Werner Enterprises, Inc. - Omaha, Ne.

Not all there trucks have APUs! There are idling restrictions, 10hrs a day! The recruiters either are liars or there info there telling people is old and out dated. Be careful with the pay. My 1st time home in 3.5 weeks I got a chance to look # my pay stubs for the 1st time, being on my own since I got done with my trainer. I found out they pay on a sliding scale, the more miles you drive, the less they pay you per miles. Any trip over 500 miles pays $.20 a mile, not the $.28 they promise you! In the 3.5 weeks I was on my own, truck spent 4 days in the shop 1st time, 1.5 days the second time. They routed me out of my region to the east coast, I had chains with me, they tried to charge for them cause I didn't turn them back in right away. It took an act of God to get that straightened out! They lied to me about my designated run I had prior to graduation from school. They lied about my home time, promised me home every weekend. They like to give you a load and make you split the thing out, and if you take the load a 100 miles and someone else takes the load 500 miles, you get paid the $.20 per mile! They pay $.11 per mile to dead head! They dead headed me 155 miles, works out to about $5.00 an hr!

I'm not going to work for free! I passed up a $15.00hr county bus driving job with benefits for this? I'm going to try and get the bus driving job back tomorrow!

I love trucking and being out on the road, just not going to do it for FREE!

 

hey guys, I am new to this site, My name is Zsolt and I am originally from Hungary. I lived in the US for the last ten years by now. I worked for Werner for a year. I immediately started with a dedicated account and was paid 30 cents per dispatched mile plus $70 for emptying the trailer and $15 for ech stop. I also had enough miles each months, so I cannot complain about the company at all. Certainly there screwed things up but I think that happens everywhere. I made good money but I also worked very hard. My advice would be that you try to get on one of their dedicated account. those accounts pay much better however yo will have to do a lot of physical work. I was on the dollar general account. Heavy physical labor but paid well.
Good Luck
zsolt

 

Lol thanks. I tried to send you a message but I dont have enough posts but the service I had did tell me that if I put there stickers on my truck and on my license that the cops would see it and let me go because they know if they give me a ticket that the service would show up and fight it and they would waste there now. My mom even thought that was funny when I tolld her. Lesson very well learned.
I did have a cb but it was a cheap cb that was $30. from walmart and somebody left it in the truck the company assigned me. I couldnt really hear much and then I switched from a Pete to a freightliner and at the terminal they refused to install it.
Ill may try for somthing local. The tickets will be more than a year in a few months so ill be more likely to get job.

 

Werner sucks. I have heard too many stories where good drivers that were loyal and dedicated to the company got capital-S--screwed. (I was one of them)Something else I have seen on this site that bothers me are people that come on here preaching their good experiences they have had and saying afterwards that anyone who has had a bad experience is just a "whiner". You had a good experience, good for you. There are more injustices and violations of workers rights commited by this company then not. In no way should a few"good stories"denounce the thousands of horror stories about this companys ethics and how they treat their drivers. This company has adopted a "warm body policy".Let me also take the time to point out that werner does have people on payroll(of 11000) who as part of their assigned duties surf the web(particulartly this site, there is a thread about truckin companies who frequent this site, cant remember what it was called though, but they're on here, believe it.)to try and protect werners good name.And when you are fired, yes i said when. onot count on getting UEI.They have gotten very good at this over the years and they WILL lie if they have to. They will leave it up to you to file the appeal(which can take up to 2 months)after the 8 week waiting period just to have it initially processed. Just letting you know.The way these people think, they gave you an opportunity, and you should be gracious and thankful to them despite having your rights violated and being treated less then human by their arrogant, greedy team of dispatchers and operations personel. Ya I know, theyre sick.Werner keeps hiring ppl becuz/ cheap labor/tax breaks.11,000 trucking jobs were lost in the month's of sep, and oct with 7500 in oct alone.Werner KEEPS hiring! omg, these people are out of control right?Schneider has drastically reduced their training program, last I heard they are not hiring unexperienced drivers at all.(they are larger then werner) If werner ran their company without the constant hiring of students and just kept experienced drivers(and paid them decently,with raises) they would go bankrupt, period.Somewould say what they are doing could be "human trafficing"of a sort.if these companies can reduce their labor costs, that is a direct reduction in overhead, which increases their bottom line. I agree that it should be best to keep a consistent work force, but the way these carriers turn people through the door[more like arevolving door], money gotten from the Feds has to help their bottom line. It is almost like they have FREE labor during the training period.I think this FREE government money is the main reason some of these carriers continue running their training schools. And from whatI understand, Werner is the only one still doing it at such a high caliber. Perhaps one reason there is such a high turnover is because there is such a financial incentive to get people through the door and into one of these training programs. They probably could care less if a driver stayed or not. They will simply grab another individual and put him into their program. It is money in the bank for them.Warm bodies as one of my dispatchers said to me once, nothin but warm bodies.

