Quote:
Originally Posted by Jackrabbit379
Quote:
Originally Posted by thebaldeagle655
I've been at Westar 3 months now, the only time I was not home during the weekend, I had a load to deliver in Utah on Monday morning, loaded Wednesday. Home Thursday and Friday, drove Sat and Sun. I still consider that home on the weekend though.
Just make sure that you have somethine else lined up, just in case. I dont see Westar being around too much longer. Best of luck over there.
And why may I ask do you think that? Just because they now have enough drivers to fill their need? Because the owner-operators they had refused to comply with safety regulations and were the primary cause of the bad safety review and had their contracts terminated?
Looks to me like they are indeed growing along the line they have planned, adding 5 new Peterbilt's a month to the fleet, continuing to properly maintain the fleet (if they were in a bind as some have accused with no proof, would they have just spent close to $2000 on my truck for alignment and tires or would they have said, no, wait a bit and let's see what happens?)
Please, if you have something with substance, post it, if you are merely providing lip service due to either getting an owner operator position terminated, or repeating rumors, feel free to contact the company and ask prior to bad mouthing them! Until then, they have treated me with nothing but respect, kept me running 5 good days a week and home weekends. The paycheck I cashed yesterday didn't bounce, and I expect the one next week to be good as well!
Some have said that they have 20 trucks sitting on the yard. I counted yesterday, 9 Volvo's that are slated for Albuquerque, 3 brand new Petes, and 2 Petes that have just been turned in by drivers who have been there for awhile and were upgraded to new ones. Sure, there are other trucks on the yard. They allow us to park there while we are at home either for the weekend or overnight.