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Started with Werner at the end of February '09. For your orientation they shove you into a room, with some other driver you don't know, at the "luxurious" hotel they use in Lakeland. You get breakfast both days....toast or muffin or bagel and juice, just watch out for the roach ***. You get picked up in the company shuttle..."broken down van"....by the injured driver..."smelled like Old Milwaukee"... who as been with the company all of 6 weeks. Spend 12 hours filling out paperwork and taking *** little tests and listening to a woman who was a "long time driver who wanted to help teach the new drivers"....***!!! You also get a little sales pitch from the fleet sales guy, just so they can try and *** a little more. Reminded me of a gangster film...."what a grese ball".

They give you and the other 20 or so drivers lunch...."2" slices of pizza and nothing to drink. You get to fight for a seat on the van back to the hotel and do it all over again the second day.

If you are lucky, like me, your trainer will call the second night. If not you could be at the hotel for a while....at least a week waiting to be picked up.

I went in on a Monday and was picked up 6 am Wednesday to head out. My trainer was nice enough and had been driving for ten years. I drove all day every day and completed the 300+ hours in a little over a month. Problem was, he was a dedicated driver and was home every weekend and I was stuck in a hotel on the weekend....which Werner stopped paying for the last week I was out.

I showered every day and I ate every day and didn't have any problems with the trainer...I'm one of the few like that. One of the guys I was in cdl training with started 2 weeks before me and was still about 50 hours shy when I finished. He has since gone through 3 partners. My trainer has since quit and a woman I was in cdl training with was kicked out of her truck in Arizona and left there for 2 weeks in a hotel....by WERNER!!!!!.... before she was picked up by a new trainer.

The best part of all this, I was told they were not testing when I finished training and that I would have to go out another 6 weeks with a new trainer.

They tell everyone the same thing. And yes, they have brand new units in Dallas, Atlanta and Omaha.

I told them to kiss my *** and give me a truck. Still haven't heard from them and its been 3 months. I'm not holding my breath over it either. I know a guy who drove for Werner for over a year. He got laid off in January and then they hired a new boatload of drivers....if I had known, I wouldn't have bothered, and neither should you. They get funding from the government to train you and they want to pay a daily rate and pocket the rest, why oh why didn't I think of that?

Don't bother with COVENANT or SWIFT either. Both of them run the same way. As a matter of fact, Swift was investigated by the DOT for having drivers who didn't pass their driving exams....gotta love it. You know Swift does stand for...Shore Wish I Finished Training.

!!!!!!!!!!DO NOT SIGN ON WITH WERNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats as simple as I can put it. Just look at the other reviews. We can't all be wrong.

Location: Deland, Florida

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well *** then who are us the new guys suppose to work for???

Guest

well to make any money for werner you got to work a little harder then just seat on your *** and drive, i been working for werner for 4 years and i make 60,000 or more my frist year i made 52,000 i dont drive *** trucks i have a 2006 pete 387 that looks brand new best looking truck in the fleet

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That's cuz ur n ***...n have no life ....u know for urself werner is a joke..it treats there drivers like craps....

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absolutely. This company shows no respect for drivers.

Treat drivers like ***. I

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IS SWIFT A GOOD COMPANY THAN WERNER

Guest

I have never seen a sadder bunch of illiterate rednecks in my life. I have noticed that it's always the driving school rejects who post complaints about Werner.

You either have what it takes to be a professional driver or you don't!

If you can't even spell basic words correctly, what makes you think your entitled to make $50,000 a year? What a joke!

Guest

My husband woeks for werner...They are a peice of ****.My husband check if messed up everytime in then they fix the next week whf we suppose to do the week you messed up tell the landlady o sry they messed up ...don't work like that...I hate werner..They SUCK....

Guest

i started with werner got finished broke for christmas they were suppose to pay my way home and i ended up doing that some people got bad trainers dumped in the middle of no where had to hitch hike to a town to get a ride back i had a million mile driver as my trainer great guy we are still friends he told me that to work for another company the problem is that werner him self dont run the company its incorperated i think his kids run it they were drug users the owner ciecel werner is pretty much retired he is not a bad guy its the *** that runs the show that is

Guest

i,too worked for werner twice! the first time i worked 18 months,2003-**** quit over dispute about hrs in a day cab on a sat.!Out of work for 2 yrs went back in 2007-**** terminated for exiting safety lane till this day doorway has not been fixed i was let go i think for personal reasons (jim chubbs terminal ***)springfield terminal it's no wonder they have such a turnover of drivers i would see this every week the personel are a bunch idiots from safety to the shop except for a noted few who at least cared but there probably not working there anyway ,so please DO NOT APPLY WITH WERNER!

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