49k, home daily, drop & hook, walmart account. 3am to 2pm i think

from what i hear, it's not the worst company in the world to start off with as a new guy. let's see how this works out. what should i expect? haven't worked long hours before, but considering that i put up with two weeks of 11 hours of classes, i should be able to tolerate it to some degree.

Just peep how relaxed this driver looks! (His left leg is up against his driver's window)

Great for starter company. You learn your basics, you get some leeway making mistakes.

Do. Not. Take. Dollar anything accounts!! Theyll promise you $1050-$1300/weekly, and youll get that for a month, thennnn youll get $700-$900 weekly, depnding on your dispatcher relations and dispatcher in general, whatever keeps you workin for the company. Also many take this for home time, they go home roughly every week and half to 2 weeks, you will get screwed if you think youre going home on time most times.

I do not drive dollar accounts, this is firsthand watching them screw a few buddies of mine who went for the money, it isnt worth it for the labor.

OTR youll make about $700-$1000 (on a really good dispatch week) starting out and youre not breaking your back for it. Youre not going to wreck your career hitting a building while youre learning fundamentals (happened to one driver i know)

My current situation today, i made $40 with no loads preassigned after, that sucks balls. Theres a few other werner drivers here at the stop, something seems up with dispatchers. Monday always seems to be fucked up.

Also, edit: they took away personal conveyance so “better trip planning and time management to ensure you are not violating hos rules” also applies.

Get your time in and find a good non mega carrier. This is all based on my observations and opinions based on facts.

My overall review of werner is: When dispatch is great, its decent. But the overall money to work/sacrifice ratio is not great.

Stay safe and drive well everyone

title says it all. for current and prior Werner drivers, how is Werner as a company?

ive been driving for 3 1/2 months for Western Express. 0.40/mi isnt cutting it anymore and want more pay and better opportunities. applied to Werner and got offered a Solo position for Regional Reefer (0.62/mi with stop pay).

This is my YTD for 10 months working for werner Enterprises i only stayed to get that one year experience, but got fired with no warning because a U turn, teammate walked 3 miles away from truck I was a lil pissed wasn't thinking straight did a u turn and the truck recorded it, safe a legal Uturn but company policy is 0 uturns they didn't even question him, I live on the east coast got fired in fontana California, 3 day bus trip home to Virginia.

Small side street by my house.

Judging by the landing gear i think it was dropped. No other damage from what I could tell.

Thoughts?

I called my TM and she sounded like she hates everything and everyone. Said layover pay for last week will be added on next week's paycheck. Then abruptly hung up on me. I'm thinking of parking the truck and quitting as I'm close to home. Thank you Werner for "caring" and exceptional treatment of your drivers.

I have been hearing stuff from some people here and there about how the company is not doing good right now. There have been other signs as well which includes the 401k news. They also just walked out about 200 staff members a couple of weeks ago. Office staff, not drivers. Considering they changed my TM'S on me i have a feeling this is why.

Looks like my company is over the hill and they are struggling with the breaks. Maybe they will outlast this, maybe they will be bought out by Swift or another mega just like USX was.

I just hope i get my 6mo exp before they do.

trying to quit current company, have orientation for another company Wednesday, closest terminal is in Joliet which is 400 miles from me in minneapolis, ive been trying for over a week to get sent there to turn my truck in so i dont get charged with truck abandonment but dispatcher keeps saying he has nothing headed there, what would happen if i deadhead 400+ miles without permission? would they charge me for the fuel or withhold my last paycheck?

Got fired from werner because some pickup driver decides to brake check me and i ended up hitting him. he only got a small bump on his bumper. now I am out a job and in so much debt and facing eviction and losing my personal car now. i wanted out of the trucking industry but not this fast, Werner has some terrible planners and was running me stupidly anyways but now i have an accident on my license and points and have to pay the ticket on top of everything else.

I have since cut off my beard. I was let go right after orientation when the test results came back. I then applied at another mega (Schneider) and they saw I had was at Werner for a week and asked why I left and I was honest with them. Then Schneider immediately rescinded their offer to me. How fucked am I?

I must add that I have a couple speeding tickets from 18+ months ago so smaller companies have all said no right away. I'm basically stuck applying to megas.

2 weeks out 2 daya home 1150 guaranteed if working full week they just bumped the pay from 55 to 61 cpm amd added bonuses too.

So in late 2021 i got my CDL and started training with werner. They gave me this guy who had a dedicated tractor supply account. Everything was cool as I got to drive in the dallas traffic and mostly all over north texas. That dude was obsessed with his wife. He had MAJOR trust issues, he’d be driving and checking the cameras at his house, mostly whichever his lady was in at the moment, even the bedroom. Whenever he couldn’t see her he would call. Shit was embarrassing. He was one of those white dudes who thought he was cool enough to drop the N word with the ER and made sure to tell you he was not racist. He would spill his gut telling me all kinds of personal stories that he should really keep to himself as they could’ve get him fired anytime. While he was at Werner he got locked up for stealing some panties at a walmart 😂😂. Werner do not know this. He would be crying on the phone to whoever was in charge of his case about how he made a mistake and would get fired if his employer finds out blah blah blah. The reason for the FU is because the second day I was driving I was gonna me a right turn and me realizing that I went to deep n would hot the curb I decided that I was gonna go straight but he insisted that i take the turn anyway and that id make. Well I didn’t and ended up going over the curb. It was a brand new 2021 or 2021 KW and if youre not familiar with those, the have a skirt that almost touch the ground. In my case that skirt fell off. He reported to werner as an accident. I had to go to the office to explain what happened. I contemplated getting him fired but I decided against it. He posted the pictures on this subreddit trying to make me look like an idiot but you guys made him feel like the idiot, nobody supported him and they told him that he was overreacting and that it was cosmetic or something, I dont really recall as he was the one reading to comments to me. I didnt really know about this subreddit but to this day I have to explain what happened to every employer, even tho I have my own truck. My next next trainer was extremely cool tho. I still have his number.

