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Originally Posted by classicxl
bent and beat up trucks? Both these companies buy new trucks every year to replace the fleet. I drove for werner before becoming an O/O and never had a bad truck or a truck over 2 years old so I dont understand that comment of bent and beat up trucks. Every trucking company has there bad equipment and bad drivers
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I have had 3 trucks through Werner in the last year..all fairly new and all pre-damaged .....
trk #1. a blk 2004 century class freightliner with 140k on the odometer....
TRUCK HAD BENT RUNNING BOARDS....AND TONS OF CIGARETTE BURNS IN THE INTERIOR...
I had a steer tire blow out comming over I-70 in colorado..I took 3 days off and lost the truck..I did no damage in the blow out..I was very lucky...
off to recover my second TRK..........
TRK # 2...A DARK BLUE T-600 with 40k on the odometer.. abandoned and brought to a wrecker yrd for recovery in Billings Montana.....Damage report ..a bent Wing A chunk missinmg out of the roof..a crack in the bumper....
TRK Number 2 was parked at a T/A I went into the T/A to call the shp to schedule re-loading for over weight issues , and came out to find my truck smacked out of it's parking spot...
onto trk # 3 an abandoned trk set for recovery at a wrecker yrd in Madison Wisconsin.........
TRK#3...A BLACK 06 CENTURY with 30,050 on the odometer.....
Damage report ....2 Bent wings...one badly bent at the very top by the Qual-com dome......And a hand full of cigarette burns in the interior....
Werner / Swift may buy new trucks every year.....But they are handed to new drivers that for some reason can't stop twisting the truck beyond 90 degrees...or just have real poor depth perception and run into things A-LOT.....
MY 3 TRKS IS WHERE I BASE MY STATEMENT.................
