Comments By Brian

I have been with Werner for 13 months, they would want/expect you to do the right thing with regards to CR England.......I too am switching from Werner to a new company, and the new company told me that a position is available after I have completed my disposition of my truck, and I haven't given my notice yet.

Truckers Path, gives you updates on scales, parking availability at rest area's & truck stops, driver's update the info, so it's pretty accurate, has a lot of other features also

I am just getting back into trucking myself. Back then I always informed them that I would be leaving when I knew something and some even after a year or so would call to check in on me and ask if I would be interested in coming back. It's always nice to not burn a bridge, but somethings it happens. When I left Prime I'm sure they were not happy with me, but have never had a company(dispatcher) do what they did to me and then sending me a survey and the last question being along the lines of what could we do to get you to reconsider or something like that, sure I could have talked with the upper management and thats why I have always disliked the bigger company's, but anyway always give the 2 week notice and give them 2 weeks, I don't know what you mean by treating the driver poorly, but that has not happened to me when I gave one. Sure, I was going to be leaving in two weeks and some didn't run me as hard and some kept running me hard up until that point.

I have heard of companies being upset and telling you your done immediately, having you turn a truck in at the farthest terminal from your home, etc

I am liked by my fleet manager, and want to be sure I approach this property not to upset them.

I wouldn't think of any other way, 2 weeks notice is not the question, for sure I will give them proper notice, my concern from things I've read in the past is companies have gotten angry and treated drivers poorly upon learning of the drivers intent to quit.

I had that happen to me also on my 30 minute break, but I didn't manually switch lines, I just started dring and it defaulted and took my break away, so now I approved my logs after my 30 minute to be sure it won't take it away

I have accepted a local Target dedicated position with Ruan, which will pay me much more, get me home every night, and not sure how to tell present company this.......... I will do the right thing and return my truck to a terminal, etc. Just wondering how a company like Werner will take the news.

Will they be upset, or are companies understanding? When is it best to tell them......right away.....or after I'm home, while mid trip, or just coming off home time?

I've been having the issues also, but I found that you have to log a minimum of 5 minutes on off duty for it to stick, otherwise when you start moving, it defaults to driving for all time.

Did it to me this morning after my 15 minute pretrip, I went off duty for 3 minutes, then swithed to the driving line, it counted my 3 minutes off duty as driving also

I'm into my 1st year with Werner, and to date my gross is 44k, I am at .35 cpm, with a 2 cent bonus for all miles if I run over 10,000 miles per month. I will also receive 1/2 cent per mile bonus on December 19 (date I got my truck, and went solo) for all accident free miles driven the previous year. So I estimate I should make nearly 48k my 1st year

I told my Dr that I was driving otr and she changed my BP prescription to a 3 month supply, I camp out over night at Wal-Mart regularly, and have gotten refills in Illinois & So Dakota.

Make sure you ask your recruiter at Werner about your accident, when I went through orientation last year, several people were sent home for not reporting things ..... tickets, accident, failed wiz quiz etc

678 in just under 11 hours, but I am governed down to 65mph, but do take advantage of the down hill momentum!