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Will be graduating from school near the end of
March and am wondering if WERNERs Western Region
Division keeps its trucks mainly in the West?
I live in Eastern Washington now and am wondering how the Portland, Oregon Werner Terminal is?
Don't suppose it has the work-out room like the Werner Terminal in Omaha ?
In the snow and ice with chains, but not compensated.

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if you want a truly western region company,why not try gordon trucking?mostly I5,I84,I90,and some I80.
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Would like to go with Gordon, but they rarely hire School Grads, especially in the last year.
Give me miles, miles and more miles.

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Last I heard, they did a pretty good job of keeping the 11 western states regional drivers in the region. You can email Shuffler. I think he runs that regional as a trainer.
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Im not trying to be negitive here however,I wouldnt worry about a 'workout room' chances are you wont be seeing much of it once you get started anyway.You will very seldom have any time in your home terminal for that type of thing.Ive never been to their terminal here in Portland so I cant comment on that.Good luck and drive safe..Mike
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believe me if u want 2 stay out west werner would be more than happy to keep u moving around neveda, oregon, washington, cali and texas alot or werner freight moves from out west then then they swap on to midwest and northeast drivers truck but i don't believe stay in the west would be a problem if u chose werner.
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I've heard they will run a Driver ragged?
Do it in the Snow, packed Snow, Glazed over Snow, Deep
Snow, Crusty Snow, Ice, Black Ice and frosty roads for the same pay as Drivers in warm Climates..

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running ragged pays alot better than sitting in a trashy truckstop waiting for the call.
quit complaining and get out there and get to work and have fun.

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Originally posted by Oden:
I've heard they will run a Driver ragged?
Do it in the Snow, packed Snow, Glazed over Snow, Deep
Snow, Crusty Snow, Ice, Black Ice and frosty roads for the same pay as Drivers in warm Climates..
I don't know if you can call it running ragged, but with the paperless logs, the company knows exactly how much time you have and they will never ask you to run illegal. Seems to me to be the best of both worlds.
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....just got home......on time.....again....
sailtrucker's got it right. A little ragged at times -- you have to sleep every chance you get -- but Werner's "western regional" division gets excellent miles. I've run it almost 4 years now, and I'd never go back to 48-state again -- not with Werner, at least.
The western division gets longer trips, more drop and hook, and it's easier driving with the frequent dashes across the dserts and mountains.
Yes -- we do chains sometimes. It's not a big deal. I'd rather put on my chains, go over the tops of the mountain, take them off again, and be in sunny California by nightfall. To me, that trumps going back east driving long distances in bad weather for days or weeks at a time. The west is in a severe drought, and the last few winters have been pretty easy. Haven't seen snow in 2 weeks. Salt Lake City had the warmest January in history, and the second least snow fall in history -- just a 'trace' on one day....
Werner's mileage pay is a little less out west, but becauseo f this, they leep us loaded with lots of drop/hooks and other high mileage trip segments ---- because it's cheaper per mile to the company.
We get paid a little less, but they give us more miles (and you'll always get your mileage bonus) so it comes out about the same as 48-state wage.
Almost all of Werner's western regional is dispatched out of Phoenix.
At Werner, you STAY OUT OF THE TERMINALS as much as possible to keep your loads on-time and stay available for the good stuff, which they'll gladly give you.....as much as you can legally handle in their Western Regional Division (formerly the Western Eleven Division)...if you're competant and easy to dispatch.
[This message was edited by Shuffler on February 06, 2003 at 19:27.]

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I ran 48 states when I was with Werner. My take on them is they will run you ragged IF YOU ALLOW THEM TO DO SO. If you do "not" allow them to do so you get less miles and I ended up getting sacked for too few miles. There were other legitimate reasons also why I got too few miles but the fleet supervisor did not seem to care why.

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"...I ran 48 states when I was with Werner. My take on them is they will run you ragged IF YOU ALLOW THEM TO DO SO. If you do "not" allow them to do so you get less miles ..."
Got that right. I guess, that's what running OTR for mileage pay is all about. Miles.
Werner never disguises the fact they're hiring you to work. One way or the other, you're constantly responsible for the truck and it's load anyway. You never stop working -- and that includes driving, sleeping, eating and everything in between. There isn't much time for anything else.
Why keep score? If you're going to be a poor, abused, underpaid/overworked company driver -- be a good one!
Work your a** off and make some money.

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From The Slip Seat Diaries
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I used the Ben Franklin Motel bus stop for a ride into Omaha on the 2nd OMA trip. Always an interesting place since it's mainly the housing for Werner Trucking company new hires and trainees. Or the last stop for guys being fired.
My waiting game companion was Jim - in the latter category. Jim had just been summoned to the Werner terminal - he thought it might be a discipline matter and it was indeed - he was fired on the spot for log book violations. Repeated and long term. Jim was pretty upbeat about it - almost giddy in fact. Seems he'd found a way around Werner's paperless log keeping and Qualcom satellite communications. It was a sweet workaround for him for about six months. Not sure what he did but he'd learned to make his truck "disappear" so he could run over the legal hours and in turn make a lot of money.
I mentioned to him that I nearly always run into other guys on the buses who've just left a trucking company for one reason or another. Immediately after we boarded the eastbound bus he was relating his story again and no kidding but the guy across the aisle had just been fired from US Express. He was similarly giddy and both of them seemed quite pleased. The 2nd guy said this was the 4th time he'd been fired by the same company and fully anticipated that in a few weeks they'd call and ask him to come back. Such is the world of OTR trucking, tremendous turnover - easy to change companies and get another job - Jim already had one lined up in Fulton MO - and for the companies constant recruiting and training.
One more followup note - on the bus out of Omana later that evening - yet another guy showed up - also just fired from Werner and for the exact same reason - the "disappearing truck" trick on the Qualcom. Guess maybe Werner just got onto them. Makes me wonder how many guys had passed the technique on to other guys and how many are being fired this week.

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There are any number of ways to disable the QualComm.
Unplugging one of the connections to the outdoor transponder, or cutting it's 12-volt power are common.
Don't think these guys were doing anything very sophiscated. He might have simply covered the transponder with aluminum foil.
These guys don't have a clue. They triger all sorts of red-lights when their truck reports it's been tampered with, or the log computer can't account for the miles it's moved.
Of course they get fired.
It's the thinning of the herd -- getting rid of the REALLY stupid ones, or at least the ones who aren't going to put up with the system and it's rules and don't mind getting fired.
Kind of like retail clerks who get caught on security cameras stealing money from the drawer. They get identified and fired pretty quick, I think.
Werner watches 8,000 trucks and they knows exatly how they should look in the computer.
These guys think they're being original and clever. Sheeeesh.... If you wanted to cheat your logs to make extra money, wouldn't Werner be the LAST company you'd consider. They're lucky the company even gives them a shuttle van ride to the bus station. If it were my decision, I'd just put them on the stret and make them hitchike.

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Thinking about Werner over Swift, Shuffler makes Werner look like my kind of Company.
Want to stay mainly in the West, with NO New York City or East Coast. Swift doesn't have a Western Region anymore, Wsterners hired drive all 48 plus Canada.
What kind of trannys does Werner use in the Peterbuilts? Freightliners?
Let your dispatcher know who is the real boss!!