Werner Enterprise They tell alot of lies just to get you to come aboard to this company. Ripoff Omaha Nebraska

When you go to an orientation ask " Is this Company Unionized?" -No- " Why not?".

 It may be an instant ticket to go home, but most of the problems in the industry happens because truckers accept the BS that these companies offer. If we all got paid hourly, we would be able to park the truck at said time, instead of rushing beyond our 11 hours of driving and 14 hours on duty for the sake of getting paid by the mile and getting the load there on time. The unfortunate problem with that is "what company will pay us what we are worth hourly". It is definately not in this country.

let me bring something up real quick that im sure alot of other people have already thought of..Werner ent. is a VERY big company that makes ALOT of money, with around what?10k employess and 7k trux ..somethin like that right?anyways, u think they dont have atleast 1 person devoted to going on sites like this one and another one is ..ugh truckersreport.com.. u think they dont have atleast one person to go to diff websites to defend them? plzz.. some of the posts on the truckersreport.com is so obvious that it is someone from omaha..lol wake up; call me crazy but its prety obvious to me..anyone else?

Christopher before you complain you realy need to know the LAW

by LAW all cdl holders are REQUIRED to log ALL miles driven in a CMV (paid or unpaid) it's not up to you OR the company if you log it. the LAW saids if you are driving a cmv you log it as DRIVING (and yes all 11/14 hr rules apply) it doesn't say IF you are paid you log it....

the only and i mean THE ONLY exception is an O/O driving HIS/HER own truck and not under dispatch...... it's call personal use and ONLY an O/O can use it.

now as to not being paid to drive home.....????
good luck finding a company that will pay you to drive THEIR truck home after all WHY should they pay you to drive their truck 100-300 ($4+ per gl and at 7mpg = $57- $171) THEY pay so YOU can drive home...? alot of companys MAKE you take the truck to their terminal and drive YOUR car home or if they will let you take their truck home but will charge YOU milage so be glad they even let you take it home at all..

and you said "THEY DON'T PROMISE YOU THE MILES THEY SAID YOU WILL GET PER WEEK. THERE SHOULD BE A LAW AGAINST THEM FOR BEING DISHONEST"
if they don't promise you miles then HOW are they being dishonest....?

"THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS THERE BUSINESS IN OTHER PLACES, AND OTHER THINGS WHY NOT THIS TOO" realy....? the government is not involved in the trucking industry..? so i guess the (FMCSA) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is not the federal government and has nothing to do with the trucking industry.

IMO you need to grow up or change profession,

you know i agree with the ex employee of DMI as i am an ex employee of DMI myself and i thought i had a problem with the 60k a year they were paying me and the awesome benefits until i quit and went with a different company. You know trucking companies are a dime a dozen and there is no one trucking company that fits everyone...i had a great experience with werener and i am sorry i ever left them so try and keep your rip off comments to yourself because if the company is not for you then so what go with a company that could care less about your safety and wont pay you the benefits and compensation that i recieved with werener.

Werner is a joke they do not pay their drivers worth a crap! I would never work for them period. I have been researching them for awhile any BIG company will not pay you what you should make. I feel sorry for you guys driving for them. But, it never fails somebody will always defend them and say yes to LOW wages. Have fun out there.

Christopher:

I bet you are one of those stupid and moronic truckers who believe it is just fine to tailgate a car at 70 miles an hour just because you want to go 85. After all, its the FAST lane... right? And its ok to intimidate and endanger the lives of those idiots in the car because your big bad trucking company intimidates you... right?

What a jerk you are.

AND GUESS WHAT... TYPING IN ALL CAPS IS CONSIDERED VERY RUDE BECAUSE IT IS DIFFICULT TO READ AND IS CONSIDERED SHOUTING.

What a jerk you are.

Have you guessed that I am not a truck driver? Tell you what... I will stay out of trucker conversations if you stay out of my realm... in other words, UNLESS YOU ARE A COMPUTER GEEK, STAY OFF THE INTERNET.

P.S. I think most truckers are responsible and safe drivers. Its the few that aren't that are very visible and give you all a bad name.

Wow, talk about a hot-head!

I worked for Drivers Management, Inc. (the subsidiary that actually employs all the OTR drivers for Werner) from 7/97 until 10/00. I have also worked directly for Werner at their Fontana terminal as a local driver during my last few months employed with them.

Before I explain why I left, let me explain about Werner's somewhat unique logging system (I was one of those who participated in the original pilot and law enforcement training programs).

Because of the way Werner's automated logging works, there is no need for a driver to keep paper logs. This eliminates 90% of errors (which result in tickets, btw), reduces paperwork downtime, and really was quite a pleasure to work with from a driver perspective. It also eliminated ALL false logging, although those of us who participated in the original pilot program knew some ways to legally "fudge" the logs to gain precious time to get to a customer, home, or safe place to park for required rest breaks.

Since the system is very automated, there is no way to take the truck "offline" as it were to allow for travel from your last stop to your home. Werner had initially allowed some editting by the logs department to account for this, but with several thousand drivers, it required incredible time and expense to make these corrections. As a result, Werner decided it was to timely and costly to allow drivers to log off duty "line 1" to travel home.

In addition, Werner OWNS the truck. THEY pay the insurance, fuel, licensing, and permits. If you get into an "at fault" accident while driving home for personal time, they pay for it, and through the nose. You might lose your job, but they might lose millions of dollars. They do not have to even let you take the truck home, if they decide not to (as the Fontana drivers know well).

