Just some friendly advice

Werner isn't hiring trainees right now. Trust me on this. You will get in the trainer truck, you will finish your hours, and then you will wait till they find one of their now limited trucks to be empty. This can be a long wait.

I love Werner, but I want to save you the down time.

There is defiantly no longer a driver shortage, now its a freight one.

 

Basically they have reduced the trucks on the road, we are hard up for freight right now. They are doing what they can to get miles out, by splitting loads repeatedly to allow several drivers to get 300 miles instead of one to get 1200.

I would guess ball park you are looking at a 2 - 4 week truck wait, basically they are not putting NEW trucks out. And are only recycling trucks when a driver quits, countary to popular belief they don't have thousand a day quitting so what you are basically waiting for is a driver to quit and his truck to get cycled through the reassign. Which you may not wait as long for as most drivers then to bail on the first sign of problems and freight this last 2 weeks was VERY soft, so I imagine alot of people are thinking of running off. Course the freight is soft everywhere that will get them no better off unless they run to another industry but hey, their mistake would be your gain in this case.

I would suggest you go head and take the first truck they offer even if its a reclaim that you have to recover. If you really hate it just deal with it until freight goes back up then takes a Leave of Absence (try timing it with a time you wanted to be at home anyway for home time so it won't hurt the pocket book). They will take the truck back and when you return assign you another where you might have better luck. In fact if you get in with you dispatcher good you can take the leave, tell him your come back date, and about what you are looking for in a truck and he can have them set you up for one the same day you are coming back which is helpful.

 

My husband and I are considering becoming trainers and separating from teaming to maximize our earning potential. Slowly I am seeing if we do that we might end up hand picking our trainees from the forums here lol!