My experience with Werner, The Big Blue Screw

Discussion in 'Report A BAD Trucking Company Here' started by Kash6972, Jun 27, 2012.

What do you think of Werner?

Poll closed Aug 8, 2012.
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    Good company to start working for.

    8.3%
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    Ok company to start working for.

    16.7%
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    So so company to start working for.

    25.0%
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    Should of trained elsewhere.

    16.7%
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    Werner nearly screwed up my career as a truck driver.

    11.1%
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    Go there if you dont want to be a trucker!

    44.4%
  1. CA_Medicine_Woman

    CA_Medicine_Woman Light Load Member

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    Companies today only give hiring preference to veterans that have been recently discharged and who also qualify for the tax credit an employer gets for hiring them. All other veterans are on their own. As for trucking companies preferring to hire veterans, they do that because most veterans are accustomed to long hours at work while away from their families for a prolonged period of time, for little pay, and with hardly a word of thanks for their hard work. Trust me, I'm a veteran, and I talk with a whole lot of them down at the VA sometimes, and they all say the same thing about what is motivating companies to hire only certain veterans. Most I talk to who are recently discharged tell me that the Army pushes hard for those who will be discharged soon to attend trucking school, sometimes even on base, and the training companies have recruiters trolling hard for those soon to be discharged tax breaks.

    We're not better than the citizens we protected, we're just better trained.
     
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  3. CA_Medicine_Woman

    CA_Medicine_Woman Light Load Member

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    It's pretty obvious by what Kash said that he was writing AFTER THE FACT, having come down with bronchitis and having to be taken to the hospital via ambulance, which would make posting to any web site with an iPhone fairly impossible. That happened with the second of three trainers he had (was waiting on a 4th from what I read). BTW, bronchitis is fairly serious (get it enough the medically disqualify you).

    And, having gone through basic in 1979, I can assure you that training as a trucker is nothing like that, not even remotely close (having been through both, and having been both a drill instructor and a driver trainer).

    If you read further into what was originally written, you would also know that the OP is not exactly at fault here. First trainer was fired as a trainer, for using trainees as nothing but log books. Second one kicked the OP off the rig for daring to come down sick with a serious illness, and had to be ordered to return to make sure the OP was okay. Third trainer insisted that his trainees (read no industry experience whatsoever) be required to drive several hundred miles all night, every night, likely because he couldn't do that if he tried.

    Yes, the OP will have to learn how to do that, but it is just plain stupid, not to mention dangerous and potentially fatal to one or more persons, to put someone with no experience behind the wheel of a big rig and make them drive all night, every night, while the trainer is sound asleep in the bunk dreaming of how he or she will spend all that money that trainee is making for them. Anyone who has ever been a trainer knows that, and my own medical training and experience as an EMS instructor confirms it. The OP did the right thing in stopping when they became to fatigued to go on, rather than fall asleep behind the wheel and wake up in a ditch, in a hospital, or under arrest because they just plowed into and killed a family of four.

    The trainee made the right decision to stop. Rather than throw a childish hissy making unrealistic demands with the company about wanting a trainee well experienced in night driving, that trainer should have climbed into the passenger seat, buckled up, and worked to increase the trainees endurance while discussing ways to recognize and deal with fatigue.

    But, I guess in today's trucking industry, using ones brain and the common sense God gave them is a real career ender, eh?

    Sorry, but it's pretty clear that you barely read the original post, and just decided to slam the kid for giggles, just because he is new to trucking. We were all new once.

    Matthew 7:1-2
     
  4. inbdusfor20yrs

    inbdusfor20yrs Light Load Member

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    I agree 100%.. We are not better than anyone else, but we are used to the BS and we can handle it better then most..

     
  5. devildawg89

    devildawg89 Light Load Member


    I have talk to a Roehl driver, and his trips were fairly short, and what I mean about being short he would only get like 250 mile trips (this came from the Roehl driver himself pulling a flat bed). Talk to him in Pennsylvania on I-78. He said, "I am going to drive locally, and get off of the road".
     
  6. Kash6972

    Kash6972 Light Load Member

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    CA Medicine Women,

    Nice reply and I did get another job while still employed with Werner. I'm here waiting on the terminal bus now. I decided to go with Roehl on their flatbed division. That's what I really wanted to do in the trucking industry to begin with. What do you do now if you don't mind me askin? Thanks for the advice.
     
  7. RizenPhoenix

    RizenPhoenix Road Train Member

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    You are in for a rude awakening, make sure to carry lots of rear end grease when you get your first job.
     
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  8. aussiejosh

    aussiejosh Road Train Member

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    Wow what a life mate i'm glad i went with LW Miller out of Logan Ut my training run only lasted 10 days and then i was on my own which really if you already know how to drive a truck is the best way of learning alot of these companies and there training policies are designed by people who don't even know how to drive a truck let alone know how to train any wonder all you newbees are getting shafted.
     
  9. ccorley78

    ccorley78 Light Load Member

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    :flower:CA_Medicine_woman...you are my hero :smt023

    I especially loved your reference to Matthew 7:1-2.
     
  10. BigRedDog431

    BigRedDog431 Bobtail Member

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    Kash6972 - Just up the road from you in Beulah, FL across the line from Seminole, AL. Hope things go better for you at Roehl. I'm trying to get a seat somewhere but not having much luck without cdl school. Had my cdl since 2008 but no otr as I used it while working for FEMA.
     
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  11. Elendil

    Elendil Heavy Load Member

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    Enroll in a refresher course.
     
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