Werner Pay So Far....

As most know I run team with Werner with my brother. Doing pretty well I think. Main reason I am making this post cause I know we have a few new people that are thinking of running teams or coming in as a husband/wife team. Well I must say I am a bit surprised but not really at what I have made the first 6 months of the year at Werner for 2014. Since my brother and I get paid the same all you have to do is multiply it by 2 and it's about what a husband/wife team would make with everything going into the same bank account.

Before I get down to numbers I want to preface this with I have 16 years experience and my brother has 5 years experience. Why is this important you might ask. Well once you gain experience you become more effective and efficient at your job. Things go smoother. We don't have to wait around for hours to be told what needs doing. We don't need to ask the same questions that rookies need to do because they maybe unsure of themselves and need direction from their DM.

Also want to add overall teams do more miles than solo drivers do to the fact there are more hours to work with. And teams almost always get the longer runs do to more hours. On average we are doing about 6700 to 7200 miles a week. No restarts. Just recapped hours. The JIT fleet does not believe in restarts unless it's home time. So no need to shutdown for 48 to 60 hours for restart and that all depends on what time you started your restart.

So from January 1st to June 5th these are the basic numbers so far.... Net Pay 06/05/14 =$18,577.27..... Gross Pay 06/05/14 =$27,704.99. So if everything remains the same, no reason they should change, the final numbers should look close to...... Net Pay=$37, 154 Gross Pay= $55, 408 for 1 full year of running teams at Werner. And our busy time is during the holidays pulling UPS trailers all over the country starting right before Thanksgiving.

Now just remember this is our experience at Werner and may not always reflect what is happening with other drivers at this company. But this also shows why experience is so important. It's not just for the driving skills I am talking about. You have to know when to shut your mouth and do the loads you are given even when they are short mileage loads. I have a great dispatcher. He treats us well and we do our job which is delivering the loads on time.

Oh my dispatcher is not all sunshine and Roses. He has his moments, though not with us, that he will put his foot down. I happen to have a senior dispatcher. Once a month all the dm's have to work a weekend. We'll my DM just happens to be the lead DM when he works his weekend. We'll I was having an issue with a customer that was refusing a load though he agree to take it 30 minutes prior to me getting there. But that's another story. And he asked if I could hold for a second. Well I guess his finger missed the hold/mute button cause another dispatcher was having issues with another driver that was crying about getting miles but was refusing to take any loads under 1000 miles. I over heard my DM say "Tell that driver to go get that God damn load(was a 950 mile run btw) or he can get out of his truck and turn his keys in and be escorted off the property and worry about how he would carry all his stuff from his truck."

Turns out that driver was exactly like Abe from YouTube. To keep it clean "lazy". They have had non stop refused loads from this guy for two weeks running.

Wow I seems to went WAY of track here. Back to the topic. Experience and a really good DM and everything is awesome.

Thank you guyjax! I am learning a lot from your posts, I appreciate your info!

Thank you guyjax! I am learning a lot from your posts, I appreciate your info!

Ditto! Thanks Guy!

Tarren