GRRRRRRRR! werner

Get used to it. That's the trucking business. Wait until they really start jerking him around.

You ain't seen nothin' yet.

 

I feel for you, but think of it as working on commission. You don't get paid if you aren't moving product. Sometimes drivers sit for a week at a time and this is not a "get rich" business. It's a lifestyle and if he doesn't have someone at home that can support him emotionally he isn't going to make it. Trucking is a stressful job and if you don't have the support from family then ya might as well hang it up. Just my two cents worth.

 

Hi there,more info look under this company DAC report,This is an botom feeder,whats an botom feeder,they hire newbie,s ,and kept turning them over,there turn over rate is over 100%,dont believe me,check the site a little more about Werner .

 

One reason he might be sitting so long is that freight out of laredo is scarce. When I worked for Werner i sat in Laredo for 5 days...because there was no freight and 75 other drivers were at the terminal at the same time I was.

By the way, is he looking for a trainer that does not smoke? If so, he may be waiting a long time. If he can suffer with a trainer who smokes, that might speed up his leaving Dallas.

 

It is? Now someone tells me! I'll stop going to Laredo now! I never knew that the freight I pulled out of there was a scarce commodity. BTW, I don't driver for Weener. I guess that is why I can find scarce freight!

 

Maybe he requested a non smoking trainer?

 

tell him to tell is trainer dispatch that if they do not want to put him with a trainer to just send him home and let him know when they get a trainer for him my ex boyfriend worked for them and it seemed to work with a lot of trainees they got assigned a trainer that day but look on the bright side he is bring in 300 a week for just sitting around it does not matter where he is if he is with a trainer or not or the truck he is in during trianing he is still getting a 300 hundred dollar check unlike the drivers that is there waiting on there trucks in the shop also tell him that if his trainer when he gets one does not want to pull into the yard and wants him to walk over to the pilot not to do it because that driver probliy know that his truck has something wrong with it and does nto want to get red tagged that is the only time a driver does nto want to go in the yard and the people that he has seen come and go are most likly expericed truckers

 

When I worked for werner i had to wait almost 2 weeks. They told me that I had to wait for a female trainer because I im a female even though I said I didnt request a female I really didnt care as long as they didnt smoke but they said they had to get me a female but I was still paid the $300 a week and then I finally got a trainer and surprise surprise it was a male. He was ######### to say the least but he shopuld keep calling his student dispatcher .