COVENANT OR WERNER

[bigdaddyCCMJ]

I have been with covenant now for 4 months. I will admit to anyone coming over or looking to come over needs to look at it as if they dont have 3 months experince then you are going to make 250-450 a week. I went in with experince and I make .38 a mile, 2950 miles a week average. I am a solo driver whos on a regional board. But you know all companies have there down falls. This one has just a few more than others.

[Drew10]

BMiller worte:

I have heard that Werner keeps their dispatchers behind bullet proof glass

Dont know how true that is, unfortunatly I dont get through Omaha. Im
sure they are in a seperate room in the terminal. If I ran a company
this large I dont think Id want drivers milling about with the dispatchers, it
could be very distracting. I have heard though that when you are in
Omaha you can meet with your dispatcher face to face.


My dispatcher and load planner are at the same location as the
distribution center for the account I drive on. We are able to mingle sit
and talk, etc. I rarely ever need to go to a Werner terminal as my
dispatcher is also able to take care of most adminstrative needs of his
drivers. My dispatch knows my name, (doesnt need my employ #).Even
when I call him on the phone, he recognizes me by voice.

Tractor service and maintence is all done over the road, (in fact dispatch
use's all means necessary to keep us out of terminals. The account has
about 40 drivers/trucks assigned. Its almost like a small mom and pop
company within a mega company.

I still dont know who picked those depressing blue colors for their tractors. Looks like the color of prison walls.

Dont know. I know CL Werner chose those colors very early in the
company history. But, Im sure you have noticed that the tractors have
been ordered with various colors. Some look really good, some dont. I
know this is mainly for resale ablility of the tractor.


bigdaddy wrote:

But you know all companies have there down falls

I couldnt agree more, big or small companies, Its hard to keep
everybody happy.
If you talk to an X amount of drivers from any large or mega carrier, you
will probably get more negative returns about their company than
positive.
Whenever anybody asks me about Werner, I try to focus mostly on the
positives. The longer you stay with a company, you learn how to adapt
to the operation of the company, and the easier it is to work with them. I
gotta tell you though, once in a while Werner gives me fits in some
areas, but Ive adapted. When the turn over rates are as high as they
are, drivers dont stick around enough to start to see positives. 1 year
wont do it in most circumstances.
No company is just going to hand you a bed of roses on a silver platter.
You must first show them that you deserve it.
Run hard, dont pitch a fit, and keep you nose clean. It will pay big
dividends later.

[keeso]

I've been at Covenant one month on the team side and just can't take it anymore. I have been getting 300 to 500 dollar paychecks every week. This past week we only pulled 3,500 miles team. My codriver is leaving too. They deadheaded us 700 miles and did not pay us for it. When we asked about it, they said we had to request it at the time we recieved the assignment on the qualcom. They robbed us of those miles. We just sat at a meat plans for 2 days with no detention pay, only to carry the load 1400 miles with 4 stops spread out over 4 days. That is a solo load, not a team load. One side doesn't know what the other is doing. Communicatin is horrible at this company. Dispatchers ignore you and don't get back to you. They don't care about their drivers and they are losing them left and right. This company is dieing if they don't do something soon. They are in danger of loosing the grants they get from the government to train students. I've seen them let drivers go for no reason other than they spoke up about something they didn't like. This company doesn't like those who stick out of the crowd or think for themselves. If you're out of line they will let you go, plain and simple. Everyone needs to stay away from Covenant. Screw waiting until I get my one year of experience, I'm going ahread and going with Crete even though I have to go out with a trainer. It will be worth it in the long run.

Well now- my 2ed week running team for werner(with Lorraine Ruloph-now a trainer) we did 6996 paid miles...still got the old paystub..yep -we were on 'team werner' our 2ed week LOL...found my paystub for my 13th week with Werner..(back solo- Lorraine ruptured a disc) Kick ass week including a run from Jacksonvill AR. to Grants Pass Oregon...4234 paid miles. It helped I could (and did) trick the electronic logs...but their damn macro 46 caught up with me...

[driver67373]

I've been at Covenant one month on the team side and just can't take it anymore. I have been getting 300 to 500 dollar paychecks every week. This past week we only pulled 3,500 miles team. My codriver is leaving too. They deadheaded us 700 miles and did not pay us for it. When we asked about it, they said we had to request it at the time we recieved the assignment on the qualcom. They robbed us of those miles. We just sat at a meat plans for 2 days with no detention pay, only to carry the load 1400 miles with 4 stops spread out over 4 days. That is a solo load, not a team load. One side doesn't know what the other is doing. Communicatin is horrible at this company. Dispatchers ignore you and don't get back to you. They don't care about their drivers and they are losing them left and right. This company is dieing if they don't do something soon. They are in danger of loosing the grants they get from the government to train students. I've seen them let drivers go for no reason other than they spoke up about something they didn't like. This company doesn't like those who stick out of the crowd or think for themselves. If you're out of line they will let you go, plain and simple. Everyone needs to stay away from Covenant. Screw waiting until I get my one year of experience, I'm going ahread and going with Crete even though I have to go out with a trainer. It will be worth it in the long run.

Well now- my 2ed week running team for werner(with Lorraine Ruloph-now a trainer) we did 6996 paid miles...still got the old paystub..yep -we were on 'team werner' our 2ed week LOL...found my paystub for my 13th week with Werner..(back solo- Lorraine ruptured a disc) Kick ass week including a run from Jacksonvill AR. to Grants Pass Oregon...4234 paid miles. It helped I could (and did) trick the electronic logs...but their damn macro 46 caught up with me...

I live near Jacksonville, AR...just curious, where did you pick up at?

[fireman932003]

Well now- my 2ed week running team for werner(with Lorraine Ruloph-now a trainer) we did 6996 paid miles...still got the old paystub..yep -we were on 'team werner' our 2ed week LOL...found my paystub for my 13th week with Werner..(back solo- Lorraine ruptured a disc) Kick ass week including a run from Jacksonvill AR. to Grants Pass Oregon...4234 paid miles. It helped I could (and did) trick the electronic logs...but their damn macro 46 caught up with me...

Thats good that things are working out for you at Werner. Like I said before, my first time around was good for me as well. It wasn't till I came back the second time that things went south. Maybe it was just my DM. I don't know. I do know that as far as the pay goes, Werner is WAY behind on the times. As far as that macro 46 goes, yes it is a pain!