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Originally Posted by gmh
Everybody around here slags Swift and Werner. I've got no experience with them, but a friend of mine had an awful trainer at Werner. That seems fairly hit or miss at most of the big companies, and something that I won't put up with.
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Swift pays better than werner :wink: ...But what you have to consider about Werner is that after enduring the training period ,and sharing a 6x8 space with some dude ,and only making $325.00wk for your 275 hours training ,which often turns into 300+ before actually get off the trainers truck ...your pay is only going to be .26 cpm if you go 48/canada ..less if regional .,and the average ...non dedictated ...otr driver at werner only makes 1800-2200 miles per week ..some make more Heck I've had a few months of 2700-3000 mile wks , But then a few months of nothing but east coast and 1800 mile weeks ,so you only really average 8500-9000k miles a month ...at .26 CPM...The trainers at Companies like Werner are 99% of the time training ,Because they can't make decent money as a solo ,So they train ,which actually pays less per mile as you lose .02 cPM when you train ,And you get no cash compensation for training ,So your only benefit from training is to run hard ,and treat your student like an experienced driver pushing him to run back 2 back 11 hour cycles ...And this is why most Werner students come out of the 275 hr course and still don't know what way to turn the wheel to back up , as the trainers can't affor to spend the time taking an hour or so at a dock letting the student learn ,So the student ,becomes a very efficient sterring wheel holder on major highways and interstates where they pretty much just keep the truck between the lines for about 500 miles in a straight line maybe changing 1 or twice from one highway to the next .
Going back with CRETE.................
Hope to get things squared away to head out in early February.
