Werner, do they give road tests when hiring?

Seems anymore as long as u have a CDL you're hired providing the insurance company accepts you.So Werner like every other company takes what they can get because many drivers these days get disqualified.Alot with what you see starts with the training and anymore companies don't care,they just use students for team loads and subsidy.As long as FMCSA won't do anything you're going to see a lot more drivers like this lady.

 

Well guys ... I'm glad to see some of you are finally waking up to the fact .... It's not about safety at all, it's about $.... corporate America has alot of influence on the FMCSA.... let's just ask a couple simple questions ....who has the most to gain from frieght deregulation? .... Is there really a shortage of drivers or is it really a shortage of CHEAP uninformed drivers?....do we really think that the trucking industry is going to get safer by keeping deregulation in place?
.... Fact is that before deregulation was implemented, we had safer highways! ... Why you ask, because the price to move frieght was pretty much set in stone that meant higher paid drivers taking their jobs alittle more seriously, that meant that there was no need to drive illegally out of hrs or having trucking companies cutting corners on equipment maintenance and now let's ask one more question.... As long as we keep deregulation in place, can we really expect these corporations to come to the carpet with us? ..... I don't think so
... So make sure you buckle up drivers cause more than likely your going to be passing 40 tons of equipment at 60mph at 4:00am with a sleepy terrified, underpaid, rookie driver trying to keep his new driving career on the road on a two lane Highway in the boonies somewhere in corporate America.... It's only going to get more dangerous for everyone on the road, unless we stand up and say "enough is enough" ... We don't want to play labamba with our lives and careers anymore!
..... "Regulate the freight once again"

 

Some people are un-teachable. Some trainers don't realize that it is their jobs to weed out the non-hackers too.

 

Any company who wants to make sure you can operate its equipment will test you, and hopefully on a real truck. I've passed "simulator" tests, but it's nothing like the real experience of operating an actual truck. Some of these companies like Werner, CRST, western express obviously either don't do a good job of traiing, or will take even the most brainless of idiots through their training programs.

 

i work for Werner for about a year, actually depending on the trainer you get at werner, they well not make you do a road test if your trainer is qualified to approve you. so to answer you, yes some don't do a final road test by the company.

 

While that maybe true,my ex from training in the past, any trainer who deems a student no capable of this job,the co frowns and passes the student around till they fins a trainer who agrees with co so that driver gets in a truck.

 

Yes. Let's regulate the industry again and have the big carriers get together to set rates in stone. Let's remove all competition from the equation. I can't wait for the days where a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread costs 25 bucks. And you small carriers sorry you can't haul that load cause you don't have the rights to that lane. The guy that tipped the politician most has those rights.

Another industry went through deregulation. it was the air lines. The result, now everyone can afford to fly, instead of only the very wealthy.

 

.... How hard can it when the frieght is paid by the weight and distance? ..... I think it's alot better than racing to the bottom of the barrel

 

You don't know how regulation actually worked do you? Today we get an mc number and have authority to run in all 48 states. At any time, pulling pretty much whatever we want. Back then you applied for the rights to run a specific lane, loading a specific product. And the only way to get such rights was to prove to a govt employee that the market needed your service. Now the other trucking companies that already had such rights, had their own lawyers showing that the market was already being serviced and allowing any more trucks to the mix would be detrimental. Who do you think wins that argument, super mega carrier with an entire team of lawyers, or John Smith trucking running five trucks?

It was a terribly inefficient system. You might have the rights to haul cheese out of Milwaukee to Cleveland, but not the rights to haul cheese to Kansas city. And chances are you came back empty because you didn't have the rights on the lane or product going back to Milwaukee.