Don't work for werner

DO NOT WORK FOR WERNER!

Slave labor. I'm moving to Libya to get a factory job where I will be treated more fairly. Here's my experience after 10 months OTR:

Werner Promised.... Werner Provided

• $700-800 per week.... Lowest $215/Highest $578
• 3000 miles per week.... Lowest 1100/Highest (once) 2800
• Eleven Western States.... All 48
• Home Every 10-12 days.... 3-4 weeks out ALWAYS LATE
• $500 Bonus for training.... Had to fight payroll 6weeks for pay
• 'GREAT' insurance.... High deduct & co-pay/low coverage
• .24 per mile.....21 per mile
• .32/mile under 500 mile trip.... Still #.21 if TOTAL trip over 500
• "long haul".... Minimal:mostly short trips #.21/mile
• Return of $300 'bond' as truck deposit....90 days later I got 50% even with perfectly clean/undamaged truck

Just my experience, and from what I heard at truck stops..NOT UNCOMMON. Werner gets $10,000 from the Feds for each new hiree as incentive. Werner's business model is to use-up its drivers (2000 per month go thru orientation yet they only maintain 7,500 in fleet--do the math) to continue earning Gov't money while getting cheap labor in the interim.

Can't wait to meet my new boss. Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi

 

Day one of orientation is where all the 'paperwork' is completed to guarantee quick payment from Sam. They used to fire drivers for just about anything until they were exposed...so now they facilitate more hirees by 'driving' the turnover rate. No matter how long one is employed, the check is cut once werner shows proof of their new customer...er uh...employee I mean. The only positive is that I got enough experience to drive local now for $23 hour. It only takes 25 hours to earn what required 75 hours with Werner.

 

9 terminals TIMES 3 groups per week TIMES an average of 15 hirees per group TIMES 4.25 weeks per month EQUALS 1822 new hirees.

Like I said, DO THE MATH

 

I think the mayonnaise is clogging your thought process dude.

You MIGHT be able to read since you've posted a reply, but you seem to have an issue with retention...and math. I know reading must be really difficult for you so I'll summarize again for you:

I worked there for 10 months.
90-95% of Werner hirees quit within 6-10 months.
I go tired of getting lied to, ripped off, and waiting for loads that rarely went further than one state away.

At $10,000 per driver as incentive profit based on YOUR 20,000 drivers brings a gross of 200,000,000---that's two hundred million since that might be too many zeroes for you...(and assuming it costs $60 per head...which it does not because they have corporate deals with cheap motels and ALWAYS double-up rooms)...but using your 20,000 drivers costing 4.8 milion, it seems to be a very hefty profit doesn't it?