WERNER ENTERPRISES, Omaha, Ne

Good Riddens 2ya Babey Ladie and Blooper Trooper.After the grand finalally and (Dimolished Rollover)all,the termination is no suprise to anyone.Put WEMP on the top of any list you(SuperPooper) you want. Lucious long legged lady,on another thread I noticed you were sizing up Maverick for one of your youngins or whatever.Well one time when my Maverick A/C failed and shop instructed Hotel ,said company does not authorize repair.that lasted one nite.The next day the #### thing was in the shop getting repaired and regardless of who paid.The company ate there cud and problem was solved.You(Baby-Lady) talk about They like some bad guy.With all this(thread) beforementioned said,....You folks are killing me! Im so depressed reading your bogus dissatifaction and grief........U-BET!

 

I have no clue who this guy is talking too--maybe they shoulda taught him some english/grammar while they was tryin to teach him to drive a truck. Not sure if your referring to me but--as i said before--i had no major issues with werner just under 2000 miles a week dont pay my bills. Other than that--i was ok with them.
Do us all a favor and pull out the english book plz so we can comprehend what your saying.

 

No Clue Allright! Good Riddens/Grow a Brain

 

If you are addressing me (Blooper Trooper), first I would suggest you take some english lessons. Whatever message you are trying to convey is totally lost in an epiphany of poor english and poorly conveyed thoughts.

I HATE Werner Enterprises, that's a fact, and I will continue to say it forever. I don't work for them now, in fact, it's been a long, long time since I worked for them. My dissatisfaction with Werner is HARDLY bogus.

The rest of your tribe is unintelligible. I have never been involved in a rollover accident. I don't have any kids going into the trucking industry, they aren't even old enough to drive yet. As far as the ordeal in Werner not wanting to fix their own equipment. Do you think that a logical, sane person would, after an ordeal like that, therefore want to continue with a company that makes such a HUGE issue out of FIXING THEIR OWN ****** equipment? They only ate their "cud" after I - got extremely unhappy on the phone with them. At the time, they were BEGGING for drivers, and I am a d*** good driver, which is why I was getting so many long distance/hot loads.

Werner is all about the big-trucking-company mentality, and they totally SUCK. There is nothing more to be said about them. As for you and your alleged 25 years of trucking, I'll just say that I question that after reading your unintelligible monologue.

 

Oh, and one more thing, I have NEVER been fired from ANY company in my entire adult life.

 

i guess i can input my 2 cents with my experience with weiner.

i went to us truck driver school in detroit, paid 6k for the bull #### schooling and lies they told me. but any ways i went to the school, and graduated in 4 weeks at the end of july, and i immedatly went to werner. and did thier training for 275 hours, they tried to get me to stay out an extra 70 hours for an extra 300 dollars. they said because there were so many students testing out all i would do was wait around for about a week to get my truck. i told them no i want to go to the terminal now so they got me there on a friday, i checked in and started my processing out. the student people there told me i had to wait untill monday to get processed out due to they met their quota of drivers they could process out, so i wait over the weekend which was fine i wanted to take the break anyways i havent been home in 6 weeks due to wanting to get the 500$ bonus, so i waited untill monday and signed in at their terminal where the people there look at us drivers as an inconvience more than anything. but anyways i waited about 8 hours untill they called me in to process out to a qualified driver status, by then it was too late to get my tractor assigned to me so i had to wait untill tuesday. i get there tuesday first thing and sign in to see the dept to get my truck, i wait about 5 hours untill noon, and i get called in the back. and they assign me my truck, which is a nice black kenwood t600 with 94,000 miles which was miraculus because i know fresh out of school newbs dont get a decent truck so i wasnt complaining, i had nothing wrong with the truck so i was able to call my dispatcher and get a load that night.

