Werner is a good company

I brickman was refering to iraqvet.. i know i was ... not to you at all ... and for future refrence, if anyone slams you for driving for werner , ignor it .. people get picked on no matter who they drive for ... one rule of thumb that i have learned long ago and still follow is that it dont matter if you drive for werner, swift, jb , prime, etc, it dont matter if you drive 6, 10, or 18 wheels, we share the same road and would like to keep alive and safe out there ...

 

I have never ever had someone talk bad about another company while on the road. We may make a comment about a particular driver but no one generalizes and says all so and so drivers are bad. Sorry, never heard it so don't condone anyone saying anything nasty like you did.

 

i think he is just sore that people talk down to him for driving for werner and he takes it personally which he shouldn't ... everyone has opinions and sometimes some take it to heart and they shuldn;t but they do ...i personally dont have a favorite company, or a favorite brand of truck ... i personally will drive for anyone and drive anything as long as i get miles and i am on the road ... i can careless in making 1300 a week or whatnot.. i am happy with being on the road and if i had to work my miles and get paid 500 a week, who cares, i know i dont .. as long as i do what i love and that is driving and the bills are paid ...

something i am not experienced in and that is taking the lady in my life on the road with me ... i have taken my son and daughter a few times, but they are grown and now it is her turn to go for the very first time and that is something i never experienced and look forward to seeing if she can handle it .. guess i will know thursday when i pull out and she is in the seat screaming that she is bouncing hahahahahahahaha

 

Hope she enjoys it as much as I did!!! And that you have an air ride passenger seat! For the first time, drove in a passenger seat WITHOUT an air ride seat - UGH!! NOT NICE!!!!

And, yeah, you're right about the rest but that doesn't give him the right to come on here and harp about people calling him names - we didn't do it!!!!

 

hey mymin ... i have a question .. those aircards for internet .. how expensive are they and how are the signals on the road .. thinking of getting one for her and dont know the pricing or anything.. might keep her off me when going down the road .. hahahahaha

 

Get one from Verizon. You get a free card with a contract or you pay around $100 for the card. Make sure you get the right kind - most new laptops take the Express card, NOT the PCMCIA card.

It's $69 a month, I think, plus all the yadda yadda taxes. The signal is great in the northeast except, of course, for parts of Maine where signals suck, period. I loved having it - sure kept me busy when I was bored and it got dark early.

Also, if the signal sucks a lot because you're out of large cities, check into Maximum Signal's boosters - he's got one on for a Christmas draw - they're supposed to help a lot.

Make sure you buy an adapter for her to plug her laptop into in the truck (cig. lighter adapter to plug)

 

How long have you been driving there? I'm a recent graduate looking for my first job, and I keep hearing these stories about people out 8 weeks with a trainer just to get their 375 DRIVE hours in, that it's hard to get all those hours when you're fueling, loading/unloading, waiting around, team driving, so on. Basically, the story is Werner uses new grads as cheap labor sources. Then when you're done, you sit in a motel for weeks unpaid and wait for someone to die or quit so you can get your truck. That there's guys living on the continental breakfast because they're out of money. There's some things I like about Werner, but after hearing all this, and hearing you only get 26 cents per mile to start, I'm wary of them.