Werner Enterprises reviews

3.2

54% would recommend to a friend

(1,489 total reviews)
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Derek Leathers

58% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Werner Enterprises has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,489 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Werner Enterprises employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Jul 19, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Nice Clean Terminals, Nice Showers, Plenty Good Management, Net Opps

Cons

The pay is horrible! Werner is lowest pay in the industry! They put a bad dac report on me because i resigned ...after pulling there freight over a year! I made 17000 dollars with werner in one year... Yes sitting and dead head miles including crappy runs is part of the business ( 21 1/2 cents a mile ) What can you expect? Thats the reason i left... I used them for experience and left This company is 90 percent students and people with less than a year experience .. and 10 percent are the trainers and they have 1-5 year otr experience.

3.0
Feb 22, 2014

good starter company

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

they will take you right out of school with no experience. Lots of miles if you are willing to work for them. the will always reimburse you for truck purchases.

Cons

night time dispatch, weekend dispatch, breakdown procedures.

2.0
Feb 20, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are some long-term people who have accrued a wealth of knowledge and are willing to help you out and learn. There is some degree of interdepartmental collaboration when getting things done that fosters a sense of team-work and quid pro quo for getting things done. Standard benefits package and PTO when you accrue it.The opportunity to have a job rather than nothing is of course appreciated, and it is stable enough as long as, like anywhere I suppose, you learn, perform well and contribute. A few of the higher-level managers in the company have some good ideas and experience.

Cons

Directors are indifferent to all needs but their own. In VAS, one is a micro-managing annoyance, one is out of touch with his employees except for his pals who bull-poop in his office (and he doesn't acknowledge the minions nor wants to), another is a pompous donkey rear-end who gets overly worked up and shows little respect for a select few, and the other is the same as the previously described one except more donkey rear-end. One person was hired directly into a sup position which irked quite a few people in other areas, especially when hired just a few months before someone else with more extensive managerial experience, and a higher education with a grad degree from a respected, AACSB accredited university...but the person hired is prettier (and there are more than one of those)...but diversity quotas must be met I assume. Inadequate pay for most positions, and rising through the ranks, unless you are a crony, will take some time. Usual bureaucratic redtape and bullpoop. No COL raises either, so to keep up with and surpass inflation, you had better have a spouse with a better job that DOES, or learn to love bartending or stocking groceries at night. Rather opaque unless, again, you are in the "buddy system" with the "in" crowd.

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