Central Refrigerated Truck Stop

i dont blame ya.... Although Mesilla valley... if i were the driver I would have went to buy some blue spray paint to cover the pink...

 

VA seems to let everyone go on weight. they got me because i forgot to slide my tandems at the TA and they just had me pull around and do it at the scale then let me go. Just be glad you didnt have my load from Krap in Springfield, MO. 1k over. I had to avoid all scales all the way to Norcross.

 

Been in a hole at SUPER VALU (id rather slam my head in a sliding glass door) for over an hour, no one in the truck, door still shut. I have heard many horror stories. I have a 7:30 drop in 2.5 hrs, hope I get out of here on time!

 

made it down the road, on time with a few minutes to spare, only to see a tiny building with three frozen docks and a few trucks parked on the road. so Im about to take a quick nap.

 

Shame they don't teach proper grammar.

And Central's crash course is nothing all that special. The school I went to was also $1200 ($440 after a lottery grant) and it was 4 times the length of Central's with much, much more actual drive time. IIRC, Central's school was a full $3000 if you left (or got fired) before the first year.

Word to the Wise: If you end up with a heavy truck (W9, T2, or 387), you can count on being overloaded quite a bit. For some reason, shippers expect every truck to be as light as the truck that brought it in. There's a good 2-3k lbs. difference between the big PACCAR trucks and the Cascadias, Volvos, FLD's, and ProStars they got. W9 I was in full of junk was over 22k itself and full of fuel. Budweiser, Kraft, and Nestle were very bad about overloading me. Sometimes by as much as 3k lbs. Lots of times, I would be right at the limit with less than a 1/4 tank of fuel. That made for a quite a few stops for 50 gallons each time. At least I built up quite a bit of free showers that way.

 

Ok, so the hometime ended up being longer, and sorry don't care about the forum too much when I am at home. That is the time we enjoy with family. Anywhoooo....

Ladyk, thank you. Glad you and klingon are together. Know that I would be willing to help y'all no matter what. I have lost the filter most have that tells the mouth or fingers not to say the first thought that comes into the brain (ask 6pak if you don't believe me).

As far as conley and trailers, we were lucky and found a trailer before we went home when we dropped our load on the yard. And, btw, could they either stop with the charade as to swift and central being separate, or could they park their trailers straight if they are on our yard? Oh so frustrating.

1bad, had you not heard central now has convertible trailers, and the prostars have special eject buttons (joking)

Speaking of accidents we were in ft worth when that flatbed decided he took the wrong bridge halfway through. Ummmmm not advised.

Congrats to everyone who passed, upgraded, got in a truck, etc. We will be turning in the chrome home soon, so if you are in slc when we are, you will see it. We will be doing an inbetween truck of our own leased on to central so long as we have our fleet manager. If that changes, we will be gone.

Anywho, going to sleep on my sleepdog mattress. Still getting used to it. Will let you know what I think later.

Be safe out there, and watch out for wild turkeys in kansas.

 

Oh, before I forget, smallest place to deliver to is in nacogdoches, la. The chevron has good boudin and meat pies. The sheriff followed us through the residential no trucks neighborhood that we were told is the only way to get to it. It was teeney!!!

 

What's the process of changing dispatchers? I know who I want..

 

Ask a terminal manager to switch you.

 

Sitting in Conley for 34 hours. Get my permit book updated and get a hub seal fixed..

Any of you all are here I am in truck 12441 Red Prostar