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Business Logistics. I ended up doing this because I was chasing down another opportunity, somebody was offering me more money than I was making to drive team, but the guy they who I was supposed to be teaming with quit at the last moment. So after spending almost 3 months home, Werner was more than happy to re-hire me, and I wasn't required to go with a trainer again.
I am now making much more money than I would have made with that other company, and I get to be solo, which is great, just me and my dog. I've been with Werner for little over a year now, and I really like it. Yea, it's got some ups and downs but other than that, it's just a day in the life of a truck driver.
Dealing with fleet managers, sitting and waiting on hold to get in contact with someone to talk to about daily problems you might run into. Getting a permit to have a pet is very simple. You need recent shot records and basic info about your pet.
There is no breed restriction which is perfect. Benefits are great. Vision, dental, and prescription all included. There are so many opportunities within the company as far as dedicated and teams. I worked a FedEx dedicated during Christmas season and it was fantastic. Fleet manager is awesome for that account.
Very understanding and knows what we go through everyday. The company now has mainly Kenworth and freightliners. I received one of the last standard peterbilts in the fleet. I very highly recommend this company to students just out of CDL school due to many changes within the company.
Werner has a lot of drivers who have been with them for many many years I personally have met a driver who has been with them for 31 years, another who has been with werner for A 5 million miler who had a truck stop named after him.. I have met numerous drivers with 5 or more years Air boat, 4 wheelers and a really cool Big Dawg chooper he got tnrough Werner..
So while it is true werner is a starter company for new drivers.. Started orientation in Phoenix on Aug 3rd and finished on the 5th. Had to wait for the drug test results to come back before they would place me with a trainer, results were back on Mon the 8th and have a trainer come to pick me up tomorrow. Orientation was long and boring, going over policies and such.
Lunch was provided, choice of about 8 meals from the food truck that comes into the terminal. Even if you have a DOT card they still do their own with their own in house doc. Urine and hair drug tests, rest of the physical is very simple no physical work test. Will update more as things progress. I'm posting this in the Werner section because my experience was neither great nor terrible. I just want to give an honest review of how my time at Werner went.
I started with Werner in May of Orientation was okay, nothing to talk about. Training was terrible. My first trainer was suspended because of an error made by the folks in Omaha. They cleared it up about a week later, but it was still a bad first impression.
My second trainer ran Phoenix to Fontana and took weekends off. I spent a lot of time in a motel and learned very little. Overall training took about 3 months because of how much time he had off. My first solo account was a Budweiser dedicated. This is the highest paying account other than the hand unload jobs. Unfortunately I had a very bad experience with the Budweiser account. I was assigned a lightweight freightliner columbia with , miles.
This led to a lot of problems with getting legal weights and having to be reloaded at the breweries. Frequently I sat for hours to get re loaded. Dispatch did not seem to care and the few times I was promised detention or layover pay I never saw a dime of it. Dollar General:. I only did this account for a week, so I don't have a lot to say about it.
I was supposed to go to the Wal Mart account, but they weren't ready for me. So I ran Dollar General for a week. That week I saw the largest paycheck I ever earned at Werner. Stay hydrated, plan your trips well, and plan your backing, lots of these stores were not meant for semi truck deliveries.
Wal Mart:. This was by far the best account I had at Werner. The miles were good ish a week but the pay was lower because of the longer distance runs. Walmart trailers are kept in much better condition than Werner trailers. Many loads are preloaded and all of them are dropped at WalMart DCs.
No live unloads. I was required to get hazmat, but Werner reimbursed me in full for it. Net OPs:. I was eventually offered a daily lane that got me about miles a week and home every night, weekends off. This was a good gig, but the money was just not there. I had my best dispatcher while working this lane. He was a real good guy and did everything he could to make me happy. I have been with my current company for 16 years and do km per month as a solo driver on a dedicated route.
All i need is a sponser for my work visa i want to work permantly in the us. WoW Kiddo it isnt so bad yes they will prolly put that on ur dac…if so u have about 5 years before it will come off unless u go and get it fixed just google fix my dac…. Now i suggest that u stop smokeing the gunji if u wanna drive a big truck…have u tried with any other bottom feeder companies yet cause thats proll if any u will get…try swift,prime,c. Dont work for Werner.
Pay is among the lowest. Miles are inadequate. Worst of all, the Paperloss Log System prevents you from cheating on your logs, which is essential on that occasional nite you cant find a spot to park your rig, but need a few extra minutes to find a parking spot. Werner used to be one of the best companies to work for, I am told.
Then C. Werner turned the company over to Junior, then the spit hit the pan. They havent had a raise in pay in years!
