Werner compared to C.R. England

Take care and I hope the best for you in your work.

 

It's well known Werner is trying to get out of their own business debt; by illegally coercing their truck drivers into debt. Werner recruits homeless people because our USA population is economically desperate. If a truck driver is homeless and desperate, the driver is dependent on Werner and Werner can pay .20 cents a mile without to much opposition and/or conflict from that driver. If a good union is formed it would benefit the truck drivers; but, I think for everyone's best interests Werner should just be shut down. I opened this forum because the information is obvious. (I didn't have to sneak around in anyone's office with a flash light.) I've listened to some Werner administrators laugh and brag about it. They call it "family money" when they discuss some of the issues I've written in this forum as "organized crime." Well, maybe I was a joke from the very beginning when I was recruited by a CDL-A school for Werner. Okay, maybe somebody got a good laugh from the fact I was an obvious loser that needed a job. Really? I am not the only one that believed Werner was legitimate. Just consider other truck driving companies, don't go with Werner.

 

The only way I managed to survive working for Werner for a few months was by listening to Louis Armstrong while I was driving. It was the only thing that gave me any hope. Other drivers from other trucking companies really felt sorry for me. Other drivers were so respectful to me and never told me I was stupid for working for Werner. The other drivers were sympathetic that I worked for Werner and kindly encouraged me to find employment with a better trucking company. I realized how bad it was because my dispatchers were very outspoken by insisting that I drive when my truck needed confirmed repairs or when I would have been in log violations of my 14, 11 and 10 hour rules. (Of course, I refused to drive in these circumstances which further complicated issues when Werner illegally withheld my pay for completed load deliveries. I appropriately documented any delayed ETA's in Qualcomm.)

 

Ok...so a new driver is supposed to accept .20 cents per mile until they gain some type of seniority and "do their time" with Werner. Is that what you're saying? After a year, does the new driver get .25 cents per mile from Werner? I don't agree, because Werner's customers pay for completed load deliveries regardless of whether or not a new trucker or a trucker with 20 years of experience is driving the freight. The customer doesn't care how much seniority or experience a driver has (as long as the driver is competent, i.e. no accidents, no DOT violations, etc. etc.); the customer just wants their freight. Werner receives income from a customer when a load is delivered and the truckers should receive a percentage of Werner's load income with each delivery that is completed (and it shouldn't matter if the trucker has been on the road for one year or ten years). Werner pays their drivers so minimally that their quarterly labor costs are the lowest than in any comparative industry. Werner gets federal tax breaks because diesel costs are so high. Werner gets paid federal stipends for hiring new drivers with clean MVR's. Organized crime occurs when a business manages to evade obligatory legal requirements, payments and labor rights at the expense of their employees (in this case, it is at the expense of their drivers). Yes, I think a truck driver's union would prevent a lot of problems that driver's contend with from bad trucking companies; but, I think Werner should just be shut down.