James Western Star

-Typical day at work would be pulling a truck or trailer into the shop and troubleshooting and repairing
-I have learned a lot about Detroit, Cummins and Caterpillar engines, after treatment, transmissions and gear terrain, air systems.
-Management was is very poor and un organized
-Hardest part of the job would be finding wiring issues
-The most enjoyable part of the job would be when you get to see your repair successful and the vehicle leave and go back to work

Was a very clicky environment.  If you were in the in group I imagine it was a great place to work, but I wasn't.  People would noticeably talk behind my back, I was given the work nobody else wanted, if the wrong supervisor worked I would be told to go clean and not allowed to do my job that I was hired for. Lasted a year and almost had a breakdown from the stress of it all.

meeting with potental truck buyers. Constantly learning, build trucks on computor, learn financing. Manegemt was always helpfull. Great co-workers. Refusing financing was very hard. Most enjoyable was getting the right truck for the customer.

Typical day would be to receive work orders till done and signed off. I learned to do computer diagnostics when the other jobs I did regularly.
Coworker help was very good to include tool lending if I did not own one. The hardest part of the job was the very fast pace of time demands for completing each job.

Answer phones, invoicing,deposit, sort mail, post payables and check receivables 
Management was wonderful 
Hardest part was calling customers for payment ( receivables)
Enjoyed data entry and invoicing

pretty good company to work at, great apprenticeship program, however no room to advance past the point of the apprenticeship, pretty good management team,

I found no downside to working at JWS. The management/employee’s are very welcoming to new staff. I was sad to leave because I really felt like part of the James Western Star “family”.

Good work experience, but employees are difficult to work with. High turn over. Get your work arrangements in writing when you get hired.
Parts often in short supply.

It was a great place to work very fast pace  and very fun and friendly faces all around great place for someone who wants to get in to the heavy dutie industry

Although this job requires you to deal with the public it is a pretty good place to work. Not the highest paying but treated fairly and good employees.

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