If your rig breaks down, good luck! Werner is probably the worst company out there in getting repairs done quickly. Truck stop service department mechanics have told me Werner is very bad in this area. Other truckers have told me Crete, Heartland Express, and Maverick are good to work for. Try them first. Beginning truckers-spend a day at the local truck stop counter asking truck drivers which company is the best to drive for. Buy a few cups of coffee, have a nice long breakfast, and tell the drivers at the counter you are a beginning driver and are looking for a good company.
Talk to as many truck drivers as you can before you choose a company! My experience with fellow truckers is they are pretty damn honest and most are willing to help out a fellow driver if they can. I wish I had done this, I might be a successful driver now.
Hey jst to give u an update, CL is back in the game. So let me tell u, I sure was happy to hear CL was back. CL runs the company as it should be run. These are great Men and Women putting good effort to help them appease their customers for that ol mighty dollar, sadly they get more than u. Benefits may be suitable if u ever get to use them,otherwise your giving ur money out to a source and that effects your paycheck like the taxes on top of other taxes and stuff ur government feels u should pay out.
Also some of these accounts are negligent, rude and inhuman. All of us have rights,ur not a,slave. Stand up for yourselves. They all have to understand through those pea-shell brains of theirs that with you they are nothing. The right to truth,fair pay and decency. If anyone else feels so grand by feeling special and treated so good well, u did allot off ass kissing and licking which I would never stoop low to do for anyone.
End of story. My husband has been driving for Werner for about three months now. He is part of a team. They have been given anywhere from miles to 3, miles.
They have frequently, even during this short time on the road. At that time told to get a rental car and drive from Ohio to Va where they picked up the next load. These are just a very few of the reasons. NOT to work for Werner. I agree. They are good at preaching but not practicing. No one should be treated like dirt. They say your in control of ur decisions of safety and when you utilize that they get upset.
The company is hypocritical on everything. And its sad that people are mislead. Their trailers are junk and never get reported for repair by other drivers. I lasted two months with Werner. Fresh out of training and I was sent to the East Coast running small loads all over the place.
No place for a rookie! I switched over to King Transportation which hauls Werner freight and gives you an owner operator status without the hassles of owning or leasing a truck. I demanded I would run solo or quit. I refuse to run illegal and will refuse an unsafe trailer. Just hook to the trailer, gamble with getting caught by DOT, and take it in for repair. Reality check! It takes up to SIX hours just to get a response via Qualcomm for repair and then it takes up to another SIX hours for the shop to get approval to do the repair.
Werner loves to have you sit. Their drop yards are ludicrous! My advice is this: Research, research, and research. Smaller companies sometimes mean better treatment. You will struggle financially your first year in Trucking. You call the shots out here when it comes to safety.
I drove for Werner for 8 years on a dedicated account. I can tell you the equipment is usually very good but the treatment is very poor. Everybody in the company is overworked and underpaid and it is reflected in their attitude. I was given a new truck, less than 20k miles and had to get an oil change over the road. Werner service set it up at a Petro and they did the service while I ate. The truck was towed I walked home to the dealership since it was under warranty.
So, Werner had the truck towed to the terminal. I call the log department, explain the situation to them and am told….
Poor attitudes, a complete lack of care by office staff, sub-standard pay all add up to a bad company. AS stated, I drove for them for 8 years. There are lots of better companies out there.
The reason Werner is so easy to get on with is because the turnover from drivers getting angry and leaving is very, very, very, very, very, VERY high. And seen the same asinine bs Swift pulled, I out up with Swift for 4 most. That crap about they CARE, is all a facade, they have no solution to how to handle a problem, no support, low level educated dweeb. They make children services County workers look smart.
High fives to you. I currently work for werner on net ops but am switching to 48 state team. In my experiance Werner is ok to get your foot in the door of the trucking industry. Have had alot of problems but it pays ok most of the truck are newish and not in terrable shape. My advice get 2 years at a company and then figure out if you want to move companys.
I know alot of drivers who have hopped companys and ended up coming back to werner at lest with werner you can try diffrent things from shag driving to 48 state flatbed van reffer what ever you feel like doing at the time. One more thing iv had the same thing happen to me that chris had shop moves truck and you sigh on and be negative on your hours ALWAYS send a 49 and check your hours before you take off. I work for werner as a Reg.
I started running NE reg, aka drivers choice did that for about a week then moved to a walmart account out of gas city, in not by choice I was forced to move to this account.
Its not a bad trk at all, no brk downs, no trouble. However getting things app like tier repair or mud flap replaced does take a very long time. The money sucks. Thats crap for living in the trk 14 days at a time. Im looking to roll with another co.
That can get me home every 2 wks. I know all trucking co. Any help would be app. I worked for Werner 7 months.. It was not uncommon for me to sit through the weekends. The company appears to be a leader in moving freight, howeve,. I could not afford to work there.. I drove with Werner for a little over three years, and I will concur with some of the negative comments that have been posted regarding low miles and bizzare treatment by the company.
