTION ,JUST PUTTING UP WITH ALL OF WERNERS CRAP,,LIKE ALL THE DAMN FINES HE KEEPS GETTING,,WELL MAYBE IF HE WASENT PUSHED SO MUCH HE WOULD NOT GO OVER,,I KNOW THEY MANIPULATE HIS HRS,ONE TIME HE WAS OUT OF HRS AND THE GUY TOLD HIM TO CHECK BACK IN A FEW MIN.,,, HE MAGICALY HAD 5 MORE HRS,,,,THESE PEOPLE THAT WORK FOR WERNER ARE ONLY OUT FOR THEM SELVES AND THAT IS A FACT !! STAY AWAY FROM WERNER,,THEY ARE RIP OFFS IN EVERY WAY !!! ANGRY AS HELL,RHONDA |
| Date | Mar-24-2011 |
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| Message | I'm not sure what you are talking about. I have driven for Werner for 15 years. I have held an OTR, Dedicated, Flatbed, and TCU position. I have trained off and on for 8 years. I consistently have made $1800/wk, since my training period. Sure, dispatch can get under your skin, but I'm a firm believer that if you do what you are suppose to, you won't be harassed. I suppose for a national carrier with 12000 drivers, your are going to have 20 of you that are upset. Good luck with whatever carrier you wind up at. Transportation is transportation, and Werner has done a great job of making me feel wanted, and allowing me freedom. Are you smoking crack? Werner makes you feel wanted? Oh yeah. I remember. "Werner cares. We care". What a joke. They pasted that crap everywhere. Werner was the absolute worst job of my entire life. I made more money from my paper route when I was 11 years old than I did from Werner. You just keep smoking that rock and repeating that mantra "Weener cares" enough times and I guess it might seem true. In the mean time, post your last pay stub of the year for 2010 showing $93,600.00 gross or stop lying. I triple dog dare you! Naturally you can't because you are lying. Your claimed $1800.00 a week at Weener comes out to $93,600.00 a year. After "15 years" you are now a millionaire! Hell, everybody knows that all millionaires come out of Weener trucks. I'm surprised you aren't retired by now, flying your helicopter of the deck of your own yacht on the way to play golf with CL Weener himself in Hawaii!! Retard. You insult my limited intelligence. One of my trainers at Weener was a 20 year driver who claimed to be topped out at .45 cents a mile. He lived in a broken down trailer house and had a 1986 pick up so I wonder if he even made that. I asked how long it takes new guys to make .45 cents a mile and he told me "Never". New guys are on a different pay scale. Besides, no matter what you say, Weener chews 'em up and spits 'em out faster that a Major League outfielder eating a fist full of sunflower seeds. Werner is a driver mill. Write back soon so I can jack you up some more! POST YOUR PAY STUB or SHUT UP. Here's how to do it. Upload it to photobucket and paste the link here. We're all waiting! (ROTFLMAO) By the way, what are you really? A recruiter or a manager? I can't figure it. You lie just like a recruiter but you think everybody but you is stupid, just like a manager. Ed. |
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