Werner: My experience (in progress)

well ya gotta start some place ! keep your head up remember to GOAL, an get all the training you can. you can always move on. It is what you make of it, an I think yer doin just fine !

 

I think someone needs a nap.

 

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." - W. Clement Stone
Having a positive attitude makes everything easier and keeps you happier. Now I don't know if W. Clement Stone ever worked for Werner Enterprises or if he was even in the transportation industry, but he did do extremely well for himself through exuding a positive mental attitude.
Nowhere in this thread have I read, or been given the impression, that the O.P. has any delusions about what they've gotten themeselves into. I have, however, gotten the impression that they posses the determination & the will to succeed. With determination, a willingness to succeed & a positive attitude you can accomplish anything.

 

Jesus Christ is this true? Why would anyone do this? I teamed when I first started and I was splitting 45 cpm at Conway.

Now that I went LTL I almost (by a butt hair) landed a bid on a team run with guaranteed 5600 miles at .56 cpm mon-fri. Got outbidded by someone with more seniority.

This bottom feeder peanut-paying team-train jobs are ridiculous... and people actually defend this! Then we wonder why the industry is the way it is...

 

Yep. Sad, isn't it? I started fresh outta school at 34cpm, now I'm at 41 after a year and a half... there are better options out there, just have to do some research. The idea that you *have* to start off working for peanuts is a 100% myth perpetrated by people who don't know any better and/or recruiters who don't want you to know any better.

Edit:// and those rates are solo, not team. I don't have to get used to sleeping while the truck is moving, nor dealing with sharing a closet on wheels with someone i don't know.

 

You talk to your trainer like you did this member,hes going dump you off at the next trkstop and leave you there.

 

Werner has you brainwashed.One day you'll wake up and when you do,believe me its going to be a rude awakening.

 

By some of the replies, this point was missed. In my opinion, nothing wrong with starting out at $0.34 if you get the miles. If you add in the bonus, that's another $.03 a mile for the first year, so $0.37. 2200 miles a week each or 4400 miles run a week by the team, that's $42k for the greenhorn. 2500 miles a week each, that's $48k.

 

You have it wrong it should work the way you say but it doesn't they take the 3 CPM away then if you a good boy/girl you may get it back at end of month. ill give you a couple examples one team the other solo.

team is 34 CPM ok now divide that by 2 as there are 2 drivers so now each driver makes 17 CPM now subtract the .03 CPM that is suppose to be bonus and 1 CPM for per deim that leave 13 CPM per driver.

now....

solo if one comes out of training will make about .26 CPM now subtract the 3 CPM for bonus and the 1 CPM for per deim that leaves you 22 CPM.

In other words you pay them to work.

Now take this in consideration when I first started driving and went through training and this is about 13 years ago I started out at .30 CPM a far cry now over 1m miles later and a few years later you would think drivers would start out making more not less.