Werner compared to C.R. England

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  1. Sofia

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    I've heard other drivers refer to it as, "being held hostage." (Literally that is what it's like working for Werner.) If I stayed with Werner, I would have been homeless, living out of my truck and dependent on Werner for food and water. I was unassertive until this forum. Werner grossly underestimated who I am.
     
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  3. mikeoklahoma

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    werners got like 600 new trucks sitting at the dallas werner terminal. one of werners sons got new trucks and didnt tell his dad and the werner family cant afford the new trucks. one of werners sons bought 600 new trucks and the family cant afford to pay for them ha ha ha ha ha ha. 600 new trucks just sitting there in the dallas terminal and no ones drives them. they give new drivers old broken down trucks that need repairs and they dont pay nothing for getting repairs done. werners drivers sleeping under bridges in cities everywhere.
     
  4. GAPathfinder

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    This thread definitely sounds like a disgruntled former employee with a conspiracy theory that was conjured up by a single one-sided perception.

    I drove for Werner for 9-months (2010 - 2011), and was never denied repairs. Werner in my experience was a decent company for someone starting out, and do not regret my experience with them. Everyday was not great, but no job is.
     
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  5. Sofia

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    I wonder what Werner is going to do with all those new trucks at their Dallas Terminal. I'm guessing, Werner will eventually force new drivers into leasing them and then pay .09 cents a mile, just like C.R. England does. C.R.E. doesn't tell their new hired drivers (until after orientation and six weeks of training, and when the drivers are ready to get an assigned truck for their first load) that they need to sign a lease for the truck if they want the job....and if they don't sign the lease, the new driver just wasted six weeks of training and they must pay for a bus ticket home.
     
  6. Sofia

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    No conspiracy theory. Corporations have cash flow, debt ratios and capital gains. The transportation and logistics industry depends on truck drivers for monthly investor distributions and corporate income. Truck drivers are the most important vital functionality in transportation and logistics and they are paid slave wages by Werner. Werner's quarterly labor costs are lower than any other industry (likely less than 4% of Werner's gross quarterly income is expended in paying blue collar wages). Normally, a blue collar business (i.e. such as electrical contractors) quarterly employee wages, are about 21% of a corporations gross quarterly income. Werner pays reduced tax rates, refuses necessary truck repair costs and cuts marginal labor expenses by not paying rightful income to their drivers. Truck drivers are grossly underpaid, even if they are paid correctly. Drivers need to be paid for their time. Drivers need a base salary + percentage pay per load. Without drivers, Werner doesn't have investor distributions or corporate income....

    Werner's capital is their trucks. Werner achieves financial capital gains by not paying rightful wages to their drivers. Werner buys trucks based on an amortization schedule. That means Werner pays less every year for equipment fiscal depreciation. The bottom line is Werner makes a lot of money by not appropriately paying rightful wages to their drivers. Drivers should gross nothing less than $ 50,000 per year.....nothing less...not ever. Werner needs to financially compensate their driver's time and availability to move their freight and I don't care if the driver is stopped six months out of a year. If the driver is available, the driver needs to be paid for their time. Without the driver, Werner can't move freight. (Lay-over pay is a joke and unacceptable...) Appropriate annual salaries as a base pay are necessary.
     
  7. Sofia

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    Conspiracy theory ?????

    F****** conspiracy theory ?????

    Werner's solution to driver complacency is putting a popcorn maker in the corner of the terminal next the f****** T.V.
     
  8. Starchdoggy

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    Did you not ever look at the people that were your co workers at Werner when you worked there? The popcorn maker probably settled over half the current driver issues when they put it in. Please feel free to carry on now with your illusions of grandeur.
     
  9. mikeoklahoma

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    werner gets away with this crap because werners dispatchers are bad. werners safety dept. think they don't have no responsibility because they have bad dispatchers who dont care and its a joke. they do this crap to their drivers all the time. most of werners drivers dont talk to no dispatchers ever because they so bad. safety mgr. laughs it off likes it no big deal and their dispatchers are like their kids friends who dont know nothing about trucking. werners no differnt the cre. new drivers need stay away.
     
  10. Sofia

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    A Werner "million miler" proposed marriage in the popcorn maker corner. When this happens, "Just Say No."
     
  11. mikeoklahoma

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    its bad though. no joke. werners taking out APU's and cutting out the idle time. when the idle cuts out you got no power and no a/c and no heat. it's bad. werner dont care if you got no heat or a/c. werner just dont think you should have no a/c or heat and dont want to pay for 2 gallons diesel to idle or no APU.
     
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