Working For Werner

perhaps the dress came off the pig......?????

 

Thanks for posting Bob. I have followed this thread from the beginning and was starting to wonder what's been going on. Ya know, ya start reading a blog like yours and get wrapped up in it almost like a good book really. Glad to hear you're doing well. Keep'er tween the ditches.

 

FYI, i think you're screwing up by never complaining. Werner fleet managers can kick in a little extra money for things, as they see fit. It's usually not much, they are pretty strictly limited and dont do it much, but they can and do do it. It's a "misc ex", and my dispatcher would say "i'll ex you for it!" I have been told by some guys that worked there a lot longer than i did, that back when CL ran the place, they did this a lot more than they do now.

But i'm not saying to just call up and start going off on your dispatcher. Don't piss him off. But like, i ran canada a lot, and they'd stick me with bad runs because others didnt have passports/wouldnt go. id call up and be like, hey man, i aint making any money on these runs... one time he kicked in an extra $100 from one of these calls. it was STILL a check that wasnt worth turning the key for...but....it was worth the call.

If i'm happy i let my dispatcher know, if im not happy i let him know. But i would never take anything out on him.

I like my new company so much more though. It's nice being able to just pop in the dispatch office and talk to my dispatchers face to face, with no glass. Well, my werner dispatcher slid the window open and shook hands with me, but still. Doesn't it tell you something if they feel a need to keep you from just walking in?

There was another time, i accidently went to a card only toll booth at the ambassador bridge, which does not give receipts. I had to use a credit card. I told him and said the tolls about $25 and he gave me a $25 ex, no questions asked.

 

Hey phroziac that hot tub pick looks a lot like the dock at ALD

 

Bob,

Your commitment to the company your driving for is admirable as is your work ethic. I can only base this upon you own words and i am comfortable in doing so as you have not done anything to indicate to me you have any ulterior motives.

However I wish you would have applied the same ethic on the thread you started even after it got tough to do so. I think it could have proven to be something of value. I started reading it due to your committed to seeing things through attitude; however once the posts fell off I found little left of real value to see.

The time between your posts is so great now and the real information so vague I see no reason you would want to continue it. Perhaps you should take the time to ask the mods to lock it

Just my .02

all the best,
Joe

 

Werner doesnt schedule 34 hr resets that Happens when there are NO loads. an calling others losers well that shows you have no respect for no one that does Drive for Werner. an the loads arent from the FM they come from the PLANNERS there.. oh an I did drive for Werner for 7 yrs so I do know what I'm posting here an I do know Alot of the Dispatchers. oh an to sit there an judge others an quote (Jesus said you reap what you sow) shame on you. THATS all from me

 

I agree with you ProZac

 

Well bob please keep writing. I am starting with werner soon and your post are very helpfull.

 

lol. ALD? I was wondering how long before someone commented on it. It's Rhodia in University Park, IL fyi, and it really is a hot tub. The deal is theres a chemical they make that if you get one drop on your skin, it will kill you in 10 minutes, and an ambulance wont get there fast enough to save you. There's a special chemical in that hot tub, so if you get it on you, you just take a dip and it somehow neutralizes the deadly chemical. I don't haul that stuff..

The place is very odd in general. They also have a cooling water pond that they have to keep animals from drinking out of. So there are fake geese swimming in it, and there used to be 3 fake wolves around it....lol. Now therse just half of one....apparently people like to steal fake wolves. WTF?!

thats...not my username. but ok.