Am I making a mistake leaving Werner?

Sounds like a sweet gig and I honestly hope it works out for you. I love driving truck because it fits my personality perfectly. I've never had a job that I loved so much, despite some of the miseries that have come along with the job.

I trained at Werner, I stayed there for over a year. So, I speak from experience. I had two trainers, the first one lasted a week ,the second one completed my training. I hated it, on all levels. Spending time in a truck with another person was just too much stress. I could never sleep while the truck was moving.

Pan forward to me having my own truck. It was much better, but sleep was not guaranteed even then. It's hard to really explain how you are sleep deprived in OTR trucking...but one thing I would ask all prospective truck drivers...can you sleep on demand? The HOS laws are hard coded. They don't care if you slept all night, showed up to a shipper that took all day to load you with scheduled delivery for the next morning. You get me? I've had more 24 periods without sleep than ever in my life when I started trucking. Of course, some would say, why don't you live 4 the entire loading process. You'd be shoved out the door faster than you can blink.

I've always said that truck driving success is dependent on a person being able to operate efficiently on little sleep...kind of like a Navy seal without the hard core military stuff.

 

You were there how long?


My buddy in Houston absolutely loves werner. He ran for them back in the day. Hell, when he got of the road after his wife passed they made him saftey. Before that he was an on road saftey manager. Hrs trucked for alot of companies owned his own trucks (his pride and joy was a frieghtshaker with one of those giant sleepers that is basically a rolling apartment) he called southern thunder. He pulled most every kind of trailer made. He heavy hual.

I think I'll (and most people) will trust his opinion and the others who do like Werner over your 3 day stay.


Many stop flaping your gums and get some idea what your doing. You had a bad experiance at a company? HEY EVERYONE HERE, RAISE YOU HAND IF YOU HAD A BAD EXPERIANCE AT A COMPANY

I bet most people will raise there hand me included.

Trucking has its ########. Every job on earth does. Every company has its own ######## to pile on top of the ever growing pile.

No matter who you are, you got your own ######## to add to that pile.

Only way your make I anywhere is to find where YOUR ######## the INDUSTRYS ######## and the COMPANIES ######## can all coexist peacfully. I hated swift. Some people love it. My ######## wasent aligned to theirs.

To me that sounds like they will run you on recap. Gotta keep that truck moving. Make sure you keep that left door closed driver that load needs to move!

Humans adapt or die. Simple as that.



Now please don't look at me like I'm some sort of guru that knows anything. I'll be the first to admit I'm a moron. But wow. Multi page rants about an industry you really just don't know about yet. You will.

 

Oh and for your weekends home, your first day home will be sleep. All sleep.

Then the second your sleep in do the 500 things you need to do and the next morning your be back in a truck.

 

No ####, bub!
Me too!

Lol (@the Mainer in me)

Darwinian. I like it.
I also like that you're humble, Bo. That you don't pretend to know but are venturing lifes path and speaking experience - doing alright most of the time and getting slammed at others - it's a healthy attitude. Keep it up.

Might as well enjoy it all, even the misery..... for it ends quickly and (sometimes) unexpectedly.

 

That's the other crazy thing about trucking. How many jobs are so volatile. Every day simple mistakes can lead to catastrophic accidents that end one's career. Also, let us never forget that our health plays a role in our employability. I've never forgotten that this job is one of the most volatile jobs out there.