Werner dispatchers abusing the writeup system to punish drivers without their knowledge

That's dirty, but somehow expected from a company of that caliber in the trucking industry.

 

There is not a driver alive (Espeically myself) who has not already have a file with a name on it and contains sins and problems written down ranging from failure to leave company yard on time or going into a UA area and so forth. When there is enough booboos added to that file, the DM will fire the driver with cause and use the file against him or her when the Unemployment people gets involved.

Service failures meaning failure to get the load on time by appointment or contract etc is the most common boo boo that goes into a file. It may not fire you today but will be just another stone piled onto other stones in a future firing.

My best defense against these write ups is to pile up a stack of forms needed for everything and go away to a far coast of the USA far from the company building and it's backstabbing staff of teetotaling dispatchers who are looking for things to add to a nasty file against you. Be gone for 6 months to a year at a time. It's really hard for anyone to write stuff down against you unless it can and is proven by satellite service failure etc.

 

Man, driver. That is beyond shady. Sorry, I don't know what else to say, except get into a 'smaller' company where you are a name, and not a number. Like me, and many others.... just wow.

 

Yeah large or mega carriers have become the son n daughter of the devil. Sometimes driving for a noteworthy smaller carrier where a person proves their worth and they indeed value you, not a number but a name and a human being your better off. Have you ever noticed that it's mainly larger carriers that will tell you, just be honest about everything BUT it's okay for them to lie to you whether it be dispatch, supervisor, shop, etc.

 

How do the 'dispatchers' benefit from such practice?

 

They don't.

I once visited St Peter with his Heavenly Gate and learned there are clouds filled with large cars for us to run and a mountain of payroll to run it with.

However I asked St Peter why all those large cars sitting?

He says, we aint got a Dispatcher yet. =)

 

the benefit is when called on the carpet for a performance review dispatcher will whine about his-her driver pool pointing to all the write ups as evidence of a batch of under performing drivers.

 

Anytime I've been written up it came with a mandatory meeting and I had to sign some sort of corrective action form.

With how big Weiner is I seriously doubt they'd miss out on flexing that corporate policy.

 

This is how they let you know. I don't really know if the practice is new... but it's there; sure to be in my safety file.