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Hey I was told that Werner has cut the US into 1/4's . Is this true, have other companies done this. What I have been told is that you can't go from florida to California you go to Texas drop a load then come back. I guess this question is mainly for team drivers.

Kllm has it broken into areas. 6 or 7 i think. We have one run that goes from miami to seattle. And its a solo run. Just depends on the powers to be in the company i imagine.

That just sounds crazy to me, I would like to see them give me a load that goes from Florida to California or Washington and try to tell me to drop it in a yard so someone else can pick it up. No way! I picked it up, I'm delivering it and taking all the "SWEET!" Miles that come along with it.

My company has the US set up in sections and a load planner assigned to each however we do not drop load in one section for another driver. If you pick a load in Cali and it delivers in MD then thats your load.

Any Werner drivers ????.?.?

Any Werner drivers ????.?.?

PM guyjax

Hmm this is the first I have officially heard of this. I doubt there is much truth in it since I am currently on a run from Pennsylvania to Salt and Lake City UT. Then we pickup a load there going to Los Vegas and pick up a load from there to Jacksonville FL. If they have cut up the US into sections then one of the sections must be pretty big since we only do HVHS loads going across country when we are not pulling ABF sets of doubles.

Here lately we have been doing a lot of 53 foot trailers, have learned to hate them since pulling doubles , that the loads range from $1 mill to as much as $7 mil..

HVHS means High Value High Security loads.

Thank everyone for the responses

Bill, most companies that have teams will not run their solo drivers outside of a certain region very often. Once in a while the Trucking Gods might smile favorably upon you and you'll get to keep a long run. But far more times than not they'll take those long runs and give them to teams. You might haul it part of the way and pass it off to someone else.

I worked for several large dry van carriers over the years and that was always a battle. Many, many times they'd put a California or Arizona run on me from the East Coast and I'd get to St Louis or Dallas or something and have to hand it to someone else. I'm normally a pretty mellow dude but that made me want to take a sledge hammer to the truck. Extremely upsetting. But that's how it goes. It's all about efficiency. Companies are going to try matching their freight with the best trucks to haul it.

And by the way, Guyjax runs team - that's why he's getting long runs all the time.

If you want long runs going coast to coast your best opportunity is with a refrigerated company. They have the most coast to coast freight and their solo drivers will keep some of those long runs. Dry van companies have a lot more shorter runs so they try to keep their solos on the shorter stuff and their teams on the longer stuff.