Told Werner I Woud Do Dollar Gen.

55,000 a year,2 days off a week.I have four freinds that work at Werner they love it.One going on 5 years doing Dollar Gen,The other one is doing Family Dollar.Lot's of negativity about Werner but i'am going with what my freind's tell me about Werner,My goal is to be O/O after my first year and haul local out of my town.Good luck to you,,

Hey Bryan E. what did they tell you your pay would be. I am starting school in 2 weeks then I am seriously thinking abut going to Werner. Just checking what they told me.

Lot's of negativity about Werner but i'am going with what my freind's tell me about Werner

I wouldn't say there is negativity about Werner here on TT. We just advise everyone to use caution and understand what you are getting yourself in to. Any brand of dollar store accounts are not for everyone and could potentially ruin your career with the risk of injury or backing accidents involved if you are not fully aware of what the job description involves.

With pup trailers and single axle gas tractors, these back-ins would be a non-issue. The exact kind of stuff I used to all day long in Denver many years ago. However, you would have to have terminals set up to break down the large shipments and load into the small trailers.

Somebody mentioned having to hand unload all of the freight, etc. We used to pull into the grocery warehouses in Denver and talk about an insane hassle!! Because of their inventory storage systems at the warehouses, we had to breakdown and re-stack every single box from the shippers' pallets onto the warehouse's pallets, use their specific tie pattern and number of layers for each individual product, organize by flavor, variety, etc. You could easily be at the Safeway or King Soopers warehouse most of a day with one pup trailer of freight. Oh, and then, if the receiver had any problem with how you or the pallet looked...he would simply refuse it and you got to start all over again at the beginning!! There were often very heated confrontations over it (but then you were really not going anywhere anytime soon!!) I was never involved in one of those, but I saw a few!! We never hauled any perishables, but soaps and health and beauty aids can come in some really small boxes that take forever to stack and if the boxes are fairly square, the tie patterns still might not be very stable.

I also learned to NEVER leave your keys in the tractor while unloading at one of those warehouses. I was on a dock that was a down ramp to the door one day with an entire load of shampoo in boxes about 8"X 8"X 10". I had been sorting them by color and variety to palletize them properly and had them stacked all up the side walls of the trailer around my work area. I got called to the shipping office for a phone call from my terminal and while I was gone, some jackass decide to pull my truck out and put his in. When I came back, my truck was out in the lot and my load was knocked down all over the trailer!!! If I could have gotten ahold of that guy I would still be in the penitentiary as I would literally have torn him limb from limb!!! *******!!

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And that has to do with questions I have. Is unloading time considered part of your driving time. I hear what they are saying but you don't drive that many miles so how do you get to the paychecks they say you are going to make. I am a little skeptical. I am not afraid to work I just don't like being mislead. If I am going to be away from my wife I am going to work and make money, don't want to sit around. But I am new and not sure how everything is going to work out the way they say.

And that has to do with questions I have. Is unloading time considered part of your driving time. I hear what they are saying but you don't drive that many miles so how do you get to the paychecks they say you are going to make. I am a little skeptical. I am not afraid to work I just don't like being mislead. If I am going to be away from my wife I am going to work and make money, don't want to sit around. But I am new and not sure how everything is going to work out the way they say.

Seems like "How much, and based on what, will I be getting paid," may be a good question for the company. Get things in writing, from the company (not this forum) if you are nervous.

And that has to do with questions I have. Is unloading time considered part of your driving time. I hear what they are saying but you don't drive that many miles so how do you get to the paychecks they say you are going to make. I am a little skeptical. I am not afraid to work I just don't like being mislead. If I am going to be away from my wife I am going to work and make money, don't want to sit around. But I am new and not sure how everything is going to work out the way they say.

You should be skeptical. Unloading is considered on-duty, not driving and over several days time will limit your available drive time as explained in this link:

Learn The Logbook Rules (HOS)

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The issue is not the mileage or the physical labor it's about having limited experience maneuvering a 72' long vehicle in a space designed for automobiles, shopping carts and pedestrians. Money although important, during the first year should take secondary priority to learning how to safely and efficiently operate your truck. The Dollar accounts only exacerbate the difficulty a driver has during the dirst few months of solo driving.

.44 a mile and 160 to unload averaging 3 trailers a week,Family Dollar.My freind say he grosses 1100 a week.

And that has to do with questions I have. Is unloading time considered part of your driving time. I hear what they are saying but you don't drive that many miles so how do you get to the paychecks they say you are going to make. I am a little skeptical. I am not afraid to work I just don't like being mislead. If I am going to be away from my wife I am going to work and make money, don't want to sit around. But I am new and not sure how everything is going to work out the way they say.

Unloading is on duty not driving, but you get paid for unloading time. Your pay on those accounts is a combination of mileage pay, unloading time, and pay per additional stop on the load.