Werner Trainer's

I won't say for sure but, this guy sounds like the "same" trainer that I had. But there are some good trainers at Werner.(or so I have been told.) I went threw 3 trainers and could not get a decent trainer so I left WERner. Good luck on your next copany and trainer!!

 

Wow - I thought Werner trainers had to have 6 MONTHS EXPERIENCE. I think that was the case when I was with them, Spring 2007. If it is now only 3 MONTHS EXPERIENCE, you're right. Run don't walk to the nearest bus station.

I was the first trainee for a Lady Trainer. She suffered from night blindness, and so we couldn't really get started right, as a trainer isn't supposed to drive after 11 pm or midnight, I don't remember which. So, since dispatch gave us team assignments, we were LATE-LATE-LATE. She never told the company she couldn't drive at night. The first morning out, I said, I'm going to need a rest-stop or truckstop to go to the bathroom. She said to me, "Just do it behind the truck like everybody else."

I refused, and she grudgingly drove me to a toilet. Things went from bad to worse. She never did a pre-trip, and when her engine warning light went on, she wouldn't even stop to check if anything was wrong. She never knew where her deliveries were, always took the wrong turns, never called ahead.

She had been driving - SOMEHOW - for just under a year, and she told me she almost got out of it before she decided to be a trainer.

Did I mention she had severe bronchitis a couple of weeks before taking me on, and she was coughing all night. I GOT SICK AND HAD TO TAKE A LEAVE OF ABSENCE.

Then, there were the two men - I'll just say one was sly about it, the other was in-your-face. I ended up outside of Chicago, going into a truckstop and begging a security guard one night to come out to the truck with me so I could get my stuff - the "trainer" had already been reported by me for sexual harassment, but the DM, his buddy, decided to TELL HIM, and then to keep me on the truck, until we could deliver the next load in a day or two.

This was after screaming bouts, threats of violence, and I was so upset I fell out of the truck backwards from the passenger side. Thank God I was not hurt, just rolled somehow.

Another "leave of absence". WERNER? Someone should sue them. Unfortunately, my brother isn't a lawyer.

 

Wow,I would be in jail for murder lol..Its sad how screwed up some people are out there..There was an older guy in the class at the truck driving school I went to that was thrilled that he was accepted by werner.Even the instructors told him to forget about them...Not sure if he ever went with them or not...

 

What a country...... No wonder Werner has the reputation it has!

 

Sorry to hear about your bad experience.

True there are trainers industry wide who should not train but there ARE good ones as well. I am a trainer and I waited much longer then 6 months
before doing that. 3 months is just way too soon to be one in my opinion.

I for one NEVER take a trainee fresh and go in the the sleeper as MY LIFE
is too important to me. At least a WEEK before I am confident that I will
wake up not dead. BTW.... The Sexual Harassment issue is one MAIN reason most trainers DO NOT want to take a female student. That can
destroy ones career not to mention good luck trying to get ANY job after
that (guilty untill proven innocent) . I`ve heard of many horror stories
from female trainers about female students which makes you wonder if it
is even worth the risk of taking one not to mention the MAJOR additional
background check just to do so.

Anyway good luck.

 

good luck. there are a few other companies that i've heard will let a bozo w/ a 3 month old cdl train as well.

 

After reading that post twice one has to wonder where the sexual harassment allegations came from?????? he sat close to her???? he looked at her????????? Did I miss something????
I can see why guys don't like to take Female trainees they would be worried if they looked at them for more then ten Seconds they would be reported for sexual harassment.
Yeah the guy did sound filthy pee bottles in the truck ewwwwww.

The first trainer was female and so what she was gay, I'm sure that if the trainee let the trainer know she didn't swing that way the trainer would have been fine and not raped her while she slept lol.

My Significant other says that if he ever decided to become a trainer in a few yrs time he would NOT take a female trainee under any circumstances. Sorry if this upsets anyone but sheesh we all put up with things we don't like at any job we do........I answer 55 emails a day and to me 99% of the questions are stupid, but I still very patiently type a very polite reply.

 

Well "devilmademedoit",u brought up some very important issues and after trining for "THE SMURF'S OF OMAHA",not all trainers were the same. I trained for them for about 10yrs and all of a sudden i had to stop because of an accident a trainee had .I had my jaw broken,my right side cheek bone broken,and my right eye socket broken,when the trainee ran off the rd while he fell asleep at the wheel. TRAINERS are supposed to go thru a program called"TRAIN THE TRAINER",which is a 3 day course teaching the driver how to interact with the new trainee.Also their trucks r supposed to be inspected thoroughly for cleanliness and co-habit friendlyness. Obviously "pigpens" truck didnt get inspected and he sure as "hell" didnt go thru that 3 day course.BECAUSE if the terminal officials had seen the deploreable conditions of that truck and the condition of the driver,they would have said absolutly and resounding "L" no about him even being in the same universe as a trainer. U did the right thing by refusing to go w/ him and then reporting him to right persons. I APPLAUD YOUR BRAVERY WITH WHAT U HAD TO DO! I TRULY HOPE U R SUCCESSFUL IN UR PROFESSIONAL TRUCKDRIVING CAREER.

 

My BF works for Werner and has trained twice in the three years that we've been together. He's had good students and he's had bad students. He hardly sleeps at all when he's training and the last student he had totally ruined him for training. He will ever do it again. I have strict orders to put my foot up his *** if he even considers it. This guy was from Pakistan and spoke horrible English. He stayed on his cell phone speaking to someone in his own language. He didn't listen to my BF when he tried to explain things to him. They came down off a steep mountain grade with the brakes smoking and this idiot wouldn't use the Jake brake. My BF was yelling at him to take his foot off the brake and use the Engine brake. He replied "I can't"!!.... My BF doesn't scare easily but he said he nearly **** himself that day. When he called me I could hear in his voice just how scared he got. He couldn't sleep with this guy driving, so he was exhausted. My BF has a rule that whoever is driving can listen to any kind of music he wants. Well, this guy listened to Pakistani music... He also tended to get lost in the truck stop stores and BF had to go find him twice. My BF also has a rule for trainees..."I will come and get you twice...the third time you don't return to the truck in a timely fashion, you will find that you have no truck to return to". BF finally called the home office and said this guy has to go. He isn't learning anything, refuses to do any backing at all, and refuses to listen to anything I tell him and I can't keep him off the telephone long enough to explain anything to him. So it isn't just trainers...trainees can be a problem too.