So you figure thers is a simple solution to her situation, in trucking with dac involved, with negative entries: nothing has a simple solution. As for ltl companies most are ATA members who work hand and hand with dac and I am inclined to believe they started dac. Besides she is still hurt.

I would recommend the newbies beware of starting out with Werner. The trainer that I had just used me to get more miles. I almost always drove the "night shift" and he would take over when we delivered. I almost never backed
the truck in training even though I asked him often to give me some instruction in it. When I had trouble backing on my road test, they just
had me back into a larger space. I pretty much had to learn backing the truck on the job. When I had been with them for 3 months my dispatcher asked if I was interested in being a trainer. I had to laugh out loud, but that's all the experience that they require to be a trainer.

If you go with Werner and you don't feel that you're getting good training
request another trainer and another if you have to. Many people have had the experience that I had. Most of the trainers are only interested in the extra miles that they can get with a student driver.

That is an old story but is a legitimate complaint.
One of the things to look for in a company is if they have a "training" program find out how much experience it takes to be a trainer. If it's only a couple months then stay away from them. Six months OTR is not enough experience to train.

Jon; I agree with you 1000%!

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No Chains for the ice & snow???

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Werner suplies cable chains for their trucks...

OH, Well Jon I guess they were not used at that point.Maybe they should have!

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My brother just walked off a job with Werner because of the trainer's lack of hygiene. Apparently, he made a mess in his pants and didn't do anything about it for three days. I feel sorry for the image that may cast on Werner if this man has any customer contact.

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Matthew

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[quote="Burky"]Okay, everyone seems to end up with a truck that needs cleaning when they pick it up. The first one that I got from my company, the guy before me had left it pretty nasty inside. Well National Freight assigned a truck to my husband that was nasty inside and the mattress in sad shape. When he left the company he cleaned the inside of the truck but didn't replace the mattress. National Freight withheld his escrow stating the truck was returned uncleaned and they blamed the mattress on him. He didn't have pictures to back him up so we lost $340.00. We learned a lesson that day. And now when he gets a new truck we take pictures and insist someone from the truck garage goes through the truck with hubby.