Werner worst company ever

Heck, Covenant was going through 100-125 per week, and they're not even a training company.

CRE had 4 classes of 40-50 going EVERY WEEK when I was there, and that was just in the SLC location.

 

I am not commenting about why your son was fired. I am not commenting about if it was right or wrong. Do you have any idea how crazy it sounds to assert that Werner has a strategy to recruit and train someone for 13 weeks only to fire them when they are ready to go out on their own. Every trucking company is looking for professional drivers that can safely operate our trucks. The expensive part about keeping trucks full is recruiting and training. New drivers have "incidents." Little things that bleed you to death. Blown tire, bent rim, knock a door off the hinges, etc. There is a reason why companies refuse to hire students, and those that will pay them a slave wage. Rookie drivers are expensive to employ. My old hands are invaluable. They rarely have stupid problems, and often help fix problems that weren't their fault. I would gladly pay all of my drivers our highest wage if they all had 5 years experience and performed well. I know my business model and Werner's are far from the same, but seriously...suggesting that they only want to emply drivers in their first 12 weeks out of school is insane.

 

cpape, You have first hand costs of getting a new driver to your company.
Please throw out some rough figures so these slow learners fully understand that a company can not afford to just throw away new hires every 12 weeks or so.
There are the travel costs / housing and meal costs/ the time and cost of training them to your companies way of things. example the paperwork and in your case also tie down rules. etc.

 

We do things differently (cheaper) than most...plus we rely a lot on word of mouth for advertising and don't hire company driver that live more than 100 mi away from home. I really have no idea what a company like Werner would spend to recruit and train a driver. I am confident in saying it would be in the thousands of $ per driver. If you spread it over a few years that is cheap. If you spread it over 13 weeks, it is not. The small savings per mile would not touch what it cost them to recruit and train a new driver over 13 weeks. Trucking companies make money when our drivers are rolling down the road safely and delivering loads. Training newbies most certainly does not make trucking companies money.

 

I can't speak for Werner but at my small company, if you are terminated in the first 90 days, they will deduct expenses like hotel, plane ticket etc from your last paycheck. Obviously, they don't recoup everything buy they get what they can.

 

Holy cow.

How many do they intend on keeping as drivers?

 

You are wrong these training companies make more money pushing fresh meat through their system then they do moving freight. First if you get a CDL through the company you are on the hook 4-6G at 18% interest,payable wether or not you complete the program. Then they get tax brakes by suckering drivers into per diem good for them not the drivers.Next I'm not sure how it works but these large Training companies who are connected w/ PDTI get taxpayer supported funds to put trainees through their programs;once they got you they got their $ Use the search button on TR, read through a few of the many threads on this topic;where there's smoke ,there's fire.

 

Then they get tax brakes by suckering drivers into per diem good for them not the drivers. And how does that work because you supposedly claim they FIRE EVERYONE after they train them.


Think you and your kid better find him a new hobbie other than trucking.

I just had to get rid of 1 that sounds a lot like you 2 , but it was his MOMMY that was the problem.

 

awww cmon , now you just have to tell the rest of the storey flatbed

 

He has 2 interviews next week thanks to helpful guys here on TR who PMed me.Would you send out any of your drivers for 14 weeks straight
with no hometime,then after an overnight 10 hour trip,test them the next morning when they roll into the terminal in a new truck that they are unfamiliar with , and expect them to be driving perfectly? If you read my post he passed the test;then after the tester had a meeting with his boss,they changed it to failure. Then they told him they would have him view some videos and pass him. The next day they said no can do ,heres the bus ticket home even though he has no tickets or accidents. Is that how you operate your company?