Werner

Well, I'm not to good at this. I'm just going to give you a break down of my experience with Werner....Werner Cares...


Started my way down to the Allentown, PA Terminal. You know nothing like being hired on by your first company. Did lots and lots of Research and figured I'd put everything I was hearing about Werner to the side and experience it for myself.
Got to the Quality In hotel about 5-10 miles away from the terminal where I met my Room mate. Was a cool guy, actually he ended up being from two towns over from where I live so I was happy. Monday comes and its time for the orientation. Starts out with videos, introductions, and paperwork. Physical. Let's talk about the physical. So I'm waiting in line and I'm called in everything good until I get to my blood pressure. Never had high blood pressure in my life and I get a reading just good enough for a 3 month card, not to mention the "Doctor" or "Nurse" took it one time and that's it. The guy before me was an average looking guy and I heard her say "oh your just nervous. So im assuming his was high, later to find out he got a 2 year card. So back to the story.
After completing orientation and being in Allentown where just about no one wants to work. They all just sit around and collect pay checks for basically nothing We were all told we were getting put in rental cars and we were going to Springfield OH. Was shocked because I guess there wasn't any trainers at the time but whatever were trying to get started so we can get our own rig. Got to OH, luckily my room mate came here with me because half the group was sent to INDY. Took 2 days to get a trainer. The best part of this whole entire experience was actually being with my trainer. He was a laid back guy/owner operator that did all 48 states so it was a great time and he taught me a lot, no bull ####. after being with him for 6 weeks I received the highest scores you could get on your training paper by getting all 3's and we were basically running teams the entire time after my evaluation and curfew were off so I could drive after midnight-6am. Turns out thanksgiving is right around the corner and he's going home for a week. I figured I would go home and be with my family for couple days because being out 6 weeks in a row isn't bad but you want to be home on thanksgiving and not stuck in California at the terminal for a week. So this is when #### started to hit the fan. Called my SDM aka Student driver manager when he basically after beating around the bush told me there is nothing he could do for me because we were in Salt Lake City and all they cared about was getting my trainer home for his home time(I live in MA) Well, I told my SDM basically I dont give a crap about what he says im off this truck for him to sign me off this truck and I'm taking a flight home and will be home for 3 days and to be back in Allentown for my next trainer to finish up my 75 hours that I had left. He didnt like that but he did it so whatever.

After thanksgiving I returned to The worse terminal in the entire company Allentown nothing had changed, and luckily I didn't actually have to go to the terminal. Waited 2 days and my new trainer was there. Another really cool guy, owner op doing a dedicated runway GA to NJ back and forth. Finished my hours got dropped back off where once again I received the highest marks you can get for your training all "3's" Took a day and a half to get my truck Peterbilt 387 Wide Body beautiful truck couple dings and scratches nothing major nice truck with an APU that worked I was excited like it was Christmas in November. Well took a day to get a load to take me to CT where I would be doing a dedicated dollar tree account. Worst experience in my life might I ad. First of all you need a rack on the back for your roll containers. So you have to slide your fifth wheel all the way back so basically if your heavy you're illegal one way or another. Good thing in the north east basically all the scales are closed in the winter so I lucked out there. Then on top of that they're paying 100 bucks to touch every box of freight and unload the trailer by hand which absolutely is TERRIBLE. I could do it but finally I just said F*** this I didn't get my CDL for this Nonsense. Especially when your unloading 250 cases of 3x3 1 gallon jugs of water. Finally got switched out. not to mention before that I made a whopping 5-600 a week. NOT the $1,200 guaranteed by the recruiter and not even close to the 50K a year guaranteed by the recruiter but that's what happens when you get into this industry as a greenhorn....you believe everything you hear. But now I know if its to good to be true...sounds to good its defiantly is!! You get .46 cents a mile that's true. You don't even get close to the 1700 miles a week guaranteed.
After getting off that account I like to drive so I went on the drivers choice 3 weeks out, 3 days home everything east of Omaha, NE. Figured I can drive so ill make up the money in miles. First week 350 bucks take home. second week 275 take home. third week 250 take home. fourth week 200 take home. Kept getting terrible miles, and Werner pays zip code to zip code so a few of my runs I was in Columbus Ohio where I picked up at a drop yard and delivered in the same zip code so I had 0 loaded miles. This all happened to me when I didn't have not one late load. So Now I'm due to Allentown for a physical because my 3 month card is up and I get back and my blood pressure is the highest its ever been and I cant get a medical card so im put on medical leave. Werner doesnt pay for medical leave home time so haven't made any money in the past 3 weeks but being home with my family is a plus so whatever. But the kicker and the biggest problem out of all this is I've now been to TWO doctors and don't have high blood pressure. my two readings from two different doctors have been 136/76 125/80. I'm actually glad im done with them and moving on but I needed to get my experience for a company to take me on. So I figured I'd get my experience in a nut shell and hope if you can get hired on by a different company other then these guys go there.....SERIOUSLY!!! If you dont believe me about the blood pressure i'll post the doctors notes I have from both to prove it!!

