Deborah
Grand Junction,#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.