Originally Posted by TruckingPhotographer

As a lease operator you have to remember you are a business owner and you have to be assertive enough to do just that. Central does not own the trucks, The leasing company is not Central it is a totally different company. Should have gone to the leasing company to be leased to another company. You sign two contracts, one is with the leasing company the other is with Central to be leased to them. You are a independant contractor. I took the ATBS Course and it taught a lot about how to run your business, most go into this knowing nothing about how to run their business. If you let your DM RUN you like they are your boss, you have already lost your control of your business. It is your business, and their lawyers are no better than mine. As a L/O I had to have my own legal department. You have to remember you are a owner of a business. My husband runs it that way, he does not wait for the qualcom to give him a load, he is on the phone taking charge looking for a load from the planners. some planners do not like to talk to drivers and if they ever hurt our business I would personally sue them. There job is to work for me, not the other way around. No miles breaks there part of the contract with them. If they even try to force dispatch that breaks the contract. They know what we need for miles, and what he can run legally. They are obligated to do their part as long as he does his. He runs, and does not use them as a tourist guide, he is there to do a job, and running his trucking business is his job. If Central can not supply the miles we can be leased to another company.

Central must have got a totally new CONTRACT in the last 9 months

If you are Leasing your truck through an Independent Leasing company then your situation is totally different then 99.9% of the Lease Ops working for Central, JJ's lease was through Central, it is a 3rd party lease, Central Lease the trucks from Paccar and the Lease Ops lease the same truck from Central Refrigerated hence the third party Lease!

If Central can not supply the miles we can be leased to another company.

JJ's contract states that he cant Lease on with someone else if the miles weren't there, So obviously you have a different contract!

Oh and Chrome is TOTALLY RIGHT about our situation if JJ is Deemed an Employee and not Independent Contractor then Central are legally responsible for Taxes not the Employee.

Originally Posted by Pumpiron2002

I average about 2300 miles per week with Central. I am always preset a load, Of course I contact my DM well before I am ready for a load to make sure they are sending in my info to the trip planners. It is a pretty good company if you want to drive. Of course there are people who fall into the quote "Misery loves company" and are only happy complaining! If you want to run miles and work your hours correctly and keep your DM up to date you will get the miles. I am happy with the miles, if it is snowing I drive! Maybe only 10-20 mph but I am a professional driver and it is my job. The guys that are not successful or are miserable are parking their trucks as much as possible and blaming everyone they can for their own problems!

You know this isn't true at all in all cases! Rhino ran 7,000 miles some wks as a team. He ran as many as he was given, while asking for more, as a single. I really don't appreciate you saying he is lazy!! The ONLY time he was complaining was when his truck WAS sitting still! And being a L/O that happen to be way to much. Central will end up playing you all. I've seen it happen to the best. When he was running teams he had one of the top teams in the company. He had more miles that he could handle. Then when his co-driver had a medical problem and had to stop driving. You would have thought he brought it upon himself just to spite Central. They need everyone in the beginning but eventually, you are making to much money or may be getting ready to get pd vacation something will cause them to NOT need you anymore! THEN.....we will see.

Crap, my cheese load headed west got canceled. Was supposed to go home this weekend. I guess thats going to be delayed a couple days now.

Edit: Cheese load back on! shipper canceled because they 'didnt have the product' all of a sudden NOW they have it. In a matter of 2 hrs. Now i just need to get out of this United Supermarkets DC. Unload time: 20 minutes once i got in the door. Wait for paperwork: 3 hr+ ran out of hrs on shipper's dock though. They are letting me sleep here tonight because my TRL wasnt preloaded like it was supposed to be.