My Experiences At Werner Enterprises (As a Student Driver)

I'm flattered to have groupies that read all my posts,like you flatbed. To clarify, 1 week was $76 another was $176, most of was layover,but some of it he said was $20 per day,detention pay . If you want to stalk me on another forum I'm on Lawnsite, a forum for landscapers I use the same handle.


Big joel: residential roofers in North Jersey are mostly Mexican. Big commercial jobs like the Home Depot he is working on go to the union Roofing companies.You have to be a Us citizen to join that Union so not many Mexicans on his crew. What gets me is his first paycheck will be 2.5 times larger than his largest Werner paycheck and that's for 5, 8 hour days,not 11 hour days 6 days a week like Werner.He did enjoy driving but the compensation is laughable for what you put up with.If nothing else he got to see the country most of the 48 states,and he met a lot of good people,not a total loss;an education in the school of hard knocks.

 

Do not FLATTER yourself , just GLANCED at your recent DRIBBLE and recalled a different version of your past postings.

Glad your SON has you to WHINE & CRY for him, gives you something to do.

 

When his son was there he painted a different picture great place to start , decent truck , getting the miles , JR got FIRED then the story changed.

 

See, he reads all my posts contrary to what he says.And he's like my wife, doesn't see the total picture, just focuses on one tree in the forest,he loves to criticize me too, just like Flatbed.

 

Back in 1988 I applied for a dispatch job at Schneider. I spent one day with a 'team member' seeing how the job was done... kind of a chance to let me try out the job before I said yes... I said no.

I had been with another outfit in dispatch years before and also had been an independent broker... when I sat in the chair and heard all the Schneider drivers sob stories about why they were late, why they didn't like their truck, why they needed to be home, how they didn't like to run Ohio... yada yada yada... I figured I was being paid to be a babysitter not a dispatcher.

I can only imagine what it's like on the other end of the phone and QC today having to deal with noobs with no fricken idea of how the world operates... and I'm sure those noobs get a good dose of misfits on the company end, too. These outfits are nothing more than meat grinders... turning out crap and, with any luck, a good driver or two out of every thousand that apply.

What a shame we are in a condition like this in our country...

 

I agree. Truck drivers are the most underpaid people in America.

 

krooser has ir right--everybody should spend a day shadowing a dispatcher
i used to try and spend quite a bit of time in dispatch when in the yard--mainly cause i wanted to do sexually deviant things to a couple of girls who set up the paper work---but regardless the stuff they hear and have to do is funny as hell---some drivers they have to call in the am--or else they wont wake up---others they have to watch like a hawk-- so they make to appts and such---lots getting lost --running out of fuel--just completely stupid stuff

 

Does Werner do hair analysis as part of drug testing?

 

No,it costs too much.If you're worried about stuff like that, driving might not be a good choice for you;one failed drug test and you're history.No other company will want you either it will be on your DAC forever.