Werner Review, My Final Days

People always ask about choosing a company starting out, just wanted to post my experiences with Werner over the past 15 months

I chose Werner because of the opportunities they offered in the dedicated account division. I started on the Wal-Mart account and hated the multiple stop, multi-zone reefer. I told them I was unhappy, and days later I was able to transfer to the 3M account.

I have been on the 3M for a year, and have really enjoyed the experience. I get an average of 3000 miles per week, and my loads are 95% drop & hook. I would have a preassigned load set up before i was finished with my current load, very very rare to sit waiting for a load. Pay is very good starting out at .35cpm, and if you run over 10,000 miles a month, you get a .02 cpm bonus for all miles driven that month.

I was fortunate enough to receive 2 driver of the month awards during the year, which I was really surprised about. I didn't do anything special in my eyes, I went where I was told, got there on time, and never complained.

Home time was a couple days after being out 10-14 days at a time, any home time requests, were always honored. You also had the option of being home weekly, but of course your miles would be less

I am moving on to a local dedicated job, I will still drive an average of 500 miles per day, but will be able to sleep in my own bed, and eat home cooking!

Bottom line, I would go back if things don't work out with my new adventure.

Thanks for the post Brian.......I am going to school in March and not sure which company to start with, I kinda want to do the flat bed thing but I will decide when I graduate again thanks for the info

I'm planning on going to Werner. I'm hoping that by this time next month I'll be in Omaha for orientation. I do my road test is in two days and then I'll have additional training at school. By Friday afternoon, I should know when my last day of school will be. So excited is putting it mildly.

Thans for sharing your experience. Werner is one of my top three choices once I am licensed. I would be based out of Southern Ontario, so not sure which way the loads would be going, hopefully the southern USA! Not a fan of Canadian winters :(

Thanks for posting this! My first choice is Prime, which I'm going to do what I can to get in with them, but my fall back choices are Werner and Roehl. This was excellent information. Good luck!

I would be based out of Southern Ontario, so not sure which way the loads would be going, hopefully the southern USA! Not a fan of Canadian winters :(

Ooooh, but you have Smoke's Poutinerie and Tim Horton's. I'll trade you locations.