Strange how that maybe 1 in 10 w/s drivers I speak with is happy in the seat they have. I have been with them for several months now and it's a day to day fear that before I can attain enough exp. to move on to a real company, I will be CSA2010-ed into nothing more than a garbage hauler. They send you into places that a 53' should not be and they could care less. including residential, because they don't check and or care. The people on these forums that rant and rave about how great a company it is and how much money you will make on the multiple stops are either paid to say or company.
They are nothing more than a driver grinder starter company. If you don't mind calling every one of your stops before you leave out to confirm there REAL location and receiving hours and days they are OPEN you may be able to get the run done in a profitable manner. Otherwise you will find yourself on the side of the road at the address given calling anyway or at a showroom that they do not take the shipment at, to find they have been doing it for years. When you bring this to the companies attention, they shoot you an oh really and a well you'll know next time. It's a simple fix that someone in there load planning should be responsible for. With there turn over rate it's unlikely you will even be there a next time. (they just don't care)
They start you out at .25pm and then you find out from the customer that they charge more than any other carriers. There equipment is garbage. They confirm this themselves when they send you qual-com and tell you that due to the high level of failed dot inspections and violations you should expect a higher level of scrutiny at weigh stations. This is a result of them cutting maintenance way back to deal with the economy.
Responsible plan save money/risk lives. There dispatchers are morons like communicating with a brick. and unless you find the right suck up buttons to push your doomed. There load routing is for the most part retarded. If you like to spend your whole trip on state highways and back roads it's great. Stop lights and 35mph town limits in some towns that they look at you like what's that? and why is it here? (most drivers learn fast that the routing will get you in trouble and go by there gps) If you need a job there's one here but if you have any gray matter and you sign on with w/s you will be gone in 6 months.
If you make it to 6 months (and managed to keep your CSA2010 clean) you will on the brighter side be a well seasoned driver who has piloted a semi through the most challenging city and small town streets you will every have to in the business. You will learn to blind side back off of busy highways and streets into docks that would challenge a straight truck, learn to set up your docking going the wrong way down a one way.
NOTICE: To all Carriers, A former W/S driver of at least 6 month or better should be considered a veteran of close quarters combat of asphalt warfare.
So to the W/S cheerleaders and recruiters who pose as drivers have at it your work is cut out for you. Would be less effort to change the wrongs in the company and get some of the dead weight out from behind the desks and or get them to do what you pay them for. Less time wasted on ineffectual and inaccurate load planning would be a start. a driver going in circles wasting fuel and risking an accident somewhere they shouldn't be or spending his 14hr clock on the phone doing load plannings job is BS.
If you don't start to make some changes your going to get even more people killed. Not doing well with that one either. Pull your head out of your rear, there's more than money involved here. There's people, the ones that make your assets possible.
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Where to start....
Ok first, who are the recruiters on here that arent real drivers???
I only ask because i have met all but 3 of the W/S drivers on here, and the 3 i havent met i have talked to or texted with....
#2 I've been here over a year and only just yesterday had my first inspection and the ONLY thing he could find on a 15 yr old trailer and my 2007 FL was a tiny leak on the trailer airbag that had started leaking sometime within the last 3 hours.....since i had done my pre trip
#3 yea they could use some work on the paper work side of the LTL runs but 5-10 minutes of a drivers time when your assigned the load calling and checking everything yourself and you wont have any problems
#4 they dont require you to follow their route so dont and you wont have any issues
#5 Whats wrong with .25cpm? i started there and Grossed over $45,000 my first year
#6 Even more people killed????? How many people has W/S killed?
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Yet another 6 month wonder that doesnt want to work for his $1000 a week and would rather do drop n hook for werner for $300 a week?
I doubt he'll even be back to reply to any of this so i wont waste much time/effort on this but our turn over isnt high, our CSA score isnt high, our problem area is trailer issues...which if you have been driving 15 years like you claim which since you started at .25cpm we all know your full of Crap, but if you did you'd know trailer issues are part of this industry as most drivers are to lazy to deal with issues and just leave them for other drivers. And if you do your pre-trip properly and fix things you find instead of saying F it and running with it anyway you wont ever have a issue with the DOT.
Anyway sorry you couldnt handle LTL, good luck at Werner
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By telling a "former" upper management dumb### where he could stick his truck and load 2 days before Christmas.
You are aware, ALL W&S terminals are open for deliveries on Christmas day at 7am....aren't you ?????
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That word doesnt even begin to explain it. Sometimes you just wanna drag someone out into the street and beat the sheet out of them.....But then you remember all the pesky little laws in the U.S and all the company policys and you suck it up and get on with your day.....
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