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Originally Posted by Drew10
.02cpm deduction from the trainers milage pay is true, at least for the OTR drivers. (48state). Trainers on my "cushy" account keep their full rate, no deduction.
What gets about those accounts is you have drivers making good money on these accounts ,and if not the money is pretty poor ,And the accounts really aren't given out on ability and senoirty ,but rather just luck ,so you could have 2 drivers get out of training and one could be lucky to be making good money on one of these accounts ,and the other possibly collecting stamps ...But yet Werner expects both drivers to express the same level of dedication to the job/company .
This was my biggest issue at Werner I knew about the good accounts ,and was told I was not eligeable to for them due to my "zip code" When I started I was 11 western ... .15CPM DH /21 ld trips 500 and up ...with many trips from L.A. -SLC or ogden I was at the .21 CPM loaded most of the time and with DH of .15 CPM I was grossing about n .18-.19 CPM getting from 1800-2500 miles a week at less than a .20 CPM average ...And still drove as far east as Georgia and north as canada on the 11 western ...I switched to 48 rather than just throwing up my hands and quiting , but all this did was get me to .28/.28 CPM and running 300 mile runs on the East Coast like a regional driver ,And i lost a good dispatcher that was out of Fontana in the switch ,and got an A$$ hole , and slowly my performance/ attitude went down hill , as did my spotless performance /on time delivery record ...I took a leave in 2006 and decided to give Werner one more try , So I returned with the attitude I was going to make Werner work , And for the first couple months MY DM out of Denver seemed tolerable ,and the trips/miles were decent even got my milage bonus ,But things started to change quickly trip/miles wise , but instead of quiting I decided to try training (very stupid) mainly because the freight sucked and so did the CPM as a trainer making the pay checks not much more than running a flexible paper log at a small company ... I also seemed to haul alot of Office max and Sears /K-MART And Wal-mart freight , but yet couldn't get on those accounts , And when I was talking with drivers fresh into Werner off their trainers truck making good monney ,and higher pay rate than a driver Who was seasoned and driven all lower 48/Canada it just had me to the point where I should have quit instead of hashing things out , As it was obvious that I was never going to make a decent living at Werner , But because I had put in over 2yrs there in this cycle I just couldn't seem to quit , and move on and just kept on with degradation in performance due to a poor attitude ...But like I said if you get into the good accounts Werner offers some of the best pay /equipment ...If not run fast ,and run far .