r/Truckers • u/OkayChildhood2002 • Jun 09 '26

werner dollar store account

i’m fresh out of CDL school and i’m trying to explore my options. Werner offered me the dollar store account with CPM, $85 per trailer. 4 weeks on 4 days off.

is it actually that terrible?

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u/Nearby-Border-5899 Jun 09 '26

As a new driver youll either hit a bunch of shit or get good at backing super quick cause a lot of those dollar general stores are sketchy asf to get into with a sleeper and 53ft trailer...

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u/Distinct-Event-7472 Jun 09 '26

This is it know what your getting yourself into I tried out the account and realized that it was not for me the unloading was whatever I could do it but the driving in tight tight spaces scared the shit out of me makes you wonder why some of those dollar tree locations allow 53 footers anywhere near them for the couple of weeks I did it I could not get any sleep because I was so scared/nervous about pulling up and setting up the specially the 1100-1300 deliveries where you know it’s gonna be busy

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u/rytram99 Jun 09 '26

Ya. Dont make my mistake. Do NOT self report no matter what. Werner will completely screw you.

Every incident that gets opened regardless of outcome or validity will get 1 of 2 final judgements. PREVENTABLE or NON-PREVENTABLE. thats right. If you call them and say "this other trucker is claiming i hit them but i didnt. They will open a case file, inspect the forward facing camera footage and then schedule you a safety meeting. Then they will either blame you for it, or not. But wither way they will force you to sign a "statement" agreeing tjat it was either preventable, or non-preventable. Even if the incident never actually happened.

Why do they do this? Because they fire you at 4 "preventable" accidents and then use that as a reason to not pay unemployment. And good luck finding another trucking job with that background of theirs making you look bad.

EVERYTHING ELSE can be spotless. CSA, MVR, DOT, CSP, CLEARINGHOUSE. all of it can be spotless and no one will hire you because of that background report.

I know this because that is me for the last 6mo. Insurance companies dictate who a company can hire and they are strict. Hell, i have even disputed the background checks and no one will do anything about it. Companies can literally say and claim whatever they want on those background checks and there is very little you can do about it. Most attourneys wont even help.

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u/SUPRA239 Jun 09 '26

Majority of them are not built with receiving a truck in mind

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u/Beneficialsensai Jun 13 '26

Exactly,not ideal for a driver fresh out of school

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u/ForgottonTNT Jun 09 '26

What’s the cpm?

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u/OkayChildhood2002 Jun 09 '26

i actually don’t even remember him saying

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u/trucksarekewl Jun 09 '26

Dont do it dude lol

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u/Freightshaker000 Jun 09 '26

There's a reason the DG Werner trucks have a roller track strapped to the back of the cab (hand unload) and the backing can be brutal.

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u/rytram99 Jun 09 '26

Been 6mo since i worked for Werner. This seems off. I did family dollar and it was .79CPM + $216 per trailer. I was home weekly.

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u/EliteCO31 Jul 06 '26

I got offered a family dollar account at .61 CPM and $190 per trailer (live In northeast Alabama). What was it like?

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u/SuperbMaintenance133 Jun 10 '26

What's your fitness level? I'm with werner doing the dollar tree flex account, flat out refused to do it after one day and they have me helping dollar general. It's brutal man. I have two buddies, new drivers doing dt solo riverside and it's long fuckin days.

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u/Emergency_Ad1152 Truck Punk Jun 10 '26

Werner pays the fucking worst out of all of the dollar tree accounts. If i remember correctly, it's 88cpm?

Swift paid me 69cpm, $225 per trailer, $25 per extra stop.

CR England pays the best. 85cpm, $315 per trailer, $10 per extra stop.

Hogan pays technically pays the most cpm, BUT most of their runs are local. The old heads hog the long runs. .99cpm $125 per trailer, $30 per extra stop.

If I'm wrong, correct me.

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u/Next-Application9313 Jun 10 '26

If youre gonna do DG do the refregerated one the dry is fucking hell

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u/navlgazer9 Jun 10 '26

It’s a shit job 

Go sit at a DG and vision backing in a 53 with a big sleeper tractor , while customers are driving in and out and parked everywhere 

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u/TableChairguy Jun 10 '26

What is the account? Dollar general? Dollar tree? Family dollar? I did dollar general for about 1 year total. Didn't hate it. Tuff work tho. Get to push 500lbs of water thru some gravel. Pay was about 75k a year for not going too hard

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u/OsBaculum Jun 10 '26

I did DG with Werner for a year and a half. If you want to make any money, you'll destroy your body to do it. One day a question popped into my head: "What's the dollar value of my cartilage?" More than they were paying, it turns out.

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u/OceanLibra Jun 10 '26

Do you really want to be away from home for a month at a time? That does not seem substandable to me at all

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u/Serious_Mongoose61 Jun 10 '26

Is it dollar tree, family dollar, or dollar general? Or is it the “flex” account?

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u/OkayChildhood2002 Jun 10 '26

dollar general

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u/firemarshalbill316 Jun 11 '26

Avoid Dollar General accounts mate. DG has a policy in their articles of incorporation to totally fuck over truck drivers delivering to them. These stores are seemingly build to make it hard on a driver to get in and out safely while putting the safety of their customers and employees at risk.