Who's The Worst Of Them ALL to work for?

Sure are infact Werner starts at .26 cpm and if not on special dedicated run it takes 10yrs to reach .35 cpm...their 11 western regional pays .21 cpm for trips 500 and up and only.15 cpm on DH miles ...Werners not alone many of the big carriers have wages carried over from 1979.

 

THESE COMPANIES WILL KEEP THE LOW WAGES AS LONG AS THERE ARE DESPERATE DRIVERS OUT THERE WILLING TO WORK FOR BEANS AND RICE. WERNER, SWIFT, STEVENS, PRIME JUST TO NAME A FEW.... NEW DRIVERS ARE THE BIG PROBLEM SINCE THEY DON'T HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT THEY SHOULD BE MAKING AND NO EXPERIENCE TO BARGAIN WITH. HOWEVER...EDUCATE MORE NEWBIES AND WE MIGHT GET SOMEWHERE...MAYBE...

 

We all have a story to tell, some more horrifying than others. I guess it depends on who you're talking with at the time. They're all pretty bad, problem is- they don't realize it. But, the "recruiter" from JB Hunt puts them ahead by a nose!

 

Knight pays .21 cents a mile on per diem and its taxed. Unless they screwed my check up, yep!.. thats it. They claim they give you .11 cents untaxed but thats another blue sky story unless I need a new calculater. I talked to a swift driver that drove for Knight and said he went backwards instead of forward when he switched outfits. He said he ran the se regional with swift and made near .40 cents. I drove for an outfit in 1989 and they paid .19 cents a mile for a driver with no experience. I'm told that New England pays .25 cents a mile. I got laid off from a company that paid .535 cents per mile and most trips were shorter than the actual miles. Meaning it was more like .60 cents. 100% drop & hook. Yea! it broke my heart to be laid off. . . . If drivers keep excepting this minimum wage pay scale trucking will never pay well. Driver should make at least .50 cents per mile. That should be the starting pay for school grads. They are just way too many drivers willing to drive for peanuts. Delta pilots fly just a few hours a day and refused a 15% pay cut at an average of $225.000 per year. A job that's about 3 times easier than driving a truck.

 

My Opinion Dry Van & Flatbed CRST of Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Refer = C.R. England of Salt Lake City

They have both ruined alot of lives, and continue to still do so!

 

ok, I did not read all 90 pages of posts but the worst companies that I know of are both small companies
southwestern express out of oklahoma city, the co. is owned by a guy who would (in my opinion) sell his grandmother to a brothel just o make a dime) and most of their profit is made by screwing drivers and lease operators
the other is a private oilfield sevice company called a & a tank truck
to them, saftey is a foriegn word
then there is LHL trucking another oilfield service co. their motto is "run till you drop, and if you drop, its only because you are a P*$$y"
the pay sucks, and they screw the drivers out of most of it, nobody in managment can pass a UA (this I know because I used to be the warehouse manager)
since I quit, they have killed 2 drivers by running them into the ground
(perfect saftey record while I worked there)

 

Worst one? Werner doesn't care about their drivers. They would rather shut a truck down and make you swap out a load rather than get more $$$. They also have the WORST breakdown department you will ever deal with. Unless you can get in on a dedicated account (i.e. Target or Walmart DC loads), you are gum on the bottom of a shoe to them.

I don't know who said Roehl was a great company. That was the weirdest, most political company I have ever worked for in any industry.

I can't say much about Swift, having never worked for them, but I have managed to see enough stupidity out of their drivers to be glad I didn't go to their school. I went to school with MCT up in Sioux Falls. At least their instructors cared, and they did have brains.

 

Yet there are people who come on here and say they are making big money with some of these outfits. What a joke.

 

Once again, it depends on longivity, where you are, and what you do at Werner whether its dedicated, regional, etc. Yes, there are people working for very little when they start at these companies. Werner isnt the only one who pays their beginners very little.

 

I understand where you coming from but I think time way is different for each driver. If your in the major shipping lane where prime or crete runs your chances of getting home are far better than someone that would have to drive 4-8 hours out of the shipping area.

For example, Where I live its a major shipping lane for prime. I see close to 50+ prime trucks coming by my house a day and I've actually spoke to a few around there (i was thinking about going with prime...well still am) And they say they get home almost every weekend and the max is every 10-14 days which is pretty common for most carriers. And most of the drivers i've spoken to live around 30 mins or so from me.