As for your potty-fingered reply to someone who was giving decent and honest advice, I have to wonder just why you eventually left Werner. Could it be your lack of professionalism and self-control? You could have done 5 minutes research on Werner/DMI and learned all you needed to know right on the internet. You could have taken a few minutes to talk to other Werner/DMI drivers, and gotten a realistic view of the company BEFORE applying. My experience with them, other than the discrimination I faced, was actually very positive, safe, and financially rewarding (averaged $48k after taxes annually and consistently). My dispatcher backed me up 100%, nearly unheard of in this industry, because I worked hard. I got home when I needed to in nearly every instance (I don't hold them responsible for weaather or breakdowns), and so forth. When I got tired of a one-woman battle to fight the discrimination I faced, I quit and hired on elsewhere the next day. I didn't whine and moan, I just resigned, and on fairly good terms despite the harrassment. Would I work for them again? You bet, just as soon as they can assure me there would be no discriminatory practices, particularly against me. As far as training companies go, they are one of the best and safest in my humble opinion.

You want to be able to take the truck home on your terms, buy your own rig.

Are You Really This Ignorant?

Christopher, I am in no way defending Werner Enterprises. They are one of the biggest dung heaps of this industry, but your complaint is not valid.

Werner is well within their rights to require you to log all miles operating that truck, including the miles to and from home in your logbook. They allow you the luxury of using their truck, pay for the fuel to your home and back to your next load, and you want to be PAID too? If a driver were to express that sentiment to me, I'd suggest that they find their own way to and from home when they wanted time off, and park the truck at the nearest terminal. Problem solved.

I'm also confused. If you weren't getting any miles, then what's the beef with logging time back and forth to your house anyway? Seems to me that you'd have time left over for this, since you were doing so poorly on miles, as you claim.

There are no absolutes in trucking. Freight can be great one week, and slow the next. You learn to roll with it, or choose to moan and groan about it. You seem to embrace the latter a bit too much.

The Federal Government is not in business to regulate private enterprise. In this country, you choose your employment. If you want governmental intervention in your job, I suggest you move to Russia. Oh wait...they don't do that anymore there either.

Look...Werner is known to be a bad place to try and work. You have at your fingertips, a golden opportunity. There are literally hundreds of places to learn about the practices of trucking companies, in order to make wiser selections in your choice of driving jobs. Here's a good place to start:

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/

Now that I've sufficiently criticized you, and before you respond, I suggest you take a minute to think about what I am saying. If you respond to me as you did to the other poster, with venom and name calling, then I and everyone else who reads this, will understand and know that the problem is not Werner.

I laugh at people who can't hold their tongues or fingers. They create their own problems.

Grow up, take responsibility for your choices in life, and go out there and find a job that you will like. It's out there waiting for you.

I was with you until you posted a comeback on someone who was just trying to give advice. Talk about a hypocrite. Your title says "Dont post here unless you are a driver" but then you contradict that with a "freedom of speech" in your quote. So here I am expressing that right. Take it for what you will.

Besides the fact that you cant make up your mind and then decide to warn people because you are in "one of those moods", you need to take a step back and re-evaluate how your job is affecting your life. If my boss decided to screw me on hours (or miles in your case)even once, Id find a new job. Its not as easy as it sounds to find a new job, but its the choice between happiness and job security that you have to make. Oh, by the way, what they are doing is illegal. If you can prove you ran the miles that you have, other than your log book (which can be modified)take that along with your check and sue them for the difference. Maybe it will open some eyes to whats going on. If the only thing you do is b***h about it on this site, prepare to stay miserable.

FUTHERMORE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE OUT THERE YOU LITTLE PETER PUFFER. AND NOT TO MENTION YOU NEED TO BACK OFF NOW, BECAUSE I AM IN WHAT OF THOSE MOODS TO TELL YOU HOW I FEEL SO DON'T GO THERE YOU SORRY S O B. GO F@#* YOURSELF. IT'S FREEDOM OF SPEECH a*****e.

FUTHERMORE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE OUT THERE YOU LITTLE PETER PUFFER. AND NOT TO MENTION YOU NEED TO BACK OFF NOW, BECAUSE I AM IN WHAT OF THOSE MOODS TO TELL YOU HOW I FEEL SO DON'T GO THERE YOU SORRY S O B. GO F@#* YOURSELF. IT'S FREEDOM OF SPEECH a*****e.

FUTHERMORE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE OUT THERE YOU LITTLE PETER PUFFER. AND NOT TO MENTION YOU NEED TO BACK OFF NOW, BECAUSE I AM IN WHAT OF THOSE MOODS TO TELL YOU HOW I FEEL SO DON'T GO THERE YOU SORRY S O B. GO F@#* YOURSELF. IT'S FREEDOM OF SPEECH a*****e.

FUTHERMORE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE OUT THERE YOU LITTLE PETER PUFFER. AND NOT TO MENTION YOU NEED TO BACK OFF NOW, BECAUSE I AM IN WHAT OF THOSE MOODS TO TELL YOU HOW I FEEL SO DON'T GO THERE YOU SORRY S O B. GO F@#* YOURSELF. IT'S FREEDOM OF SPEECH a*****e.

I can not understand why so many CDL-A drivers accept and settle for these kind of working conditions. You have what they need- a CDL-A!! You have no one to blame but yourself for accepting their offer of minimal payment for work!! I cannot beleive that most of you drivers let these companies dictate to you what they will pay you for your services?? You have what they don't have, a CDL-A!! Charge them for it!!!!! Without your CDL-A, they cannot exsist!!!!! So if you want to b***h and moan about the compasation you accept, thats on you-, you have a choice!!!!