Werner Enterprises reviews

Company compels ALL their drivers to become trainers, when being a trainer requires certain characteristics not all good truck drivers have. Good trainers help you identify and coach you to avoid mistakes; bad trainers (which you get when a company shoehorns those not particularly cut out to be trainers to become trainers anyway) merely yell at you for rookie mistakes without actually constructively helping you avoid them If you're an experienced trucker, you will get shoehorned into training; if you decline, several experienced Werner drivers confirm your dispatcher will reduce your loads and miles Trucks are brand new and delicate; stall once due to skipping a gear = engine light = has to get serviced. Inconceivable a trucking company taking on rookie drivers straight out of CDL school would have such delicate trucks that must be taken to a shop after a single missed-gear stall. Trainers get good CPM while trainees get a weekly salary that, depending on where your home is may be challenging just to pay your rent + bills if you happen to live somewhere that has a high cost of living (San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, etc.). Combining the forced-into-becoming-a-trainer with small salary for trainee with higher CPM for trainer makes it suspiciously easy for a dazed-and-just-figuring-things-out rookie to overlook and not think too hard on their trainer bypassing elog hours-of-service limitations by having the trainer drive on the trainee's credentials, effectively giving them unlimited hours to drive, the trainer gets the CPM pay regardless of whose credentials the truck is moving under, while the trainee only gets a small weekly salary and the trainer doesn't have to spend too much time actually training the trainee. This is what my "trainer" did, and while that's a teeny sampling, I realized in hindsight Werner's culture of forcing experienced truckers to become trainers, and paying Werner's trainers more for all miles driven even if they are on the trainee's credentials makes it easy and profitable to cheat on e-logs.

They guarantee 2,500 miles but sometimes you'll get less They don't care if you need to stop for supplies or to take a shower