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anyone know the current Werner pay rates ?
thanks

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Call 'em and ask them. Talk live with an informative Werner Recruiter
At 1-800-362-3077 or 1-888-487-8257 between 7AM & 6PM CST. BOL

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I drive for Werner, am very satisfied. Be careful as you company shop that you dont judge the company only on their per mile pay rate. Some companies have high pay per mile but you dont get the miles. Others are lower but do get you miles. From my experience so far some of your best milage can come from a company that has good dedicated accounts. These accounts keep you moving and keep the milage up. I noticed alot of 48 state drivers, from all companies, sometimes spend lots of time waiting as truckstops etc. waiting for dispatch to find you a load, and they usually find that load just in time before the layover pay kicks in. (which is usually useless anyway).

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You wouldn't be saying more miles equals more money?

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Lose you Trucker Calculater again?
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For 2003 WERNER'S 10,984 drivers averaged 102,283 miles
For TRAINEES the average pay is
Less than 1 year $0.35
1 Year $0.37
2 Years $0.39
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Werner has several different pay scales for it's varous divisions and dedicated account drivers. Recruiting will emphasize what 48-state solo drivers make, but only 25% of our drivers are 48-state solo (3rd qtr stockholder's report).
The other 75% generall make a little less per mile, but usually do many more miles. Regional vans (western, southeast, midwest) are typically dispatched 10%+ more miles than 48-state drivers. They make a little less per mile, and therefore are cheaper to run the long miles tha 48-state drivers.
New joke at Werner:
"I'm a 48-state shag driver". And that's not too far from the truth sometimes. 48-state drivers tend to get more loads with cross-town surface strteet driving and live load/unload, since they're move expensive per mile when they finally hit the highway. There's a waiting list of experienced 48-state drivers waiting to get into western division for example -- lining-up to earn a little less per mile. But with more miles and easier drop/hook, the final paycheck is about the same and the quality of life is significently better.
When you talk to Werner recruiting, ask them to spell-out the different pay scales for each division you may be interested in. They want to steer you to 48-state because that's where they need drivers, and tend to down-play regional mileage ( I make an annonymous call once in a while to see what they're saying) If you can make hay out of paperless logging and planning your time for maximum production, you can easily make 11,000-12,000 miles per month running regional, random dispatch. I average closer to 13,000, but am fanatical about my time management, etc., and probably operate near the highest possible mileage. Remember -- with paperless logging there is a top limit to how many miles you can drive. You can't rip out pages and make miles disappear. You only get 70-hours each eight days, minus the necessary line-4 time required for fueling, etc. Period. You cannot cheat your drive time.
IF you can get a handle on paperless logging, which means dedicating your entire schedule to what best-matches the highest production available. Werner's regional random dispatch (western, southeast, midwest...) pays prettty good. But managing your time to take advantage of this potential means sometimes running when you otherwise don't fee like it, and generally dedicating your schedule to every possible opportunity to position yourself for your next load match.

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Shufflers another one that has the mind set that more miles equals more money, go figure. Would you take a job that pays $10.00 an hour and gives you 60 hours a week over a job that pays $16.00 an hour and only 35 hours a week? Why take less money per mile and work longer and harder for a few more bucks. Just doesn't make sense. Unless of course you use one of those trucker calculators.
I didn't loose my trucker calculator. I threw it in the fire with the rest of the trash and debris.

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Stuffs said "Shufflers another one that has the mind set that more miles equals more money, go figure"
I dont think that is what Shuffler and I are saying. Its real simple, dont be decieved into thinking that more cents per mile means a bigger pay check at the end of the week. Alot has to do with good dispatching, good time magangement, and productive use of you HOS. (You dont even need your calculator to figure this one out)

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I might add. Dont be deceived into thinking more miles for less money means a bigger paycheck.
But, the top recruiters come from the top training companies. It's a shame that the majority of trainees seem to lean towards Werner, Swift, Schneider and often enough Stevens transport. It would seem if the job is that good they wouldn't be doing so much hiring. I'm sure some one will explain how the 1000's of trainees that those companies spit out each year were all slackers, lazy, not cut out for the job etc. etc..
I think i would take a long hard look at all the companies out there that might be hiring newbies before I bought into the idea that working more for less is a good idea.

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average lenght of haul
drop & hooks
cpm
general hassle involved at the company
fuel policy
toll policy
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take somebody living in eastern TN
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greeneville to el paso dedictaed .30cpm
weekly run 3000 miles
drop & hook both ends
47k for working around 50 hours a week
2 days and 3 nights at home
another company
.40cpm
runs northeast (750 miles to CT from eastern TN)
leave out sunday morning
deliver monday morning in CT. live unload
get reloaded somethime in the afternoon,live load
deliver weds morning live unload back in eastern TN,grab another load to CT for friday delivery,live unload,live reload fight way out of northeast on friday afternoon,drop dead in PA for night,get home saterday afternoon and deliver load monday morning
grab one back ot northeast for weds delviery back in TN for friday delivery and leave out again sunday morning to repeat the above 2 week deal.
same $900 average per week,but your getting less home time and working way the hell more hours a week
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If it was me I would take the ,30cpm el paso run over the .40cpm northeast run
same average weekly money,less work so it pays more per hour and is much easier trucking and better home time
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Well if you want to play the scenario game???
Take the guy from Ft Myers, Fl
Company A pays him .40cpm to run from Immokalee, Fl to Philly.
Picks up monday morning drives 1150 miles to philly drops early Weds.
reloads Philly and delivers early Friday in Tampa,Fl.
Total 2300 miles, $920.
Company B SE Regional pays .32 per mile.
Runs the driver all over the SE for 6 days at 3000 miles.
Pay $960. (less home time but alot more miles, whoopeeee)
I would take the higher paying job in a heart beat. 700 less miles for the same money. More miles doesn't mean more money: (I have a feeling Zigzag already knows that.) wink:

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In that case the philly run beats the regional run hands down
the philly driver will sleep every night also
I wouldn't touch the 3000 mile regional deal at any price
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This isn't hard to figure out Stuffs. Everybody knows the answer....except, apparently for you.
Entry level companies "mine" for the one-in ten (or whatever the number numbers is) driver they can actually turn into decent truck driver. Those who quit, flunk out, not cut out for the job, etc....are exactly that. Not cut out for the job. It wouldn't matter who they trained with or went to work for. They're not a good match for the job and never will be. The newbie companies hire them because that's what the schools turn-out.
The advantage to working for one of these companys is that if you are cut out for the job, they tend to treat you pretty good (relatively speaking) since you shine a whole lot brighter than those they're struggling with.
Stuffs ---- you weren't trained very well, have job-hopped several times, have some strange ideas about how to properly operate the equipment in a safe, logical manner. Look at it this way Stuffs: If you'd started with Swift or Werner or Schneider, they would have bounced you out for being a lazy slacker who's not cut out for the job. The entry level companies serve a worthy purpose in flunking-out so many unfit newbies. Too bad everyone doesn't have to start there. Maybe you would have found some work you liked and were good at.

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Nice try Shuffler but as usual you blame the person and not the truth.
Yep your right the 1000's of newbies spit out by those big companies were all unfit for the job.
I decided to delete what i wrote because Shufflers attitude confirms what I've already said. thanks for the help.