WITH ALL THE ACCIDENTS CSA 2010 MIGHT JUST PUT CENTRAL OUT OF BUSINESS OR SHOULD I SAY THEIR TRAINERS WHO ARE NOT TRAINING WHAT SO EVER. I HAVE HAD NEW ONES ASK ME HOW TO WORK THE COMPUTER??? OTHERS CAN'T BACK, AND STILL OTHERS DON'T KNOW HOW TO SLIDE THEIR TANDUMS. WHAT THE HELL DO THE TRAINERS DO ANYWAY? SOUNDS LIKE A JOB FOR ME.

Originally Posted by mikley28

yeah 50 mph my ###!

On a side note... last time I was WVC I was talking to a L/O and he said that the L/O planners were being retrained because of all the stupid stuff like the above and they are supposed to priority on the loads. Maybe if we are lucky the other planners for the company drivers will be retrained.

WHAT RETRAINING WE HAVE SEEN NO EVIDENCE OF THIS, THEY NEED TO HAVE THE DM'S AND THE PLANNERS TAKE THE OWNER OPERATORS COURSE THEY WANT YOU TO TAKE, THE CABS COURSE IS GREAT IF CENTRAL WOULD JUST LET YOU DO IT. IT IS GREAT ADVICE FOR RUNNING YOUR OWN BUSINESS. TRUTH BE TOLD L/O ARE NOTHING MORE THAN GLORIFIED EMPLOYEES WHO ARE PAYING CENTRALS BILLS.

MAYBE ONE OF THESE EARTHQUAKES WILL HIT CENTRAL AND SUCK IT WAY DOWN IN THE GROUND, YA THINK?

Originally Posted by jess-juju

All I can say is good luck and I hope it works out for you, but after seeing names on here come and go very quickly (never to be heard from again) what makes you think that you will be any different?

I never said i thought i was gonna be any different than anyone else. I am just gonna stick out and make the best i can of it.

Q: how long does it take to unload 43 cases # us cold storage in tracy, ca?

A: 5+ hours w/ no detention because it's os&d and I had no appt when load was assigned to me.

I should have been home last night!

Central was never a great company. But they were allot better than they are now (from what I see in the forums).
When I was there I had a really good dispatcher out of Conley till I went on Kraft. She ran the heck out of me, but I did it legal. Always 3200+ miles a week.
Any load that I did not think I could do, when looking at the preplan, I would shoot back a message that I thought I would be late, and when I would be able to deliver. This was before ever accepting the load. I would not accept it until they told me to go ahead and take it and deliver when I could.
This happened fairly often when I was full OTR with them, and when I was on Kraft (before getting a set run).
All communication was on Qualcom. My dispatchers and me used it to cover our assets.
I was with Central over a year and a half, and I never had a late load.
Several were delivered after the original delivery time, but when I could get it to the receiver was known before I accepted the load, and I was never blamed for it.

I made pretty good money at Central. I was treated well by my dispatchers.
Night and weekend dispatch was a totally different animal. These guys and gals should all have been forced to keep there helmets on even after school.
That way people would know their Level of mental ability. Maybe then they would not be working in an industry that they do not have the capacity to understand.

Truck maintenance when I was at Central was rather poor.
Most of the "mechanics" they had were useless. They had one really good Volvo mechanic in Irvine, but they let him go.
Other than that none knew anything about engines.
Lucky for me, after I was on a dedicated run I was never near a terminal. So all maintenance and breakdown issues were fixed at dealers on the road. Quickly and correctly.

The idle/ fuel thing is a joke. They started that while I was still with the company. It was fall and into winter, so was no issue at the time. I had a bunk heater, and would use Icon on engine management mode. So 0% idle all winter. Got my bonus every month.
In summer it was harder to get the bonus, but since I ran Avon NY to Independence Missouri, it was not exactly the hottest states. I kept idle down by using all cab curtains every time I stopped to hold in my temps. Kept bunk curtains closed when driving, that way I could set the temp in there to an extreme. Hot or cold, depending on the season. And it would get the mattress that temp, and would hold it for quite a while when parked.
Park in the sun when cold, in the shade when hot. Or at the least facing the sun when cold and away from the sun when hot.
All little things, but helpful.