Werner Enterprises Reviews

Pros

very nice and relaxed atmosphere

Cons

long hours that are required each day along with low industry pay.

Advice to Senior Management

pay employees more

Pros

Non-stressful work environment. Not exactly a corporate office feel.

Cons

Your benefits package really needs improvement.

Advice to Senior Management

Review your benefits for the white collar workers. You're not just a blue collar worker company anymore.

Also, it's 2011 do you really think "corporate retreats" are appropriate?

Pros

Good training process if you get lucky with the first trainer or run through a million different ones until you find the right one. Dispatch not strict about a driver's decision to change a given route. Dispatch may not give you good answers to questions, but at least they answer the d*** phone. Friendly people at the terminals unless you go into the mechanics garage.

Cons

Extreme misinformation between recruiter and potential employee as far as pay for Family Dollar. Student driver managers virtually have no purpose in the area of getting anything useful done.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of that Family Dollar NONSENSE and get people miles so they can bring some real money home on the weekend. Don't fill peoples ear with junk just to get them to drive for your company. Thats why your turnover rate is sky high.

Pros

Good place to start at to learn how if you get a good trainer. If your a lucky one you'll be happy in training. If you get a dedicated lane you'll get lots of miles. If your willing to become a trainer wich they ask some people only six mounths out of trucking school "no joke" you'll get lots of miles and prioity over other solo's

Cons

top don't know what the middle are doing to the heart of the company aka the drivers, bogus feul lautry bonus, night and weekend dispatch are clueless how to manage drivers, some of the terminals are slopy "and thats being nice", terminal shops have poorly skilled mechanics, its better to get your truck fixed at a out of network shop when you can get autherized to get it fixed, home time can be a battle for alot of drivers, recruters lie to your face about everything ex-all trucks have less then 350k miles lie -all trucks have apu's lie -70% of all our drivers get home weekly or nightly lie -you get to choose your truck lie -and if your told the sliding pay scale is great lie!!!!

Advice to Senior Management

do yourselfs a favor and get it right drivers are the heart of your company not slave labor

Pros

Smart colleagues, Easy atmosphere, friendly people, Excellent top management, Easy to get things done if you know people, very supportive HR.

Cons

Poor middle management, Clueless how to handle employees and they hide stuff from the top management. They work for themselves.

Advice to Senior Management

Please fire the middle management. They are brining the company down. It is not far before the company is going to flush out like a toilet if the middle management stays.

Pros

the equipment was a pleasure to drive .
hometime was ok on dedicated routes.
dispatchers did their job on a consistant basis
lots of miles
there were ways to cheat e logs

Cons

the equipment broke down alot when they find out you can go into canada guess where gonna be stuck going to

Advice to Senior Management

when a driver requests not to go to canada dont force them hire better mechanics that know what they are doing

Pros

Training is where you will find the money at Werner because you get paid for every mile your student drives in addition to your own driving. So basically you are receiving the pay of a team all for yourself while Werner pays your student a separate small weekly salary.

Cons

If you just want to run single I would suggest looking elsewhere. Almost anyone else will offer you better pay and miles because Werner favors their training teams over everyone else. Benefits are comparable to everyone else.

Advice to Senior Management

Please improve the response times of the driver support staff, especially over the weekend. Your drivers are out there 24/7. It gets old hearing about "short staffing" all the time.

Pros

Great tools given to start a career.

Cons

Lack of promotions within of qualified individuals.

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

Lots of account, good benefits, pay can b good if on right account n dispatch. Nationwide fuel network decent equipment

Cons

Werner does not pay well for experience. Dispatchers can b idiots. Too big of a company n makes u feel like just a number

Advice to Senior Management

Run the company how CL did. All the vets I talk to say werner was a very good company when pops was in charge

Pros

they do nice things like bring in lunch and have casual days. Gym, store, great cafeteria. People are very nice.

Cons

Hard to get your foot in the door and then be promoted within.

Advice to Senior Management

look more for talent within the organization