Werner Enterprises, Inc. - Omaha, Ne.

Absolutely as a sympathetic gesture.

 

§392.3 Ill or fatigued operator.

No driver shall operate a motor vehicle, and a commercial motor carrier shall not require or permit a driver to operate a commercial motor vehicle, while the driver's ability or alertness is so impaired, or so likely to become impaired, through fatigue, illness, or any other cause, as to make it unsafe for him/her to begin or continue to operate the commercial motor vehicle. However, in a case of grave emergency where the hazard to occupants of the commercial motor vehicle or other users of the highway would be increased by compliance with this section, the driver may continue to operate the commercial motor vehicle to the nearest place at which that hazard is removed.

 

T'is a good question, but the "context" (i guess is the right word) did'nt lend an appearance of me quitting. (a valid point though.) I'm embarassed to admit it, but I stayed with the company after returning to work. Werner's H.R. rep put me in touch with my boss' boss. Said dispatcher came up with a pretense of misunderstanding. Still being a fairly new driver, I did'nt have a frame of reference, and was willing to put it down to 1 bad apple. (was too soon to yet to be seen for the pattern it became)
Was actually still driving for the company when put in touch with said woman who refused to help.

 

Thanx Turbo, ya caught the reply before I saw it. Hope the "newbie"part of the original post was'nt insulting. Just thought it was common knowledge.

 

It actually was over the q-comm. I thought long and hard about filing the report, but did'nt want to look like a "snitch" trouble maker. (to other companies) Plus, I'd heard that being electronic, D.O.T. looks at their qcomm records very closely. Ducking responsiblilty perhaps? I was just glad to be gone, and relieved that I kept cool enough to leave politely.

 

I was driving for Werner during the time they were devoloping the electronic logging, when it was "official" and recognised by DOT my miles dropped around 35% and my average length of loads went from around a thousand miles to 700. After that I left because I was being told the computor was never wrong...

 

this from your title to this thread:

"Post subject: Werner: STAY AWAY from this company"!!!

i took it to mean that you left the company, and was warning us of your situation.
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to TurboTrucker, my suggestion of bringing in either the death certfiicate or the newspaper obituary and show it to the company officials may be extreme, but, can we really be sure that anyone with-in the company would do any "leg work" by making simple phone calls to verify his mother's death? i think not, as the company would have just considered his mother's death, some ploy to leave the company (which he admits, he never quit),but simply had to return home for her wake/funeral, etc's.
sometimes, to prove a point, we need to go to extreme lenghts to prove our innocence of any wrong doings, as "acording to the trucking companies", we are guilty of something, all the time, as they need scapegoats till we prove ourselves, and we should never have to be so extreme in clearing ourselves to justify our actions. but, to shove that death certificate, or obituary in someone's face as proof, and making that accuser to look the fool, is, priceless.

 

carries such a high reputation on these boards?

Driver of Semi-Truck Dies After Early Morning Chase
Taken from KREM TV in Spokane, WA.
from: http://www.krem.com/topstories/stories/krem2_052406_semichase.19279985.html
click on the link for the full story

Well, burst my bubble! When I completed posting, I checked and the link wouldn't work. Correct address and all...hmmmm?

Oh well, if anyone knows how to fix it, please do so.

Bummer

 

The link worked on my computer.

What the heck would he be driving at 3am? Must have been lost.

That is why the companies have you fill out all that medical and medication information.