i was also kinda lucky that i was also able to get on the dedicated kraft account right out of training due to i trained on that account. i was doing pretty good i was making .32cpm and home every 2 weeks right out of training. the first few weeks i was getting good miles and making some decent money, i was bringing home about 600 a week, then they started giving me less and less miles. to where i was bringing around 350 a week.
i then moved to what they called "the loop" where i was running from wisconsin to the drop yard in wood haven mi, out 6.5 days home 34hours
but i was not making many miles, and they started to give me the wrong information and times to deliver and i would get to the cons and they would say im a day late with the load. i would show them my qualcomm and it showed i was there on time, but the shipper did not care and i would have to sit for about 18+ hours waiting to get unloaded. so i started talking with my buddy who also works for werner and we decied to team up on their team werner account. we ran pretty good miles but we never got paid for them untill about 2 weeks later. we called the payroll dept. but they always told us they didnt receive the trips in from trippak yet, but we got paid on trips we turned in after or at the same time as we turned in ones we did not get paid for. finially after running team werner we decided to become trainers and we went to springfield my buddy got his own truck again and we went thru their "train the trainer class" we did not learn anything there as it was a bs class of just ############ and filling out some paper work. after two days we got assigned our students and had to wait another day for a load out of the terminal. while i was on the road with my student i had put in for my home time of january 17,18,19 and come back on the 20th.

i got the message back stating that i was approved and will be home around that time, the reason i took those days off it was my birthday
and i had a family function to go to. so any ways i was in houston,tx on monday jan. 14 and we were waiting at a food plant to get loaded.(which was supposed to be a preload) we had to wait 10 hours after it was supposed to be loaded. we finially leave late monday night while on the way to our destination which was atlanta to a kraft dist. center my student got a call that his grandmother had just died. (this was on tuesday morning)
we called my dispatch and he called his student manager, he told them he had to be home on friday for the funeral, my dispatcher said that he put in a note to route us to cleveland, (my students home) after we deliver on wednesday in atlanta. i did not mind i was going to be late getting home my self since my student had a death i would get him home, but any ways we get to atlanta and delivered our load , we waited about 6 hours for another load and we get one picking up in atlanta and going to kansas to deliver on friday afternoot. complete oposite direction of where he and myself needs to go.i called my dispatcher and he said to start driving to kansas and he will swap out the load. i get to the ta in tennessee on -i75/40 and i decide to stop there and while waiting to hear about the split, we get a message to swap the load with another truck in jackson,tn which was 6 hours west of where we were at. to deliver in columbus, oh on friday. we start driving to jackson and we get about 2 miles away from the swap and i get a message "the swap has been cancelled just continue on with the load and deliver, i called the night dispatch as my dispatcher has gone home for the day and i tell them that swap was to get my student home for his grandmother funeral and it was to get me closer to home, the said "oh, well we'll have to look for another swap and they said to keep running." i told them im not driving any farther untill they find me a swap. so im waiting at the truckstop and i get something to eat and come back to my truck and they sent us a message saying "sorry there is nothing we can do you will have to call your morning dispatcher and get with him, keep the load moving" i personally did not like that anwser, i personally was already a day late getting home and my student had to be home for his grandmothers funeral the next day, if we delivered the load we would not have left kansas until saturday at least due to unloading time at aldis and waiting for another load and to get my load. so i sent them a message that stated i was taking my truck and the load to the springfield,oh. and they could figure out how to split the load off to get it to kansas on time friday. so i got there friday morning put the truck in the safty lane pulled out parked in front of the building and turned in my key.and now im going to work for a better company.

 

