Any info on James J Williams? (tankers Spokane area)

What all ya wanna know? Ive been there 5 years plan on staying quite a while.

 

I’m living in Spokane now. I see them around quite a bit. Good equipment. They sent me insurance info but it was a little too much to cover the family.

 

The pay is close. Its a mileage based system so the harder ya wanna run the more miles/money you can make. There is different base wages between the two terminals, with Longview being the higher of the two but also higher cost of living on the westside of Washington, runs are longer out of Spokane though. There are remote yard, in Vancouver, Aberdeen, Kent and Anacortes Wa that are run out of the longview office and a yard in Pasco thats run out of the Spokane office. Its pretty much strictly chemical tankers out of the Longview office and mostly short 2-300 mile runs, Spokane has chemical tankers, pneumatic tankers, and hoppers. We run strictly in the northwest and run heavy at 105,500 gross. Not sure on the insurance cost as Im just a single guy so get just the bare minimum. I stay out all week and reset at home for my 34hr. Maintance is pretty good, everyone in both offices knows me by name. Ive chosen to run hard and my pay reflects that. We do have drivers that like being home more often as well.

 

We have almost exclusively dedicated customers so its pretty consistent BUT we do service food/ag/paper industries so there is a constant up and down with the economy but pretty steady year round. Im on track for 100,000 miles this year and never go more the 500 miles in one direction from Spokane and home every weekend. Most Spokane drivers are able to be home about every other night if you wanna be. Longview driver are home most every night.

 

Do you have to chain up a lot?

 

It kinda depends. We are expected to chain sense its the northwest and all and dispatch does understand things can get dicy but most of the time the road departments will shut things down before it gets to bad.