Werner

My girlfriend went thru Werner's 300 Hour OTR training program. She started in Mid December and had to go thru 4 trainers and TONS of drama before she FINALLY soloed out in MID MARCH!!! First trainer had bad road rage... Not a huge deal, but not good for a new driver... 2nd trainer had a 5 gal. bucket that she would crap and pee in and not empty till she used it 4 or 5 times... 3rd Trainer was completely psycho and dangerous to be around... Plus never gave my girl the opportunity to drive her full 11 hours... 4th trainer FINALLY had a head on his shoulders and was able to complete and test her out... But after that happened, Werner told her she's going home on a bus because they "shut down" their otr program in Michigan... That was March 16th. She's still employed but obviously isn't receiving any pay... Employee, BEWARE!!! Werner is turning out to be worse that Swift or JB Hunt...

 

Well, she's solo now, and has her truck, but only gets around 1200 mi. on average, a week. We know the economy sucks so she isn't complaining too much. I told her refrigerated is probably better miles so she might suffer it out her till she has a year and then go to knight refrigerated. I used to drive for them . They had the best trucks and miles I ever deallt with. Home time was the only issue...