Three months with Werner...

And every spare minute I get, I'm applying elsewhere. No one I've run into in this company gives a #### about anything but delivery of the load. If you deliver it while in your death throes, so be it as long as it gets to the client. You should also be ready to give it right back to these smart-mouthed dispatchers if you're going to work for Werner.

I trained on Dollar General and was told it was a physically demanding account, but it wasn't too bad actually. What sucked was that after I finished training I was put on the Family Dollar account, which was far more physically demanding as you have to fingerprint every single item coming out of the trailer. Lifting three gallon boxes of Clorox repeatedly from the floor of the trailer to chest height to get it on the roller wasn't working for me, so I told dispatch that I wasn't going to be doing the account after a week spent with a mentor to learn how to set up the rollers. At this point, one dispatcher stated that since they'd already put a load on me, I'd have to deliver if they couldn't find anyone else to take it. I told both he and my specified dispatcher that I would NOT be doing Family Dollar, regardless as to whether or not they could find someone else to take the load. After that, I ended up being assigned to the OTR group.

Mind you, I've been working for Werner since early November, and have spent almost this entire week in a motel as my truck has broken down. That wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that since sending another driver to pick up my trailer, Werner has made no inquiries to find out whether I'm alive or dead. They have also put me in a position where I've had to pay twice now for a motel room because calls to dispatch go straight to voicemail usually, and when they don't I'm on hold for ridiculously long periods of time, whereupon reaching someone I find them slow to want to give me EFS check authorization info. I swear, if I was closer to home than I am, I'd already have quit. I don't know how it was when C.L. Werner ran things, but this company as it is today is half-assed at best.

If you're a fairly new driver and considering Werner, you may have a better or worse experience, though I'd imagine it'd be about the same experience I'm having. I don't regret leaving my former employer, PAM Transport, to come here because they were even worse, but Werner isn't for a guy like me who isn't keen on being talked to any kind of way by dispatchers who aren't bright enough to send you to the right location to pick up a ###### trailer. Idiots run rampant at the dispatch level, and I fear even higher than that. Fortunately, it won't be too much longer until I'm looking at Werner in the rearview mirror...

 

You know, I think what may really be worthless is trying to warn new people away from crap companies. Why? Because I did read what people had to say about Werner and figured, as many people will reading such posts, that the experiences of those people wouldn't necessarily apply to me. I mean, is there a single trucking company you can't find somebody on here complaining about? People won't believe you one way or the other until it's their experience due to how many liars there are in this industry, and many of the companies universally thought of as horrible have drivers posting here who claim they're happy. No way to save people from making the same mistakes then.