 

I have accepted the fact that I was fired and now I have a new job lined up away from the Trucking industry. I am working back at a warehouse driving a forklift and here is the best part, more money than I made while driving for Werner. Right now i am happy to do this, but I am continuing to look for a local job in and around the St. Louis, MO area. I have a couple leads and know that I can get one or the other, problem, they don't start for another month or so. So I will work on a forklift and at least get some money flowing into the house. I look forward to a steady paycheck and a wayto help my family. Truth be told, i was glad I was not out driving in the weather that has struck the Midwest and now the East Coast. All be safe now!

 

congrats on the job i also live south of st. louis and am getting out of the trucking industry after 21 years of hell. get terminated by 1 company now a days and you are scarred for life in this business. good luck on your new employment.

 

Fhbgfbfdbfvbvbvcbvbvcbvbvbvbvbvcxdcffbbfd vvfd

 

I agree completely.

You know, I have a friend that works for Werner, and we go way back (almost 20 years.) He's been at Werner over 5 years, and I don't think he's ever leaving. Personally, I don't understand why.

Werner apparently bothers all their experienced drivers to become trainers. My friends been training there for awhile, and he calls me a few times each week, and some of his stories about Werner and his students are CRAZY!

I don't know how he does it, a stronger man than I.

 

Wow, alot of posts on this thread and forum. I see alot of drivers that have been screwed and alot that have not been screwed yet saying the drivers that have been are whiners..lol lordy, lordy

 

Dunno what region you're in but i run midwest and get .15cpm deadhead mile (BS but atleast its something) and 26 cpm MINIMUM up to 40 CPM. And it doesnt seem to have anything to do with miles either, my pay stubs show shorter loads paying less than longer loads sometimes. But i usually make $800 a week unless something goes wrong...

I have an apu but it doesnt work at the moment (i wrecked it, my fault). They told me i could idle it for 10 hours a day too, but guess what? 5 minute shutdowns! cant disable, cant trick it. It even shuts down if you're at a redlight, in gear, for 5 minutes. But, 10 hours a day is plenty enough to idle. If you're idling more than that, you're getting sheety miles, and that isn't cool.

I'd like to know why i always hear werner drivers complain about things i never complain about at werner.


I do have plenty of complaints though, don't get me wrong. The company is totally back asswards on everything.
Examples:

Tried to log line 4 for a dot inspection, computer left me on line 3 because it was too short a time. Was not allowed an edit. Great, that leaves me open for a ticket. (was stopped for 10 minutes according to the level 3 inspection report...basically the cop was giving out logbook tickets and i dont have a logbook, LOL...shoulda heard the tone of his voice change when i said i had paperless. Didnt even check it. just said.."...well if y'all got paperles logs, there keepin an eye on y'all!")

Daycabs steal our OTR miles, get paid poorly and by the mile, and OTR drivers get to pickup local loads. I get $40 for any load under $40 in milage pay, so i dont care if it takes less than 4 hours. But...wtf? Why don't daycabs pick it up, OTR drivers take it where its going, and daycabs would be paid hourly...like real companies do...

I just helped out on a dedicated account. Dollar general, all driver unload (but there are occasionally backhauls that require an extra 2 stops that are drop and hook). Pay? .25 cpm (for my experience), .10 cpm extra for safety pay if you have no accidents that week (that should tell you something RIGHT THERE), $40 to unload the whole trailer, $16 per extra stop (first/last stop is always the DC, so all stops are "extra"). The problem is that i get paid for extra stops on a sliding scale on regional. $25 for the first stop, i forget all the amounts, but a 5 extra stop load ends up being $185 extra pay. FOR DROP AND HOOK. I get $10 an hour for unloading .....

Had a 5 extra stop load the other day on dollar general. Comes out to $120..and i unloaded 42,000lb myself. WTF? Would've been about $250 on midwest regional.

Dollar general drivers sing the praises about how much they make. Truth is, the pay does not justify the amount of labor they do. They might make $1000+ a week, but they're working around 90 hours a week to do that (they cheat their line 4). Workmens comp claims are extremely high. Nearly had one myself. Box hit me square in the eye yesterday, glasses bounced right off my head. I most likely will have a black eye today!


And I'm forced to work 6 days a week for no reason at all. What's wrong with giving me a 2 day weekend every week off? Sure they need trucks on the weekend but I'd work a few weekends to make up for it.


Anyway, I'll stick with werner until i find a non OTR job, or atleast a much better OTR job.