Werner Enterprises ripoff takes me for the long haul Omaha Nebraska
I used to work for werner back in 1989. werner is not the company that it was back then.Iam a solo driver and I can run 3500 plus miles a week. I have to in order to survive and pay my bills. Since I have been with them ive seen less than 2000 miles and there was 2 weeks where I was driving with somebody and we drove one week 7500 miles, the other week 4300 miles. After that I ended up kicking him off the truck for reasons that make me sick to even think about it. Since then they have put me on the back burner giving me loads here and there.One week a 1000 miles the other 1500 and so on.What I dont understand is why these big trucking companies hier so many people,put them in trucks,give them miles for the 1st couple of weeks. Then have them sit waiting for loads for long periods of time, thats why people leave. the trucking industry should pay as follows I wake up at 8am do my pre-trip Ill lets say drive my 11 hours and make it to my receiver at 7pm.
Ive made my money for the day my appt is for 7am the next morning I check in at 7am and Ill sit till 1pm whos time Iam I on not mine I cant go anywhere.Those 6 hours I spend in the dock waiting to be unloaded are my hours that I lost to make money.the hours that we sit on the companies time should be paid by who. the company at a rate of 5 to 10 dollars an hour to make up for lost time.the military gets compensated well for being away from home so should we.(WERNER CARES)ABOUT THEMSELVES.lets stand up for our selves why do we let them do this to us we deserve better they go home every nite while we deal with traffic shippers receivers snotty people assholes etc.etc.per mile is not good enough if you only make me drive 1000 miles
Alfredo
tamarac, Florida
U.S.A.
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Deborah
Grand Junction,Colorado,
U.S.A.
Umm, okay
#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, November 02, 2007
I worked for Werner from 1997 until the end of 2000, about 40 months.
During my entire time with Werner, miles was never an issue. Even being required to run legal thanks to computerized logging, I never ran less than my minimum 3,000 miles per week required (by me for financial reasons) unless there were very good reasons. Typically, these "down periods" would be from January to March, usually weather related (it's really difficult to drive in blizzards and ice storms). This is also a traditional annual slow period throughout the trucking industry, mainly due to the fact people are paying their "holiday" bills and not buying anything but the necessities.
As for "detention" time at customers, welcome to the trucking industry. I run regional for my current employer, and detention time is always a problem since I am preplanned several days in advance and it has a ripple effect on subsequent loads. Believe it or not, though, detention time is not the problem it once was, though it still exists.
As for your comment on how the military is "well compensated," what country are you speaking of? I make more in a bad week driving trucks than I did in a month as an E-5 in the US Army, and that's with jump pay, housing allowances, etc. Our military personnel are the lowest paid public servants our government employs, and have the hardest and most dangerous job in the world.
12 plus years of industry experience tells me there is more here than you are telling.