If youryou looming at Wenger truck linesthe as a new employee think twice

I know that you are intitled to your opion on Wenger Truck Line. I am a driver there, and they do have issues with the equipment, but they are working hard on fixing those issues....hell they just bought 40 some new trailers and they are in the process of getting 25 trucks....I think 10 to 12 have been delivered. The safety manager at Wenger, does NOT want any driver to run over hours!!!!!!!!!! I've personally heard him tell drivers over and over and over NOT TO RUN ILLEGAL!!!! If you run illegal, that is your choice to do so. I have had issues with my a/c going out, and they have gotten me a hotel room to take my 10 hour break, and got me to the yard to get it fixed. In the trucking industry, if you want to make any money, you have to run your 11 hours of driving out take your 10 and go on. There are sometimes when you have to switch from day driving to night driving....no one can do anything about that! It's the way the freight flows. And Wenger Truck Line has GREAT customers they pull the freight for....JOHN DEERE being top of the list....Hormel Foods, Nestle Purnia Pet Care, Meijer, just to name a few. Wenger is a great company, family based, and DO CARE FOR THEIR DRIVERS!!!

 

if ryle is still the safety director he doesnt care about the drvrs but more about protecting his job

 

I know one of there local drivers about got his but handed to him the other day,about hit a good friend of mine trust me if he would have hit that w-900 that boy would be hurting unless he is one bad mother. Thats as far as I know about them talked to them about 2 years ago but recruiter kind of sounded bored so never called them back lol

 

I worked for them a few years ago and they were good to work for except hard to get home where I lived so I moved on but all in all a good small company to work for.
The directions thing drove me nuts at times but if that is all there is to gripe about it's all good.
As far as your friend about getting his W900 hit--accidents happen and sounds like he needs to learn that.

 

As with any Company wenger has it's good and bad points, as far as ryle being only enterested in the load safty I find that hard to believe as he was my dispacter before he was saftey and if I had a real issue he done all he could to resolve it, the only reason I left was health issues at the time.
As far as Mr. Murray if you had to deal with him it was in your best enterest to have all your ducks in a row, one of the best employers I have had the privlege of working with.
By some I am considderd to be hard to work with I blame this on being for a long line of freighters and truckers, being very picky about the equipment I opporate as well as saftey, I have sceene at wenger things that would have helped, and all to often to many times drivers that were allowed to remain much longer then they should have.
I believe that this is from my beleif that if the company does not make money then I loose my job.
As far as that is conserned I do beleeve that trucks can do better when not restricted on power, and the driver drives a sensable speed, as fuel is one of the biggest exspenses, unfortunately some driver do not know how to maintain a safe speed, or for that matter drive safely.
not having trucks with 13 speeds was a mistake.
keeping up the power band keeps you from burning to much fuel.
the other issue I had was all to often as in the case of trailer 555 when it was new with in 4 weeks a drive had damaged the doors and was not held accountable.
Wenger Trucklines is as I siad bot a good and bad place to work but IT DEPENDS ON YOU!