7months with werner review

So I started my career with werner on November11,2011 being a 2nd generation trucker I took my chances to work with them, god half of this people are wrong about werner like Amish people eating at a Chinese buffet and reading fortune cookies. As a northeast dedicated driver I have dealt with snow, and pretty much all the northeast have in stock for a driver. I was issued the sorriest excuse for a truck a 09 cascadia the interior is hold in most part by duck tape apu loud as a straight man getting a colonoscopy for the first time. But hey its my piece of ####. At first my fm started to check how good I was by the 3rd week he knew what I was capable of so I was running tight schedule runs and some of them required me to do up to 45 minutes of planning to get it at that exact time. My truck has been my down fall but I still managed to get my 50k + miles i wanted, when you are only taking home .21 cpm after taxes. I haven't wait for a load in over 4months since I get them about 1hour before finishing the one I'm working on. It can also get stressing as hell when you haven't finish a load and you are already thinking about the next one. My main complain with werner has been gra-gar their maintenance department and hometime. Gra-gar only fixes stuff after you get in trouble with dot( more on that later on) and have 0 respect for drivers, hometime because I'm a national guard member and they count drill dates as hometime so pretty much social life for me is something of legends. I keep a logs of all the trAIlers I have haul with dot violations one of which I had the bad luck to pull in a rain storm this week.. long story short trailer brakes didn't engage correctly and I drove thru a construction zone 20 miles over the speed limit with my tractor breaks smoking cop pulled me over and gave me a speeding thru a construction area in my csa record and a non points violation because he saw the smoke on my tractor brakes. My fm told me to keep on running until safety calls me because I probably are going to get dismissed from werner so he is going to run me the only way I know hard as a motherf*****. Over the past 10days I have run over 4.5k miles. No reset. At the end of the day I did what I was there for find out what type of driver I'm and I think I'm a darn good driver hard nose driver. Now looking forward to be an owner operator like my father and enjoying days off after 7month of busting my culo. Werner is a great company if you want to work if not just go to swift and drive 5 hours a day. If anybody needs a mentor hit me up and I will do my best to help you to be as a happy werner driver as me

 

Lyle have you ever try to stop a 46k fully loaded trailer on a steep downhill I would say 4% grade in those road conditions???? When you have let me know... Btw no calls from safety yet average miles per load 745 as of today since the incident

 

Everyday i make it thru without having an accident I like to pat myself in the back sir

 

The rule of thumb for regional is 2weeks out 2days home, when it comes to money my checks are 400-700 a week after taxes/deductions, Chicago is pretty much trucker heaven, you got dedicated, home daily, beer account home weekly but a crap load of nighttime driving realistically be home every other weekend. But is up to your fleet manager and you to coordinate. The way me and my fm manager get along I can be home nightly since I live in a high load area