Mike's Book Club: The Legend of Werner Enterprises 1956-2002

I agree, Werner claiming to be the second largest refer company in 1992 sounds a bit fishy to me as well.



I remember Werner running flatbeds heavily throughout the Southwest US in the 90's, I loaded with them at the many wall board plants in that region. One time I recall being the only non Werner truck loading at the old James Hardie wallboard plant in Las Vegas . Also I recall seeing lots of Werner flatbeds at a plastic pipe company in Texas who's name escapes me at the moment.
The picture of the Werner truck above pulling a load of wallboard brings back old memories.

 

You keep asking, I keep saying yes.

Write on!

 

They could have used that truck in "The Road Warrior" movie.

 

@Mike2633

If you are really going to do that maybe you will want to think about publishing it, either as a book or a serial book in a trucking trade magazine.

The level of detail you have given us from reading other books is pretty amazing (at least for me, a newbie trucker), but knowing the time and effort you are going to go through to do a thorough job for TNT almost demands that you approach it with the thought of protecting your IP, intellectual property.

If you just want to report stuff about TNT on a casual basis as a hobby then by all means do. But if you start getting into the weeds then you might want to chart a more diligent course.

And then after you write and publish the book maybe @Mike_77 or I can write a book review of your book. Choosing this route would put a dent into the growth of your model city though.

Thanks for listening

 

Werner wasn't even close to being the 2nd largest reefer company in the early 90s and they still arnt which is kind of surpriseing considering the 3 largest meat packers are in werners backyard ....I hit all the pack plants in Nebraska , Iowa and Kansas and Werner trailers there are almost a rarity .

 

Cl might learn to like em a little more after he shells out 90 mil. Lol