Werner Enterprises, Inc. - Omaha, Ne.

Discussion in 'Report A BAD Trucking Company Here' started by lj, Jun 17, 2005.

  1. TurboTrucker

    TurboTrucker Road Train Member

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    It sure is interesting how some of these companies demonstrate their respect to a driver. You're fine and dandy while you're burning up the roads, but the minute you find yourself in need of time off for something as serious as this was, you're dirt under their fingernails.

    This is why I love the company I work for. I had opportunity to speak with two drivers who work where I do, and one relative of a driver who died at home, that I ran into on the road.

    They flew drivers home for their respective family emergencies, sent a team to recover the truck to be taken to the home terminal in one case, sent company representatives to the funerals, and were paid funeral leave, per company policy.

    The wife of the driver who died, still works for the company as a single driver.

    I'm really sorry to hear that they treated you like this. There's truly no excuse for this kind of treatment, and shame on them for it.
     
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  3. Sabine in Mo

    Sabine in Mo Medium Load Member

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    My hubby got hurt on the job, we had to take a rental car home, in which not all of our things fit. The company we worked for reassigned the truck in a couple of days and let the driver who got it clean out the rest.

    Most of our things disappeared. I was planning on getting the rest of our things, but was never given a chance to do so.

    I haven't done so yet, but will file in small claims court soon, hopefully recovering some of the cost involved to us.
     
  4. Willtyat

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    It's reasons like this that you need to keep a list of everything you have in the truck that is your's. It would probably be good to have a photo/video of all you stuff too. I know I do for our home insurance.

    Best of luck to you all.
     
  5. Burky

    Burky Road Train Member

    When my mother passed away 2 1/2 years ago, I had just pulled into the terminal when I got the phone call. All I was told was that I needed to come home right away. I went into the office to drop off my paperwork, and told them that I had some issue at home and would call them if it was going to interfere with the delivery I had on the truck for the next day. FAter getting home and finding out what had happened, I called work, and told them. They had already assumed that it was something bad, and made arrangements for another driver to take care of the load I had. I was told to take off as much time as was needed and to let them know if there was anything they could do.

    Mine didn't happen out on the road, but I have been told by others that they have immediately gotten a driver a ticket home or done whatever was needed for a family emergency. I can say nothing but good about the way this was handled. How any company president can allow his company or his employees to do things any other way is beyond me.
     
  6. pro1driver

    pro1driver Heavy Load Member

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    first, my condolences on the death of your mother. its times like these that we seperate the good from the bad. werner therefore looks bad, to me, and some others here as well, i would presume. i gotta wonder though *playing devil's advocate*, if werner thought you were playing some type of game, and simply dropping off your rig, because you quit them.

    think about that for at least a brief moment.

    although you are seemingly finished with werner, i'll bet you dollars to donuts, that if you took to them either a copy of the death certificate, or the obituary from the newspaper, you'd not only get your job back, but maybe even a public appology as well. then maybe, that dispatcher would be fired for his/her causing you added grief.

    i have indeed worked for companies *long-haul* that did provide a driver with airplane ticket to get home in such a terrible situation. then the driver had to go to where the truck was either left, or to where ever the truck was taken to, by a *third party individual*.

    again, sorry for your loss, but also, werner could have thought you were playing around and quitting, as they probably seen this all before.

    i am not sticking up for werner, just simply adding an extra thought to your posting, that's all.
     
  7. whispers65233

    whispers65233 Medium Load Member

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    JBH did this to hubby when he was a company driver. His mother passed away. I first want to say even through I do not have any love for this company, when I called his dispatcher to tell him that hubby's mother was in the hospital very ill, he turned him around and got him back in time to be with her until she died and funeral was held.
    However, they slip seated his truck with his belongings in it and when he got back, his personal items were gone. Thank God nothing of value like a CB or TV.
     
  8. TurboTrucker

    TurboTrucker Road Train Member

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    Not that I necessarily disagree with your statement and suggestion, I still find it ludicrous that it would take this kind of action to justify such a claim.

    Think about it. If the company were interested in determining the validity of a death in the family, why not inquire to the name of the funeral home and to send FLOWERS in sympathy. A quick call to that facility would confirm or deny the truth.

    See, what I think about when I read the above is just how sad it has gotten out here. The level of mistrust is out of control. The carriers know they lie, so the drivers are liars too.

    Okay, there's a case to be made on both sides of that issue, because drivers have been known to commit acts of dishonesty as well. It's not all one sided, but who has the power to improve the outlook more?

    Look...I would never expect an employer to be concerned about my particular loss, if and when it occurred, but there are some very simple and discreet ways to verify all of this, without endangering the trust of the employee, or to make one feel like dirt for claiming a death in the family, by having to PROVE it to their rude satisfaction.

    If they care so little and are so thoughtless when it comes to something as tragic as a death in a driver's family, then what gives me any reason to think that in the day to day operations, that I would be treated worth a crap?

    No thanks Werner....my butt will never grace the seat of the most chromed up truck you have on any lot, because of stories like this.
     
  9. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    What's this about? To verify the driver's story? Or as a sympathetic gesture?
     
  10. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    Me neither. Something else that's interesting, how often do you see a Werner truck with straight stacks on it (that haven't been bent)? Many non-drivers, methinks...
     
  11. MACK E-6

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    Interesting. I wonder what the law would have to say about that one, especially if the falsification order came over the qualcom.
     
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