Any Werner flatbed trainers here?

Half of what the werner recruiter talked about when he gave his presentation at my school was the dollar accounts. According to him it is the highest paying account (if that is true it may be because they can't keep anybody if they are mostly going after new drivers), home most weekends and sometimes during the week and he was talking up the fuel bonus, extra pay per stop after the 1st one each day and he wasn't very clear on it but either another bonus each time you unloaded at a store or each time you unloaded an entire trailer. I didn't ask because I wasn't interested and it didn't seem like anybody else was either.

 

Just a new guy speculating but is doing flatbed going to be kinda similar to hauling liquid as far as driving goes? I'm not scared of it, just wondering. Half the reason I chose flatbed straight out of driving school is the extra work over dry van. I spent the last 10 years doing physical work outside year round and all this just sitting in the truck not doing anything physical all day besides cranking the landing gear down and back up twice a day is killing me, lol. I'll be glad when I get to my flatbed specific training after almost 200 more driving hours in dry van.

 

So much for waiting a year. Went out Sept. 10th, finally got finished training on Oct. 28th, took off for home time and got home that night. I seriously didn't expect anything good to happen but I went and talked to the owner of the company I wanted to drive for. I was 99.9% sure he would tell me to come back later but I figured at least my name would be on a piece of paper in the office. We stood around and talked for a little while and I got an application and went home to fill it out. Within 20 minutes of handing in the application I was taking a driving test, as soon as that was over I went for a drug test. I now have a job 3 minutes from my house, off on sunday and half a day saturday and have the ability to make a lot more than I could have at werner and I see my family every night. It is a small 37 truck company that everybody actually likes working at and the boss trusts everybody to do their job without the need to micromanage.