Student wondering about werner...

Werner pimps their detacated accounts like they are best jobs in the world.

I seriously doubt you'll get one as a noob and I'm sure the wait list for them isn't short.

If it were me i'd go with Rohel. They seem like they'd be a good company to start with and maybe even stay with.

 

Depending on the dedicated account, you can get in as a noob. My hubby started on a Werner Walmart Dedicated account.

That being said, if Rohel has the slot open, they may be the better option for you. They have a better reputation than Werner.

 

Hello out there, my first time reading your posts on this site, I am considering going to CDL training school w/RoadMaster where the admissions contact claims recruiters from Covenant, Werner and Stevens look for graduates to start them as OTR drivers at $42k/yr. I currently work in a call center making less than $40k w/not much potential to move up - should I just be happy to keep my job and stay where I am? It doesn't sound very encouraging on the road these days for newer drivers, thanks for your feedback.

 

Steady pay check!!! Thats funny sh/t right there!!! A steady pay check is a rare thing in trucking anywhere, but with a huge company like Werner is almost inpossable to get anything but a bunch of horse sh/t on a steady basis. Werner seams to be the biggest bottom feader company out their. Do a search on this web sight. I dont think their is any thing good said about them in the thousands of treads on hear.

 

If you need a job change dont go trucking!!! 42K a year is a very rare thing for a new bee. I think the only way that could happen is if you are willing to stay out many weeks or even months at a time. Thoes numbers are what recruters use to "SELL" trucking jobs. Recruters are like car sales men. They tell you what you want to hear. They lie like its their job! Hell it is their job! Dont beleave any thing a recruter or trucking school tells you. Run like hell from trucking! Its a very hostile profession with low pay, long hours and a hell of a lot of people that lie to you. Just rember you will need to work 60 to 70 hours a week to make that 42K and that dont include the 70 a week required breaks that you dont get paid for. Thats like beeing at work for 130 to 140 hours a week to make 42k. If you stay out for several week its actually 168 hours a week away from home for that 42k. Figure out that hourly wage!!!! Thats only $11.54 and hour if you only figure the 70hrs. working. If you figure all the hours away from home its only 4.80 an hr. Your time away from home has to be worth something. Hows that 42k sound now?

 

Why would you tell someone to stay away from trucking? That's like crushing a kids dream dude it's ok to tell him some down sides but do you need to tell him to find another career? People like you are just buzz kills if this is what he wants to do then what's wrong with that.


Do what you want man sure this isnt a big money making job but if its what you wanna do then do it man it's the reason im gonna start trucking it was my child hood dream and i feel it's something that i'll be good at dont let that guy talk you out of it.

 

Melpromud, do you have any satisfaction with your current line of work? Jeez come onto a trucking forum and your whining like a baby about how no one will ever make money going into trucking. Try working outside 70 hours a week in a North Dakota winter and I'll bet that truck sounds a hell of a lot better. So what if I have to start at a "bottom feeder" company; do you know how many people are struggling to get by right now working at fast food joints? I don't mind working my ### off for 42k a year. In fact I would love to. People have forgotten what its like to do a hard days work for a fair wage. Its not exactly like its the most physically intensive job either. I really don't care if you hate your career but you don't have to be so negative and discouraging to people that are just coming into the industry; let us find out for ourselves. Now if you have something helpful to input, feel free.

 

Any more I dont have any satisfaction with trucking. Every one I encounter from the shippers, recievers, DOT, Dispatch, owners, maintance dept, the general public, all the four wheelers, and even other drivers make trucking a very negitive job any more. No one gives a sh/t about the driver anymore. Im willing to work my butt off for my pay but no one cares if your sitting for hours or days waiting to load, unload, or find a load with no pay. The people that take care of this go home at 5 and they get paid no matter what. Think about how much we do for free. A guy working in the warehouse dont do anything for free. Tell that guy he has to wait for a truck to show up but he aint going to get paid till it gets thier. It wont happen. As far as being a buzz kill. I hope I am! I hope I can save someone that thinks trucking is the answer to their problems the head ach it is. I hope I save them the thousands of dollars they will spend on schooling. I hope I save them the lieing and cheating these POS companies hand out. Some one that has dreamed about trucking since they were a kid will still do it and maby they will deal with all the crap because thats all they ever wanted. Im trying to tell the person that never thought twice about a truck till they seen the aid on TV for a trucking school telling them how great it will be and how much money they will make. Its all a bunch of crap. Trucking schools and recruters are the biggest bunch of liers on the planet.

 

Listen...I am pretty sure your attitude towards life is the reason you "hate the trucking industry".

Now, if you want to be a jerk and throw negativity around IN EVERY THREAD YOU POST IN, then expect to have some thrown back at you. I, myself, don't really want to hear your rant about "everyone I encounter is negative"...because there are a thousand drivers on this site that don't get negativity everywhere they go.

I think it's time to take a gander in the mirror and decide where all the negavtivity stems from...

 

In my old life I earned $35 an hour, $90k a year with overtime. My commute was 2 hours each way to work on average so that's 50 hours a week without overtime. If I worked 60 hours that week, plus the 10 hours of commute now I'm up to 70 just like in trucking. I was paying for all the fuel to get back and forth to work in the gas guzzling Ford 1/2 ton about $100 every other day.

In my new life I started out at $0.25 cents a mile or you could say $15 bucks an hour at 60 miles per hour. So in my old life I might have made more per week but I was in a higher tax bracket, more fatigued, $350 off the top every week for fuel so I see that I'm basically taking home the same money ironically for less effort. A 40 hour paycheck was $1004 take home. 60 miles per hour times 40 hours equals 2400 miles times $0.25 equals $600 dollars. I keep more of that because of the lower tax bracket. I keep more of that because I'm not paying for the fuel. I keep more years of my life because of reduced stress from long commutes.

Old life: $700 to spend on bills, food, etc
New life: $500 to spend on bills, food etc

P.S. I'm up to $0.30 a mile and due for another raise. I may be in the market to buy a truck soon and potentially could triple or even quadruple my income thereby surpassing my old life's earning.

P.S.S The thing is don't focus so hard on the 'free time' at shippers and receivers where you are waiting around for the load or whatever. Consider that your 'commute' time like in the old life scenario where you wouldn't be paid to get to/from work every day. If you can wrap your mind around it and utilize your 34 hour breaks in there doing activities you enjoy, trucking can be just as rewarding as any other occupation. So there is value in your time away from home. There is value in your time. Your time is your life. If you don't enjoy your time you're not enjoying your life. Seek help to understand this concept.

There's 100 ways to skin a cat. Bottom line is where ever you're at or where ever you're going is the perfect place to be so be happy with it. Love what you do and do what you love.