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CDL truck driving jobs in Oregon
We hire CDL-A drivers and owner operators who live in Oregon — Portland, Salem, Eugene and anywhere else in the state. 48-state freight, run by a 12-year family carrier that pays honestly and answers the phone.
- Owner-op split
- 90%
- Company / mile
- $0.63
- Fuel surcharge
- 100% to you
- Pay cadence
- Weekly
Where you'll run in Oregon
Oregon freight moves on I-5 and I-84, and our flatbed, reefer and dry van loads run all 48 states out of our Kent, WA home yard — so what you run depends on the week and on what you take. Regional drivers get home weekly; OTR runs 2-3 weeks with real route planning, not forced dispatch.
- Flatbed, Reefer, Dry Van — you pick what you're set up for
- Touch level stated on the load before you accept it
- Fuel card with fleet discounts at major stops
- Dispatch that answers — a direct line, not a call center
What we ask
- Valid CDL-A, 2+ years verifiable experience preferred
- Clean-enough MVR — we look at the whole picture, not one ding
- Owner operators: truck in roadworthy shape, we handle the rest
- Live anywhere in Oregon or along our lanes — the freight comes to you
Name, CDL, experience, the lanes you want. Or text us: (206) 765-6300
Know before you haul: the Oregon freight market
Notes from running these lanes ourselves — the markets, the seasons, and the details that change what a week in Oregon actually pays.
Portland
Where I-5 meets I-84 at the Columbia River — the freight crossroads of the Northwest. Port of Portland auto and breakbulk traffic plus the metro's distribution cluster (Swan Island, Rivergate, Troutdale) make it our most common Oregon pickup and delivery market, an easy three-hour run down I-5 from the Kent yard.
Willamette Valley (Salem–Eugene)
Food processing, nursery stock, and wood products the whole length of I-5 between Portland and Eugene. The valley is also the country's biggest grass-seed producer — summer brings steady outbound ag freight on top of the year-round processed-food lanes.
Columbia Gorge & Eastern Oregon (I-84)
Our main eastbound lane out of Portland. Boardman and Hermiston have grown into a real reload market — food processors, cold storage, and the Umatilla-area distribution build-out — before the long climb over Cabbage Hill (Emigrant Hill) into La Grande and on toward Ontario, the onion-and-potato gateway to Idaho's Treasure Valley.
Southern Oregon (Medford–Ashland)
The I-5 pinch point: Siskiyou Summit at the California line is the highest point on the entire interstate (4,310 ft), and winter closures or chain restrictions there back freight up through the whole corridor. Medford itself reloads produce and wood products.
Season by season
- Christmas trees are an Oregon specialty — the state is the nation's number-one producer, and from mid-November into December the Willamette Valley loads out trees by the truckload. A reefer or curtain-side positioned there in late November rarely sits.
- Winter chains: Oregon's chain law is condition-triggered — when ODOT posts the requirement (TripCheck signs), trucks over 26,000 lbs must chain up, and the two places we actually plan around are Siskiyou Summit on I-5 and Cabbage Hill on I-84. Both can flip from bare road to chains-required in an afternoon; we watch TripCheck and time the pass rather than sit in a chain-up line.
Worth knowing
- Oregon is not like other states on fuel tax: heavy trucks pay a weight-mile tax instead of the pump tax, reported per mile run in the state. The office handles the filings — what a driver notices is the Green Light weigh-station preclearance transponders and the state's unusually thorough mileage records.
- Watch your speed split: Oregon posts different limits for trucks and cars on much of its interstate network, with trucks slower. Plan trip times off the truck limit, not the car signs.
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Driving out of Oregon?
Tell us your experience and the lanes you want, or call the Kent, WA office and ask first.