Feds & DOT say's $16.+hr. -$25.+hr.

No, not for me it is not. I am not on the van division, I'm on midwest regional, and it is $40 flat for any load that pays less than $40. PM me for my dispatchers phone number and you can ask him yourself. It's nice because the $20 shag pay is a crock.

I go home every two weeks for 2 days and it really doesnt hurt my pay much at all usually. Cause when i go home i need a 34 hour restart and i wouldve needed one ANYWAY if i stayed on the road. Last week was an exception but it was a great week so it probably didnt hurt much. Got sent to Toronto right before going home, sat for hours and hours waiting for an eastbound load (i live in michigan), they gave me one going to alabama, had to pick up and wait for another truck in Ohio to swap loads with, deliver his load, and then deadhead 150 miles home. And then i had to deadhead back to that area to pick a load up when i got back to work because my pre planned load fell through because of my hood falling off. But that kind of thing happens anywhere.

Maintenance kills me. Every time i need something done it wastes a half a week of pay. My truck is literally falling apart. APU wont run right (just got it fixed by carrier 2 weeks ago..wtf?), hood fell off, "batwing" fell off (previous driver smashed it into a trailer and it took that long to fall off), engine leaks a lot of antifreeze and it doesnt get to the ground, engine hesitates occasionally (possible bad head), shifter and one shift fork is bent, automatic clutch adjuster wont adjust (company refuses to do anything about that)....and it has weird electrical problems caused by freightliner installing a software update. Nice.

I'm ready to quit over the above statement, to be perfectly honest. But I'm waiting for an oppurtunity, because most companies out there just have another name on the door, ya know. Kinda pointless to quit Werner and work for another Werner!

 

Tell me about it. When I first started (on 48 states), there was about a three-day period where all they had me do was run trailers from one side of Kansas City to the other. If there were any paid miles (don't recall), they were less than 10.

That said, those situations are fairly rare. The $20 shag pay is usually cold comfort, but it's better than nothing.

Heh, well as you know, every account and/or situation is different. My account gave me 3 days off for every 11 days on the road, so I'd usually stay out for 20ish days and go home for 4-5 (5 days was the maximum hometime).

Even so, I rarely absolutely needed a reset in the time I was out. It's all about rounding, split breaks when called for, and the occasional call to Logs to retroactively shave time. I'm not going to pretend that they ran me as hard as I could possibly run; sadly, the post offices to which I often delivered gave me unwanted downtime -- load/unload delays, strange bulk mail hours of receipt (which were rarely known ahead of time by dispatch), that sort of thing.

My average load was probably right around 500 miles, though, so I couldn't complain too much. I guess what I was trying to get at is that experiences may differ wildly even within Werner, but to expect to gross $800 on average is a little over-optimistic. Unless you're doing something like Dollar General, in which case you're a masochist.

(I trained on Dollar General.)

Hehe, on the one hand I'm jealous; I never had an APU, and most of my time was spent in the upper midwest. I remember fondly getting chewed out last year for having a high idle percentage in January.

They assigned me to three separate trucks in my almost two years at Werner, all of them over 300k miles when I got them, and all of them from either Bolingbrook, Channahon (Bolingbrook's shop was later moved to the Channahon dropyard), or Allentown -- probably among the worst places to go if you're looking for a newish truck. They were all long-nosed trucks -- first a Kenworth W900, and second and third Peterbuilt 379s.

All of them were superficially beaten up, and they all had their quirks. I'm not gonna say that I never had maintenance problems, cause I did on occasion, but compared to the story you've told I had it easy with those trucks. Just goes to show you can't tell a book by its cover.

I gather you have a Cascadia? I've heard nightmares about those software updates. For awhile, there was even a rumor that Werner screwed up by programming the Cascadias with the same settings that they used on their Centuries, but I know next to nothing about that sort of thing.

Yeah, I'd stick with it, within reason. If you honestly think the continuing maintenance issues are going to get you into an accident, then that's one thing -- but otherwise, in for a penny, in for a pound.

I don't imagine that most of the other options right now are substantially better, and it sounds like you're at least in a routine over at Werner. Just watch your back; don't let them paper your DAC without a fight if/when you do leave.

 

yup yup.

I like my $40 shag pay if i do 3 in a day or they take less than an hour to do. But meh.

I have a cascadia. Dealership did a software update. Now i have 2 codes on the
computer, had a power surge from the alternator a while back and had to get all 4 headlights changed, and theres a thing where the rear dome lights are supposed to shut off if you turn the ignition on...well, only one turns off now. LOL.

I think the maintenance issues are going to get me pneumonia. I also would like to try flatbed so ive been thinking about falcon but i dont know.

 

Is this what the industry's come to? $10.00/hr?!?!?

10 bucks an hour to have a CDL, pilot 80,000 lbs of freight around the country, haul hazardous materials, and live out of a broom closet for weeks on end to boot?!?!?

Are you kidding me? Western Sizzlin is paying 10 bucks an hour.

Anything below .50 cpm is a joke. Holy moly, they paid .35 cpm (the good ones) 15-20 years ago. There is no reasonable excuse for this job to be a lagger in the pay dept. for what's invovled.

Why people are happy to be on a job 24/7, 24/5 or whatever for $10-12/ hr (good company) is beyond me.

 

mmmmmmm........western sizzlin.....we used to have one of those...years ago. now it's a nasty as hell seafood place. the other steak house we had is now a mexican restaurant.

$10 an hour? $800 for 80 hours is NOT $10 an hour if you figure hours over 40 at time + 1/2. if you look at how many hours most drivers put in verses their weekly paycheck, it's more likely to be around $5 an hour! .50 per mile??? HUH??? I've never heard of ANY trucking job that pays .50 per mile since I've been driving. I guess they could pay one dollar a day if that's what people were willing to accept. I've been out of work for over 15 months because I'm not willing to drive for peanuts or sit 3 days waiting on a load. if I'm going to sit and not get paid for it, I'm doing it at home.

 

You're right about that, my friend.

I make .54 cpm with FedEx Freight.

 

Sigh. Some real dumb####s here. #### it. I dont give a #### what any of you think.

 

I get $.50 a mile for my dedicated Canada hazmat loads . No deadhead , no waiting for next load ,paid detention if unloading takes more than 2 hours .

 

I only have 2years experience and just got a local job paying 21 hour.

 

I Hate you! lol, just kidding! Good for you!