I am seriously thinking of removing cdl-a thanks drivers mgmt llc aka werner ent

While I do feel sorry for the many people that are purposely mislead and lied to by recruiters and schools that accept payola from them... you are right. I have spend hours and hours these past few weeks searching for, calling, writng a number of smaller companies all over the country... unfortunately... insurance costs keep anyone with less than 2 years OTR experience away from most of those jobs.

 

It's like steering an iceburg with a 14ft flatbottom and a 5 horse motor. You can't change it. You can join some groups like OOIDA. Then you can have the brainstorm like I had years ago. I can get on the internet as well as talking with people in person and tell them how bad it is. Surely with the internet it won't take long to fix this whole mess. And guess what...they won't listen. There are hundreds of threads here just alike. They won't listen if you don't tell them what they want to hear.

As for regulating driver abuse they tried to help that with the hours of service changes. You should have seen the abuse before the hours of service were changed. It takes a long time to change things. More time than most individuals want to/can afford to devote to it. Good Luck in all your future endeavors.

 

I feel bad for this guy, but this proves we have truckdrivers and stearing wheel holders. This guy seems to expect to make a fortune starting out. Lets see if its not my truck and it breaks down. The company will pay for atleast the motel. You can sure tell this guy was a rookie.

 

At least this board is good for a good laugh! Honestly, I like it when someone gets in here and tells the truth! Thank you! It just so happens to be Sunday morning when I am reading this!

 

Hello all,

I did not type this. I know who did and it is not appreciated.

 

Locknloaded's post is right on the money.
Truckin4alivin, you are the one that sounds like the "steering wheel holder".
1. Folks, you don't have to work for free. Trucking is a job, not charity work. If you are not being compensated for your time, you are being taken advantage of.
2. Driver's are humans, not machines. Don't freeze in the winter, or roast in the summer. If you have to idle the truck, do it.
3. The bottom line is, if you can't make a decent living, do something else.
Folks, no one can take advantage of you, unless you let them. As long as these companies can take advantage of people, they will do it. The trucking industry is the bottom of the barrel. It has become a total joke. Why anyone would go out there and work for peanuts baffles me.

 

I had same exp w/wrnr changed careers went to school got hired by wrnr right out of school, I worked for wrnr for 11 mos. I have worked for 2 other in 8 yrs, drivers complain about many companies, usually the same complaints, but I have to say that wrnr is the worst trucking company, certainly the worst organization of any sort which I have been associated with.

 

So many of these "Wheel holders" will just eat it and eat it until they finally leave bitter (and broke). Maybe many are locked in a fleece they cannot leave.

If they would only realize that these companies do not care one bit about them they could break their chains of slavery.

 

Im sorry u had such a bad bad deal with werner. I to had the pleasure of
working for werner for a total of 7 weeks. Never ever again!!!!! U need to
make sure your load is adjusted right. Before u leave the shipper...Did u even scale load or was it pre loaded trl??? I hope u find a better company
to work for. Stay safe!!!!

 

I am a 4 year veteran of Werner...I started out in Oregon (Portland) with them and drove 48 states...in my first year i was injured in NY/NJ (twisted ankle getting on the 3 point stance in unknowingly soft soil)...i drove "floating gears as my shifting foot was the one injured... I did everything legally required in reporting my injury, and the dispatcher had me run a load of dogfood to the Iowa/Nebraska border, I was enroute to home (Oregon) for hometime and to see a Dr...the dispatcher told me they had no loads going westbound and i had to go back to Maryland for a load going west...i called my wife and told her what was going on...she called my school (IITR) and they called Werner...within 5 minutes I was told to bobtail to the terminal, and report to safety...when they saw the condition of my ankle they rushed me to PT (physical therapy) where it was determined i had a hairline fracture of my ankle...end resut...Werner put me on paid leave, and gave me a rental car with all expenses paid to drive from Omaha to Portland oregon (gas/food etc).
After 8 weeks of healing i got clearance from the Dr to return to partial duty where i was at the Portland terminal basically getting paid to sit around and do nothing...after about a few weeks of this i got restless and asked the Dr clear me to go back fulltime....Werner then gave me a Western regional run with abrand new Pete...I did this for about a year, and kept getting shortchanged on runs..ie i would have a run from Portland OR to pearl Missisippi, and would request to make the entire run...they'd always split me out in Utah, usually doing a shag run to Home depot...after being F'd over on this i requested a LTL run from Cheyenne Wyoming...they said i'd have to live in Cheyenne to get it...so i made them promise in recording that if i moved they would put me on it...I requeted my week's vaca and moved to Cheyenne...got the LTL ran it for a year, then they started downsizing by shutting down the Cheyenne yard and making the run stretch from Omaha to Utah as a trianing run, so i moved yet again to Omaha to stay with the company and transferred to the LTL from Omaha to West Branch Iowa...all in all a good run for the last 2 years up til February of this year (2009) where they sat me at home for 8 days straight with the explanation of "no freight"...i queried the other guys on my line how many days they had missed...noone had missed one single day...and i was the senior on the shift...Come to find out a family favor was called in from the top (Greg Werner) whose cousin or something had gotten married and wife was pregnant and he said put him in another drivers slot for more hours...I got picked to be the one to sit out...

Long story short i made about 660-700/week, home every night and on weekends...when this happened (the sitout) Werner was changing their policies of layover pay and vacation pay. Nominally i would get 1/2 of my pay for sitting out (330-350)...my paycheck came and it was $150...I asked why and they ran me around the bushes about policy etc etc..

Noone had bothered to tell me this while i was sitting at home, calling the dispatcher everyday for load availabilty etc.... Due to this i was late on my mortgage...I managed to get on a couple of days later with a small Mom and Pops reefer unti running beef to all the eastern and southern areas...but i could never catch up on the mortgage...so i ended up losing my house, and moving to Georgia recently...I even asked Werner about getting on through ATL Terminal but they act as if i was never there...saying in a 7 months absence i'd have to start all over again...and run OTR...
So much for loyalty and dedication to a company....

Just got my CDL transferred to Ga...thinking of running with Rhoel unless someone knows a LTL or local unit in Northeatern Ga...