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

They start OTR @ .35CPM

 

My departure condolences from my dispatcher.

They're not all garbage.
Just do you job and don't cry about every little thing that inconveniences you.

@Davezilla - sucks about that 26cpm... that recent? I'd have walked at that rate as well.... Not that 35cpm was much better, but at least I got to come home for 4 days a month.

 

You mean to tell me if you are told by a recruiter that you will be hired on at .35cpm (which is the new starting OTR pay at Werner)that a low level manager can cut your pay to .26cpm ? I think I would make a trip to Omaha.

 

Something tells me Mr Davezilla doesn't exactly know what he is talking about. Perhaps the difference in cpm is paid in per diem. I make 47 cpm but gross income shows 39, the other 8 is paid per diem. One thing I know for sure is he definitely likes to complain and seems to lack ability to take responsibility for own shortfalls, which seems to be a rampant problem in this industry. Everything is due to a dumb dispatcher, crappy company management, all the other drivers can't drive, etc...

 

I thought there was more to it . The Per Diem makes sense. I find it hard to believe any Lowe level mgr.van cut your pay all of a sudden.

 

Current Werner pay for a rookie now equals 0.26/mile +per diem? Am I reading thus correctly?

For the love of all that we hold Holy, that's insane! Werner was paying 0.26/mile when I wotked for them over 10 years ago! Heck, I was in the good stuff with them pulling a dedicated account for 0.30/mile WITHOUT per diem!

So I can start at between 0.35 and 0.40/mile almost anywhere else, or drive for the Big Blue Screw for 0.26/mile? Boy, oh boy! Where do I sign up?

Idiots. At Werner's home fortress in Omaha, obviously.

 

Out of curiosity I called to find out. They start at .35cpm and there is an option to take a .12cpm per diem. So if you opt for the per diem .23 is taxable and .12 is non taxable.

 

Thanks. Thought so.

I left two months ago. Wasn't 'making mad bank' but I wasn't getting totally reamed either.

.26cpm........... The next myth to circle the lunch counter while everyone pretends to watch the football game as that one ###-hole just keeps flapping his gums.... as relentless as diarrhea after a hard nights drinking without any solid food beforehand.