Friends don't let friends work for Werner

I think alot of people fail to recognize that fact.
I'm depending on my vehicle (truck when I get it) to not only take me from point A to B Safely and reliably, but, on top of that make me enough money to survive and keep my family afloat.
If I take care of my truck, it'll 9 times out of 10 take care of me.

 

And after they let something go for 2 months until it either gets caught in the safety lane or breaks and have to sit for 2 weeks they will then come on this site and blame Werner!

I am 100% with you guys on this issue. Company drivers should be more caring about the fact that you are entrusted with a 50-100+k truck. I mean you can't get that kind of trust anywhere else with out a #### good credit score and alot of down payment money. The least you can do is take care of it for that reason alone!

On top of that, whether you are O/O or company driver if you ignore something it will come back to bite you. Sometimes it can come back not only to bite you but the company that trusted you as well. Or hurt someone else not even involved. A tire going bare can easily become a blown tire that leads to your death or the death of an innocent motorist because you did not do your job. And if that happens and you do live, you will wish you died when the investigation uncovers what happened (and it WILL uncover it. If they can peice together a plane that is water damaged and in 100000 peices and find out why it crashed its not going to take long to figure out why the truck did.) That failing altenator will strand your butt, how'd you like to be delivering in a very unsavory looking neighborhood at night when the truck won't start again. That front mirror thats real loose, that thing falls off your truck and hits a car and causes an accident thats not going to be good for you. The fact its 2 gallons low on oil, yeah thats going to not turn out good when it eventually seizes up and the company charges your butt.

And it always boggles my mind too, because it is your money maker. Thats like being a post man and using the mail bag with the big hole in it. Or being the pony express guy and you shot your horse. I mean what is a truck driver without a truck? Broke.

You can make your life so much easier but remembering that truck is your bread in butter, it is to you what a canvas and paint was to Picasso. Your bills, your family, your JOB depend on you keeping that thing in as good a shape as you can. Staying ontop of little things is very important. I never ONCE had Werner refuse to repair anything but a mudflap issue. It didn't cost me but a few hours time, as a company driver you don't even HAVE the I just cant afford it excuse. That few hours time will save your alot of issues in the long run.

 

IROC...

You go girl, you couldnt be more right, about 210% right... NO one in their right mind can intelligently argue that post.

 

One time I went into a T/A to get a mud flap for a trailer and put it on. There was a company driver waiting for his truck and I asked him what for and he said both mudflaps were missing and he had been waiting 3 hrs to get them fixed. I sent my repair message over the qualcomm and let them know I could fix it myself, they o.k.ed it and said pay for it and put it in the trippac to be paid back. Went inside, bought the flap, put it on, had grubed some food down and was ready to go all in about 40 mins. I went back in the shop and asked the company driver If he wanted me to put his on and now he was pi#*ed off. Werner pulled his load because he was going to be late for his appt. Then he said Iam not going to work on Werners trucks/trailers. Then he told me mabey if I was an O/O like you I would. I told him the only differnce between me and him was he lost his due to not trying to fix it himself, and I still had a load and was still making money. A freaking mudflap is all he had to fix! But instead he wanted to be a "Truckstop Cowboy",and complain and cry to all the other Cowboys why he lost load over the buffet. He even had the tools to fix it. You new guys need to know,put the effort in and you will do good. Sometimes that means gettin dirty to make your money. The 13 bucks was on my next weeks check. I would have lost my load to if I had waited as long as him. Effort is half the job, this goes for any job out there.

 

Trust? There are people who make a lot less(at least in potential) than truckers, who are 'trusted' with MUCH more than a $50-100K truck.

For example, the young lady that opens(every weekday morning) up a gas/fuel stop up the road from where I live.

Modest esimates:
Store inventory $400,000
On site Gasoline $60,000
On site Diesel $75,000
Video Store $30,000
Pizza/Deli $40,000
Car Wash $250,000
LP Gas $15,000
building/property $3,000,000

Total $3.87 million

So, this young lady 23-26 years old, is trusted with almost $4 million in property/assests and likely makes no more than $8 to $9/hour. The kicker? She is treated very well by her boss, and would NEVER have to worry about being fired and/or stranded somewhere far from home.

Certainly some people bring what they get from the trucking companies on themselves... However, MANY of the trucking industries big players(not excluding Werner) view the equipment($50-100k) as more important than human component(the driver). Time and time again they(the Big Companies) show this through their actions. This is what bothers me.

 

Yeah, as soon as the 'German' team came up with the Sham-Wow concept... getting marketing dynmo Vince to pimp it for them on American TV.

The Chinese came up with an imitation of the 'Amazing" Sham-Wow for half the price.

 

Yea
But just pay shipping and processing and they will double your order LOL

 

LOL!

The last Werner recruiter I saw totally reminded me of Vince from Sham-Wow. We can look at it this way, if the Sham-Wow deal falls through for Vince(due to the MANY imitators).

Vince can ALWAYS get a job as a Werner recruiter... The only skills Vince will need to aquire for the Werner gig would be, the ability to ask stabbing/baseless rhetorical questions, and some high school military recruiter charm.

Vince, "You can Do it, You can Do it... all night long"... a la... Adam Sandler film.

 

The lady at the gas station cannot drive the gas station into a lake, off a bridge, kill an entire bus full of kids, or so forth.

The inventory is tracked, the fuel tanks at gas stations are not easy to 'steal' from, most of the time the clerks do not have access to change the fuel prices (though I've seen the news where one did and was changing it to 1c every week for her family and friends), I am unsure how one can do much more then give themselves a free car wash with the car wash, and so on.

Fact is she is accountable to the boss alot more then a truck driver is, considering we talk to our boss on the phone or via small glorified text messaging machine. They do not see how we are treating their property daily. Its sort of like loaning your car out to someone. You assume a much bigger risk with something mobile.

You'd let your older kids stay home alone for a few hours, but how about letting them free access to your car eh?

 

IROC,
hows the job search going?