Werner Enter And Drivers Management Recruiter Fraud Omaha Nebraska
Fresh out of school, I tried to get on with May Trucking, a small, family-owned, self-insured firm. They decided that I wasn't driving well enough, so they said I should go get some experience somewhere else, and try again with them later.
I called a Werner recruiter, told him *everything* that had happened at May. I asked him if Werner still wanted to talk to me after that. He said he'd check, then a few days later they set it up for me to go from Boise to Portland for orientation.
During orientation recruiting called me, and I learned that the first recruiter had not reported what I said accurately. I told them again what I had told the first recruiter, and after a few hours they said okay, they'd send me out with a trainer.
I was out for 59 days without going home. I got along very well with the trainer, and he gave me good grades on everything. For most of the time we were in fact team driving, because he crawled back in the sleeper when I took the wheel. So, Werner was getting all the benefits of a driving team, and I was getting a little over $300 a week.
First they told me training was 275 hours behind the wheel. When I passed that mark, they "didn't have a truck for me." Finally, well beyond 300 hours, the student driver manager said to drop me at the Dallas terminal to get my own truck.
At the Dallas Terminal, I got a call from the head of recruiting, confronting me with that first false account of the May business, which I had already corrected once. I told him the true facts of the matter, told him that I had already corrected that once with his staff, and that I had given the same version to the first recruiter.
At that point he said that May had reported on my DAC that I had been terminated, and they weren't hiring anyone who had been terminated by another major carrier.
This after working me at slave wages for two months, in possession of all information regarding my employment with May.
They put me on a 40 hour bus ride from Dallas to Boise, and, adding insult to injury, the W-2 that Drivers Management sent me shows total wages of $342.39, when I have a statement dated 11/06/08 showing earnings to date of $2,217.47. So now I have to try and straighten that out before I can even file my income taxes.
I haven't found out yet what Werner put on my DAC, but England looked at my DAC and said no.
I wonder now if I'll ever get anybody to hire me.
Dsc
Boise, Idaho
U.S.A.
3 Updates & Rebuttals
Clarence
Ossineke,Michigan,
U.S.A.
Copy of DAC Report
#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, February 23, 2009
You can obtain a copy of your DAC report from the following:
USIS 4500 S. 129th E. Avenue
Suite 200
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74134
Attention: Consumer COnsulting Department
Just write a letter requesting your DAC report. In the letter, tell them the name of the Company you worked for. They will send you a form to fill out or call this number 1-800-381-0645 and follow the prompts.
Good luck with this.
Dana
Hancock,Maine,
U.S.A.
A Fellow Werner Student Driver Scam Victim
#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Sun, February 22, 2009
Upon completition of my 275 (actual 300) hours and 15,000 miles of accident/incident free driver's training, I requested that I be assigned a truck and provided a OTR (solo) opportunity. Werner's response was that they didn't have any OTR jobs available. They stated that I would have to remain in "trainee" status until such time as a position became available. I replied that I couldn't continue on the $45/day student driver pay and that I would seek employment with another company...little did I know what would follow. My trainer was clearly angry at me because he assumed I would remain with him for another month or so. When he dropped me off at the Dallas terminal, he gave me a lousy evaluation that he reluctantly and embarrassedly signed. He refused to give me the required road test and I had to go to the safety department to schedule a road test from one of their employees. The test was a 20 minute sham conducted by a department goon who had an obvious agenda. I was not going to pass his test and subsequently received the news the following morning when he said that It was determined that I was to be terminated. He took my employee badge and 30 minutes later I was waiting for my Greyhound Bus at the Dallas station. 3 unbelievably miserable days later I arrived back in Bangor Maine. I soon discovered that none of the other major trucking companies that have similar student driving programs will not hire if terminated from another company. I am convinced this is because they are all perpertrating similar scams and once you have gone through one program you have them figured out. They are accomplishing "Team" driver deliveries while only paying the trainer real wages. As soon as the student is released, the trainer is already off to pick up his next student and thus the program remains ongoing, hardly missing a beat. Werner should be ashamed of how they treated me and they should be held accountable for using this sham student driver training program to create team accounts. If I can't drive I would gladly move on. This isn't the case as my 300 hours/ 15,000 miles of actual logbook (safe,accident/incident) driving record reveals. The road test was an absolute sham and I can prove myself to anyone who is unbiased, impartial, and not a company stooge. I believe that a class action law suit is just hanging out there waiting for the right labor lawyer to grab it. How many other student drivers have experienced fundementally the same disgraceful terminations and can't get a trucking job to this day? Someone with federal oversight authority with respect to the trucking industry should be all over this situation. Let's get this case on the road to justice and double-clutch it right into high gear!!
Larry
HOUSTON,Minnesota,
U.S.A.
GOOD LUCK
#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Sun, February 15, 2009
I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH I HAVE BEEN THERE WITH
WERNER. FIRST OFF GO TO USIS DAC.COM AN REQUIST A COPY OF YOUR DAC REPORT. THIS MAY TAKE 3-4 WEEKS TO GET. TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT IT. IF IT IS WRONG DOWN A DISPUTE FORM AN SEND THAT IN
READ DIRECTIONS VERY WELL ON THE USIS CONSUMER REPORT DISPUTE FORM.
GOOD LUCK!