2018 Werner Dollar General Account

They will train you on backing just enough to pass the backing skills test. Then they will send you out with a trainer where you may or may not receive additional backing instruction.

Mostly its going to be on you though I think. I hear that account is very much sink or swim.

 

I made 50K my first year at Swift and my motto was My hand don't fit no freight!

See if you can get on a Swift Walmart account. You'll get plenty of home time. You'll get paid decent for a company driver and you won't get treated like a beast of burden.

 

Look into 3pl companys that run the logistics for other private companies. I work 4 days aweek around 45 hours and gross on average 1100 weekly. I run ltl office furniture out of Charlotte too the atl metro area. Average 10 stopa a day and 2 over nights. Walked into this 18 months ago when i was layed off.

 

Drive plus labor plus risky backing nah. These jack off trucking companies gave in to the shippers from 35 feet to 45 to 48 to 53 and it took the Feds to stop them from going to 60 while the rates stayed the same or dropped. If I can’t logically get a trailer in and out without a hassle or risk I’d never do it . Did it too many times with all the risk and no reward . If you can’t design a proper entrance and egress you don’t deserve door to door delivery . Deliver it all to warehouses and hire a cartage company with bobtail trucks to deliver the final mile

 

Saw a Werner dollar account driver back into a tractor at a Pilot in upstate NY. He said that was his third accident THAT DAY. Run! Run for your life! Do not throw your career away for the promise(lie btw) of hometime and 100k. It’s BS. My company pays very very well and I run harder than most drivers. Even I will not hit the top pay of 104k this year. I’ll be at 90k. Would a brand new driver be able to do that at a company that pays less money, barely knowing how to drive? Hell no. Go visit a Dollar store and think about maneuvering a 53 foot trailer with an extra 10-12 feet of truck and catwalk attached to it in one of those parking lots. I’m a really good driver pulling 48’ flats and I doubt I could do it in some of those places. Not worth risking my career over it. And I know how to back a trailer pretty #### well.

 

I’ve just been hired for this account. Recruiter told me $100 a day for orientation, $850 a week training, and .48 com and $55 a trailer unload. Could you please tell me if this is true or not? Thanks, man.

 

Hope you can do this.

 

That s not bad at all, add cars and try to blindside beside a DG truck that's unloading, and with people coming in and leaving at the same time

 

I’ve done Dollar Tree for 11 months. I know all about the backing aspect of it. I’m just trying to get someone to verify the pay at Werner. Do you guys know anything about that?