But I can testify as to the terrible handling by the maintenance division, and the logs department was a horrible joke. The logs department would then argue endlessly over the corrections I would send in and tell me I was lying about being in the same spot.
I would also agree that the company went down hill after Old Man Werner gave the company over to his kids, it became a true nightmare of penny pinching and false praise to the drivers. I actually like werner. Over the last 12 months they been in my corner.. I had 2 relatives that passed on..
I was late On a lot of loads and still they managed to get me miles.. I am trainer and a good one make good money Even as a solo. I have a good dispatcher Aaron, who seems to understand.
He some how manages my Truck and my crazy life just right!!!! With the Dollar General account when I was on that account back in it was a good account to be on. I was home almost every weekend.
It was going good till it went to straight rolltainer then one day I got stupid and wore cowboy boots and the heavy rolltainer on the decline I had to part pushed me back. I ended up hurting my back pretty bad on it.
After that I switched to the Kraft account due to the back injury, that was honestly my fault. Now as far as the company goes I worked for Werner from July September My decision to switch companies was due to the low pay. When I went to the Kraft account I was running around miles a week. I kept a record of all my miles in notebooks. I had a different note book for every month. All loads, miles, etc was recorded in those notebooks that I still have to this day.
While I was there I had 2 different rigs. My first semi was a Freightliner Classic which ran perfectly. My second truck was a Peterbuilt When I switched to the Kraft account; after being on that account for about a month I asked my fleet manager if I could switch to a Pete which he did get done for me.
Personally I like the paperless logs now cause they do keep you honest. There had been a few times that I had to drive some extra miles to find a place to park for the night, and the log department did work with me pretty well, and fixed the 15 minutes.
They also fixed a 30 minute mistake that had to be worked with. There was 2 weeks I ran without the Qualcomm due to a malfunction which I had to do paper logs Werner reimbursed me for the paper logs I bought , and my fleet manager on the Kraft account called me, and e-mailed me load information. During those two weeks I was still able to pull great miles. I complained about it, and even though it took a couple months for the mistake to be fixed it was fixed, and I got the money they owed me.
I called them to ask what I got that money for. They told me the trip information and everything for where that money came from. I think Werner is a great company. I am seriously debating between Schneider National and Werner Enterprises. Plus I can take the truck home. I reside in California and I am looking for any good information available to confirm this. Thank you. Dunno about these guys. But so far Werner has been ok to me. I am a rookie in 3rd week of training.
I signed up for 48 and decided to knock out my training out with no breaks like an adult not expecting to be babied like some of these guys crying about home time. I waited 1 whole day to be assigned a trainer. I started out ez, shooting from Cali to the east coast on the Then I went right into runs thru Chicago and New York.
Much quicker than sitting high gear on the flat open expanses some you whiners want to waste you on. I have seen little downtime. I never expected Werner to be a great money maker, merely a way into the industry and so far it seems like a good one. It sounds like a lot of these negative reviews come from ppl who left Werner for whatever reason and just want to complain and burn them.
Dispatchers are people too. They will up. Heck some of them are probably training like me. I am an owner op with werner and i love it, i run on sams board never leaving texas ot pays great and we have nothing but great drivers on this board the people are friendly but sam can be a dick, i have been with werner now foe almpst 2 years and have been driving for over 5 yeaes this ia by far the best company i have ever been with, but sadly to say i could make more money as a owner operator with diffwrwnt companies.
Had a Great experience so far at Werner, Training was awsome! My trainer was a true trucker and tought me things like he cared about his job. His name was Lafe Morrison from what I have observed from this guy is he really takes pride in his job and his work. He is a perfectionist!
From what I have learned trucking isnt a job as much as a privilege responsibility. Offered raise and dedicated run with tuition paid for so i took the job and went to Werner and spent 1 month in training.
So far so good! On the Dollar general acct you WILL work your butt off when you unload the trailer, you will get home every weekend but only for 34hrs no more. If they get real busy, and need you, you will not go home. I was on the Dollar General acct in Fulton MO, The people were ok, but the trailers were allways loaded heavy and sometimes took hrs to unload. There are a lot of stores that you have to go to that are very very difficult to get to. Beware You have to unload the trailer by yourself, no help from the store people, and sometimes you have to do their jobs of puting the stuff away for them, but they will not help you.
I got off that acct as soon as I could. I used to work for them. I was home every weekend. They treated me very well for only having 3mo experience. Newer Century Class Freightliners.
Kept me busy! If someone is willing to take all that on, then he or she will probably be better off by knowing it from the start. Werner has some of the newest equipment available in the industry. This includes trucks with automatic transmissions, collision mitigation technology, and in-cab communication devices. Their average truck is only 1. Even their late-model equipment has added safety technology features. These allow drivers the ability to comfortably and securely do their jobs.
Werner Enterprises offers a comprehensive benefits package to truck drivers that can be custom-built to both the drivers and their families.
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