Nice. I figure you're just another number on their computer board, they don't care about your family, birthdays, deaths, whatever. I am so thankful I work for a company who puts the employees and their families FIRST. If something happens, you get what you need. My house burned down in July - I took a week off with their blessing. In fact, not only their blessing, but dozens of other co-workers gave me gift cards, furnitures, household supplies, all kinds of stuff to get on with my life. The company itself ended up giving me a $5,000 grant from a fund they started a little while back to help employees get back on their feet in just such occasions.
I just moved into my new house - they have given me whatever days I need off, whenever I need them. If I need to get off early - sure, go home, get your stuff done. It's the same with everyone else there - you're not told to go to Cape Cod to get to Phoenix, AZ. A little exaggeration, but I remember the days with Werner - I would be routed everywhere BUT home. LONG after I was "supposed" to get home - 3 weeks.
I did the same thing on my final run - took the load, delivered it, went to the yard where I had the truck assigned to me, turned in the keys, load locks and whatever else, said I'm quitting, end of story.
One thing I will add to this mix is that I have talked to a number of drivers who are driving for much smaller companies - that aren't treated like a cow in a herd. They get the miles, and they get home. I just think that when a company is treating you as badly as the story above, get the heck out of that place, if at all possible. I'm not saying all smaller companies are gold, but a lot more of them are than aren't, which I don't think you can say about these behemoth companies.

 

By some accounts, I've been fairly lucky with this outfit. My DMs have been nothing but decent to me, and once out of Springfield, everyone but breakdown, roadservice, whatever you choose to call them. Right now, the POS I was given has been at the Frightshaker dealer since Friday. That's also the day I returned from hometime. This thing has been nothing but problem after problem for me. I'd sent breakdown many messages Friday about what the problem was, either the starter, starter solenoid, or ignition switch. What do they do? They have the shop at the Detroiter come out with a generator and charger to get me going. I told the guy not to bother, the batts were not the trouble this time. Wrote breakdown back, told them again, it's not the batts, here's whats wrong. 1/2 hour later I got a message for me to go to the shop and have them call breakdown. Bear in mind, I'm NOT a message boy! Any way, I did. The guys at the shop told me that if they didn't know what kind of a guy I was, that they wouldn't have called weener. 45 minutes later, or 3/4 of an hour, the dimwit at weener finally talked to them, for about 2 minutes. Then I got on the phone with them. First words out of the flunkies mouth were, "What's your problem this time"? I can handle ignorance at face value only so long. I informed him that if he had bothered to read the #### QualCom messages I'd sent, he'd know what my problem was. Went over with him again what was wrong. Told me to take it to dealer, so I did. So, I've been sitting since last Wednesday morning. Wed and Thur were hometime for me, so I won't whine about that.
While sitting here, not even making the best pay in the industry, weeners words, not mine, it's given me time to look at other companies. At this point I'm a bit gun shy. My problems with this outfit are NOT the people I've daily contact with, just some of the morons at Ohaha, and Springfield in particular. Yep, soon as I find somewhere else where I think I can be comfortable, and the POS runs long enough, there will be another empty truck down at Sprungfield. Yes, the lack of capitals and misspelling IS intentional.

Nine weeks with this place, and the countdown has begun. In my mind that's pretty pathetic it has come to this.

 

posts like the one above make me wonder about drivers. if he has 1 yr already that means werner is at least company #2. Which would lead me to assume the problem isnt the company, regardless of terminal location. but the driver. True to be a trucker you need working equipment. But plenty of werner drivers get it, same with swift and other companies. Maybe you need to fight for a new rig, not a new company. tough it out, things always get better.

 

I started driving in 1984, I went with Werner in 1994. I had plenty of driving time under my belt by then. My FIRST breakdown with Werner was also the last time I drove for them. It was an ordeal of unbelievable proportions. Everything this other driver said was almost identical to what I went through in attempting to get my truck fixed. I did the same thing that driver did - tell them what the problem was.
Instead of trying to get the problem fixed (bad fuel pump), they sent out a "mechanic" who sprayed ether into the air intake and got it running. This was after I had talked to Omaha repair facility (whatever they call the bleeping thing) and told them that I had already replaced the fuel filter and that the truck most probably had a bad pump based on the events that were occuring with it.
Long story short: Trucks don't run forever. I don't care who you are driving for, sooner or later, you are going to experience a problem. When the company you are driving for makes it HELL to get the problem fixed, it's time to find a new company.
At this point, Werner could offer me a brand new truck built to my specs and I would just laugh at them - one of several companies I will never drive for again.