 

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The first one is from the nurse at the doctors office. I was all ready to get on Meds and get back to work and just do whatever it took. Then the second reading is from the doctor who took it 8x in a row and it was the same. He said "Cant put you on anything cause you dont have high blood pressure." Come back on a later date in a week or so. I'll get that picture up as well.


Then I go back a week later dont even care if you see my name or birth date, and its 134/76.......

 

That's great that you're making it a Werner. I'm actually glad to hear that. I'm not a biased man, The truck I had was very good, and they always fixed it no questions asked when there was maitneced needed. They are good on safety but that's all I can say they are good at doing...no ########. I did stay at Werner for 5 months before I stopped working there. I was going to stop working there regardless if my blood pressure was high or not which it's not. For one, my truck was locked down once I failed my blood pressure with a "Lock" put on the air knobs and was given to the next man in line. I tried to "Make it work" but for one I'm not going to stay at a company that has 7,000 drivers, especially after all the lying. You are right this industry is nothing but challenges, but don't think for one second that I didn't try to make it work. After receiving 3-4 $200-250 dollar pay checks 4 weeks straight and not to menton the 3-400 dollar ones for the dedicated account I decided that I could probably find a company that I could get into locally and not have the headaches and the pressure of the bank calling me while I'm 1-3k miles away asking when I'm going to be able to make my next payment. I have already been offered 2 jobs since being home and I'm willing to make a decision soon on what I want to do. Maybe I should get in depth more on every little thing that actually happened to me while being at Werner. I'm still on 30 day leave but why should I go back? I already wasted enough time and sacrificed enough time trying to make it "work" at that #### hole. Ever hear of the saying "fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me?" exactly tried two different accounts and both were nothing but lies, and didnt work out at all. I can't sit here and say that if I "Kept Trying" that things would have looked up. I did my best every day to do whatever I could. Running Recap, Never a Late load, Never Complaining, nothing and that is where it got me. Getting my truck "Given away" not even more then 3 hours of waiting for my GF to pick me up. They wouldn't give me the time of day to see my doctor that was 4 days later from my last medical examination. After being talked into Per-Diem even knowing I didnt want it I tried to get off of it this january but "Because I didn't get off of it on the 1st I wouldn't be able to get off of it until next year. That's what I call shady. Never recieving a "Pre-Assigned Load." Having a "Cat-Eye" Camera in the front of my truck looking out the windows monitoring my every move. Last pay check still haven't been paid from columbus, OH to the terminal in Allentown,PA "They haven't received anything on that load yet." Not being reimbursed for the airline ticket up to as much as the bus ticket that would have cost me. Being hung up on and treated like an animal while talking to people in NE and actually laughed at when talking to dispatchers on the phone about the situation that is at hand. Giving them my personal employee number, and social security number and still being told they cant talk to me on the phone because they "Don't know if it's really me." That I need to "Come down to a terminal." Sorry but I'm just tired of the head games that #### holes is all about. Do I really need to mention every little thing that the company has done or given me the run around. some companies work out for other people I guess. Maybe I got lost in the cracks, I don't know. I have a family too, I have a 3 year old son, and I'm not going to stay out and make peanuts while he's asking me when I'm going to be home, or where I'm at. I could go down to burger king and be home every night and make just as much money flipping burgers. My goal was never to stay at a bottom feeder but to only get enough experience where I can get looked at or accepted onto a local company. Don't question my ambition or my desire to make this work for one minute. As a student I was running 3-463 miles a day with my trainer I thought maybe I would get the same treatment with them once I got my Truck but I was very wrong. Maybe I should have "Leased" on after 90 days of solo.....YEA RIGHT. There are plenty of companies and better opportunity out there other than Werner Enterprises and that's all I have to say about that.