Team Werner

i run teams with my wife with trans am...we do really well but we rarely take hometime we are lease ops. wich has its good ad bad points...both of us came straight out of driven school...me first her six months later....i think you have to be employed with them 90 days to get to train her yourself...otherwise she has to go with a female trainer.....check on the age requirement though it may be 23 not sure...www.transamtruck.com.....be patient with her out there,its a lot of power for one woman to handle....thats actualy my wifes quote...

 

I hope werner will work out for you they have really bad communication with drivers so just be aware of that

 

If you're going to make $35K at your job now WHY are you thinking of going with Warner a company that pays low and SCREWES you with that per diem pay? If you clear $30K with them your first year you went backwards from where you are now!

Let your wife get her CDL BUT hire on locally and you'll both be at home! Or then decide to go OTR as a team.

If you do decide to go with Werner ask before you go if you can opt out of that per diem and not some stupid crapola that yes after the first 6 months or year! These theives CHARGE you over 1 cents a mile to "figure" your per diem pay! Yeah right! It's done automatically by the computer so where's the "work" they do to figure this "deal" out?

And because you're young go read all about what this per diem pay will do to you in more than 1 way!
For some reason I can't get the search engine to pull up several threads about per diem . I had to go back and find this one but read a little about a per diem. http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...rom-new-drivers/122631-werner-per-diem-3.html

Just remember that Werner has about 5000 trucks and 7000 drivers. If you figure a whole penny a mile that every drivers drives for that "priveledge to figure the per diem pay" then thats an awful lot of money put back in Mr. Leathers wallet or Werners nort to mention the taxes he "opt out" of paying in this hurt econmeny whrn America needs it until you hear that this POTUS is going to spend $200,000,000 a DAY on a trip to Africa! This makes you wonder if Werner is right and keep that money out of his hands!

 

I worked for werner under their TZ division. Its basically running team but your partner lives far away from where you live. I have heard good things about team werner. I never had problems running unless I was dealing with night or weekend dispatch. So I would run really hard for 5 days then weekend comes I would end up sitting waiting to deliver for 5-7 hours. Then after each load on the weekends I would wait an hour or so before I got another load. I would still be moving but at what seemed like a snails pace in comparison to the weekdays. Just make sure to tell your fm or dispatcher everything that might cause any delay. better to inform them that you might be late way ahead of time and show up on time then to wait till its to late to tell them you will be late. I still run for werner I am now a trainer and an o/o. stay company and save your money. if you want better money don't lease BUY your truck though independent finance lower interest and if you have a falling out with the company you can lease onto another with your truck. but get atleast 1 year otr before making such choices. the money will be better as o/o if you are smart enough to pull it off. alot of people try and alot fail but only the strongest survive. but I wish you luck. and tell wifey to go talk to the unemployment office they paid for alot of peoples schooling at the school I went to called roadmaster. But rollover is correct in saying there are better paying companies out there.

 

My wife and I drove team for Central Ref and made really good money. Husband wife teams are the way to go! I would steer clear of the mega-carriers though! Your chances of success are going to be a lot lower! Most if it has to deal with the dispatchers. They are just responsible for too many drivers and this makes you a number. Not a good situation for success! There are too many other excellent companies out there. A good rule of thumb is to stay away from the companies that are doing a lot of advertising. This means their driver turnover rate is high. Also stay away from companies that your school recommends. The school gets paid to send you to them.

 

200 million a day is a lot of money even fora rich man.

 

He will not ask you to do it. they try to slide it in with all the rest of the orientation paper work. I took it for while I was in training. But opted out upon completion of training. As a team with them I was doing about 4750 a week on avg. I say this was the avg. because some weeks would be 4000 and some 7000 but over all about 5000 was the number I saw more often then not. as team werner you will most likely be making 32 cent per mile. of course this number is divide by 2 and half goes to the wife and the other half goes to her also lol. Werner really isn't that bad of a company other then the pay sucks. but they have kept me moving so I still make good money. I know alot of people make more cents per mile but far less miles so what good is 50 cent a mile if you only get 1000miles verse me and my 32 cents and 7000 miles in a very good week. What I would do is get wifey the experience under her belt. then if you two decide to do this long term find a better company that will take you both on. make that money stack it up and hope she don't get knocked up