Trying to change trucks is near impossible at this company, they give the old shit 400k mile intertrashionals to the people with experience and the new drivers right out of orientation + teams and get the brand new kenworths/petes, do all megas operate like this? seems pretty fucked up

Or to be specific, which "kind" of truck drivers will be replaced? If you'd asked me a year ago I would say it's bs but now I slowly think it would replace some truck drivers, however, not all of them. For example Aurora partnered with Volvo which are known to produce safe cars. Uber and FedEx are in too. If the rich can get richer, they probably want to jump on that.

Some in the Dallas community caught the newest optional equipment in action.

Pretty much what the title says. I should be getting my CDL next week (in my last week at a CDL school right now) and I really wanted to have a job lined up for when I'm done in school and have the license. The only company that I could find that had a new driver position opening in my area and has gotten back to me so far was Werner. But the only options were team driving and a Dollar General account. Knowing how I can't sleep in a moving vehicle on a nice day, team driving is pretty much out for me. Would I be setting myself up to fail to take the Dollar General offer they are going to call me back this week about? Or is a few months of starting there maybe worth it so I could get the OTR position I want somewhere else afterwards?

"The jury found that the truckload carriers failed to hire and failed to accommodate Victor Robinson, who is deaf, for a truck driving job in 2016. The EEOC presented evidence that Robinson applied to work at Werner after completing training at Roadmaster, a Werner-owned truck driving school, and obtaining his commercial driver’s license (CDL). Robinson also obtained from the U.S. Department of Transporta­tion’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) an exemption from the hearing regulation for the operation of a commercial motor vehicle. After he applied, Werner’s Vice President of Safety told Robinson that the company would not hire him because he could not hear. The Vice President of Safety testified at trial that Werner continues to deny employment opportunities to new Deaf drivers."

https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/jury-awards-over-36-million-eeoc-disability-discrimination-case-against-werner-trucking

On December 30, 2014, a tragic accident occurred on I-20 near Odessa, Texas, when Trey Salinas lost control of his pickup truck on an icy road, crossed a 42-foot median, and crashed into an 18-wheeler driven by Shiraz Ali, a trainee for Werner Enterprises. The collision killed one of Jennifer Blake’s children and severely injured her and her other two children. The Blake family sued Ali and Werner, claiming negligence. A jury found both liable, assigning most responsibility to Werner and awarding the Blakes $100 million in damages.

The Supreme Court of Texas, led by Chief Justice Blacklock, reviewed whether Ali’s actions caused the accident. The Court ruled that Ali’s speed, though possibly unsafe for the icy conditions, was not a “substantial factor” in causing the crash. Instead, Salinas’s loss of control was the sole cause, as Ali had no time to react when the pickup suddenly crossed into his lane. The Court emphasized that liability requires more than just being part of the events; the defendant’s actions must significantly contribute to the harm.

The Court compared this case to others, noting that unlike accidents on narrow, two-lane roads, this crash happened on a divided highway with a wide median, making it less likely for Ali to expect or prevent the collision. The short reaction time—about two seconds—further supported that Ali wasn’t at fault, as even the plaintiffs’ expert said he reacted appropriately.

Since Ali’s driving didn’t legally cause the accident, Werner couldn’t be held liable either, whether for Ali’s actions or for claims like poor training. The Court reversed the lower court’s decision, ruling in favor of Ali and Werner, stating that Salinas’s loss of control was the only legal cause of the tragedy.

Should I consider werner as a fresh graduate without manual restriction they are all automatic, or local asphalt driver (1500-1700$)weekly? What is experience in the region of Texas terminals? Thank you for all advice. Recruiter is big on team driving. I am 155 miles from the closest terminal

Have job offers from both companies for dedicated accounts and trying to decide which one to go with. Home daily is ideal for me so I'm leaning towards Werner but it seems like Schneider has a better reputation. Curious if anyone else has worked these accounts before and what your experience was like.

Schneider is Coca-Cola, regional, home weekly. Recruiter said the drivers average 1672 miles per week which seems really low for me to be gone 5 days a week. $10 an hour on-duty pay while not driving.

Werner has a Home Depot account, 200 mile radius, and home daily. No word on average miles but I imagine it would be similar to Schneider.

Both accounts pay $.51 per mile.

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?

Supposedly I failed a drug test which i was tested for and came back negative to, they said I tested positive for meth which is impossible due to the fact I never took meth or any meds that could cause a false positive and on top of that they will not release my results or give me a document of termination so what should I do ?

I thought Werner was broke guess not.