Werner compared to C.R. England

Werners taking out all APU's. Theyre putting an idle limit on and your idle will cut out in 10 minutes. They dont want to pay for the one or two gallons of diesel on idle time to heat your truck in winter or A/C in summer and without an APU you dont have no A/C or heat. For real. Driving for Werner and you wont get heat or A/C in your truck when you're stopped. They dont tell new drivers until they give them a truck.

 

Are you serious?
Thats the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
If only people would stop going to work for scumbag companies like this....

 

Why did you chose to do this extensive research on the them and how does it benefit you?

 

You can tell you are a newer driver. Werner, along with many other companies follow the same guidelines. Dispatchers try to move freight, YOU the driver decide how, when, and rather you can get it there on time and safely. If you look at any company thoroughly, they all have the same standard, it is up to the DRIVER to decide what is safe, legal, and what they can do. Werner, nor any other company FORCES you to run illegal. Just because they give you the load, doesn't make YOU the driver do it. You tell me one company that doesn't try to move freight, and I will show you a company that is going to be closing business soon. Who makes the ultimate choice to run the truck? You the driver-point blink.

 

I am a new driver looking for a job. One of the companies that is interested in me is Werner. Threads like this scare the ____ out of me because I am limited to companies that will hire a new driver. It seems Werner has the most negative comments on this website.

 

So are you with Werner and if so why if they're so bad? Back when I was there it was'nt bad otherwise I would'nt have stayed there 3 yrs.I see alot of Werners on the road and not one trk and/or traiiler looks unsafe.Communicationis the key to a happy dispatcher/driver relationship.You feel you don't have the hrs to pick up and/or deliver,you let your DM know immediately so they can find a swap or split the load.You feel your equipment is unsafe to drive well plain and simple,park the dam thing till it gets fixed.Werner would not let you drive unsafe out there if it's against DOT regulations.If you feel its unsafe but the DOT would let it go till you get to a shop then Werner will too.I don't know how Werner can have bad equipment,they have terminals everywhere and 99.9% of the time they red tg everything when you get to a term and have to go thru their safety lane.

 

You're not going to find the perfect company no matter how hard you look.It's all in YOU and how much you wanna succeed as a trk driver.Many don't succeed because things don't go their way.This business has no room for whiners and ppl that can't do the job.If you wanna be a trk driver then be one and throw all the negativeity out the window and be the best driver you can be and you'll go along ways in this industry.

 

That is something they said in my orientation over and over again. It is up to the driver to pre-plan and tell their DM if they can or cannot make it on time and if not then they would either try to change the delivery time or make changes to the trip.