WERNER TOLD TO TURN MY TRUCK IN 1000 MILES FROM MY HOME, WHEN I REFUSED ripoff OMAHA Nebraska

1st off did you really think they was going to let you drive all the way home with thier equipment after you out right refused to take a load. no company would do that. i have work for several and any time i had to quit i was never allowed to go home 1st just to off load my stuff i had to bring the truck home to a terminal 1st and turn it in and unload everything.

You got "jacked" 20 YEARS AGO in NYC? That's the reason you TOLD THEM YOU WOULD NOT DO NYC. You refused a load. That just about equates to quitting.

I am a former employee with tales from the dark side of werner...and...and...and...of my own. They are ALL the same people! Just like in the 'good ol days', 'it's all about the Benjamins'.

They ALL will run you into the dirt, did then...do now. But NYC was a LOT easier with less than 58 feet of truck and 8 feet or less width. Even I would not take one these shiny new trucks in there today! you're running what 70+ feet of truck at more than 9 feet of width (mirrors) down streets and negotiating routes set in stone when they used HORSES to pull their wagons!

I could not imagine pulling a 53 foot long box pulled by a conventional tractor of ANY kind down those streets that used to cause me anxiety 'shakes' back in my day when we drove "NORMAL" sized trucks!

And YES, it was quite common to be 'JACKED' and lose a goodly portion of the load as you negotiated your way out to the island markets. You stop for a light, a street thug runs up and jumps your tank step you look over and down the barrel of a weapon and he says "just keep drive'n mack..." then you see your rear doors fly open at the next light and then it would seem the everybody on the block would 'help' offload you as you drove. NOPE, I won't do NYC or any OTHER east coast city anymore

Daniel,

I have many years experience OTR and have run all 48 states and Canada, and I can tell you with certainty that you cannot AVERAGE more than 12,000 miles per month LEGALLY as a solo driver. Especially with Werner and the electronic logs and automated shutdown they use. This is taking into consideration your statement of running in NH which indicates New England states being run.

The math simply does not add up.

If you max out your legal driving hours each day, you run out of legal hours on the 5th day. Based on there being 4.33 weeks in a month, that is only 20* days per month you can legally run.

12000 miles divided by 4.33 weeks = 2771 miles per week divided by 5 days = 554 miles per day. With the 14 allowable hours on duty time, the most you will ever get is 10 hours per day actually driving when taking into consideration fuel stops, tolls, scales, meals, traffic, etc.. That means you are AVERAGING 55.4 MPH if you drove continuously for those 10 hours.

It simply does not happen, especially if you are running the New England states at all. I could barely average that running the southwest!

And, the other contributor was correct. You basically quit when you refused to run NYC. As an employee, that is refusal to work. That will disqualify you from getting unemployment! And, they will put a mark on your DAC for job and/or equipment abandonment.

Running NYC with Werner is NOT optional. Where did you get the idea you could just refuse? What were you thinking?

Let's see...I drive an average of 50mph 10 hours a day. OK. That is 500 miles a day which is well within DOT limits.....being one can drive legally for 11 hours within a 14 hour period. I have 70 hours in an 8 day period to work with here. Ten hours a day times 5 days would mean I still have 20 hours to drive within this 7 day week...ok...let drive them but of course deduct a few hours for pretrips, fuel all that junk a driver must log on duty not driving, so on the 7th day I only drive 5 hours. Now,,,,that is 6 days times 500 miles...hmmmm 6x500 is (scratching head) oh 3000 plus the additional 5 hours on the 7th day...that is another 250 miles for a grand total of 3250 in a 7 day period legally. Now I must take a day off to pick up some hours. That would account for the 8th day to rest. At midnight of the 9th day I just picked up 10 hours to run and will pick up 10 hours each night until the 7th day. I dont know how long or if you have ever drove Steve but 3000 a week or 12000 a month is very do-able because I have done it all over the country.

I re-read your post and definately can see you are not a driver. Of course I have read many of your rebuttals and just had to finally post after you because your are full of yourself. Run out of hours in 5 days? How much time does crossing a scale take? How much time for fuel? How much time to eat? I did my math the simple way of 30 days in a month....hmmmm that would be 28 days in 4 weeks which is commonly considered a month. I have driven over 12000 miles in a month legally and have taught log classes. I am sure you will have a rebuttal to this which I look forward to reading, but ask a professional driver about how many miles can be attained in a month and you will find your answer....dont use GW math.