Central Refrigerated Truck Stop II

i noticed you said 10k in a maintanance account.

i bet you didn't know that that's money you will NEVER EVER see. should you decided to take employment elsewhere. unless central changed there ways.

that's also money that UUUU don't get to spend however you want. you have to have permission from central to spend that money on repairs. and when your truck is in the shop. using your maintanance account. your collecting a negative paycheck.

i know where a service center is in salt lake. with probably at least 20 lease trucks. waiting to be repaired or sitting there cuz the mechanics have no clue what's wrong. and this shop isn't only working on central lease trucks. they also have swift, cre, and prime.

those lease trucks are there. becuase your own mechanics at the terminal have no clue how to fix them.

i had my truck there. it spent a total of 1 hour in the shop for diagnosis. the cost. $500. for one hour diagnosis. they wanted $4500 to fix the problem. i took it somewhere else and spent $1500.

i don't beleive you have the luxory of fixing it anywhere you want. you have to go to central approved shops. becuase central pays the bill and deducts from your maint. account.

CORRECT me if i'm wrong.

 

snowwys right they do and will take your money in your maitence acct if you quit. it is your money not theirs. always put maintence money in a seperate account that you controll at your financial institution. then when or if the time comes you still got your money.

 

snowwy, you are wrong.

You can withdrawal from your maintenance account for any reason (even to make a pile of cash to roll around in) once per quarter. You can get your truck fixed anywhere, but it WILL be easier from a paperwork standpoint if you use one of their vendors. Maintenance and repairs are withdrawn from your maintenance account and have no impact on your settlement unless they exceed what is in your account. In addition, your fixed and operating costs will be taken from your account should you reach a $0 check, so you wont get a negative check, per se, but like anyone in business can tell you, you loose money when things are bad. It doesn't matter where its coming from, because its your pocket regardless.

If you're planing to leave, clear your maintenance account. Don't trust them to be square with you after you leave their employ.

 

Leasing at Central got us where we are now. We are a team, have been since day 1. We did just about every dedicated (Coors, Walmart, Dole, and were classified as Kraft because of bookkeeping crap). Our experience was 240k miles of a great truck. Changed the oil, etc and ran. We fought during that time to stay as busy as we wanted to. After 240k it started going down to the point it had an inframe at 410k. We fought to keep rolling in a functioning truck (much like the klingons). With that we were able to put the down payment on our big bunk. We had very little in reserves, but went to a company that helped when we needed it. Our payment on this truck is half our payment to Central, but still more than I would ever advise. We struggled through our first year, but we made it through. Believe me there are times in that year I wished we hadn't left Central. I will always look at Central as a great starting point where we got to meet some great people, but this past year of almost failing taught us more than we ever would have learned in the safety of Central. I recommended my cousin go to Central for training, sadly he can't make things work as a solo company driver, and is probably going to not listen and lease a truck because I am dumb. Anyway, I am sleepy so I am going to stop before I lose my train of thought any more.

 

i just love this espically from a guy with 3 mo exp in the biz. the thing here is that you lease a truck from central. i own my truck have the title in hand and lease it on to road link which in turn i run their loads they play by my rules or i go somewhere else with my truck can you say that?

 

If you're not killing it as a solo company driver, the lease will be killing you.

 

No, I can't. It wouldn't matter if I had title in hand though, because I've only been driving 6 months. You moved up in the world with time, and it will take me the same time to move up in the world. Leasing is the only option to most drivers with less than 2 years experience other than staying a company driver. I never claimed that this is the best thing in the world, but options available to you are not available to me.

For this exact reason I leased a used truck with 22 months left on it. I'll hit 2 years experience right about when my lease is up, and then my options are open.

 

ya know snowwy we have both been at this a while. and all the time we get new guys with little to no experiance come on here and claim to be gods gift to trucking. think im gonna do like chompi and graciously disappear and watch and see whos still posting here in a years time just like all the others before them. so hows the weather in utah?

 

No one's claiming to be gods gift to anything, but good luck in your endeavors.

 

What the hell happened in here? Isn't there a thread where people can argue about lease vs company vs o/o vs I did this longer so I'm automatically smarter than you...? I read threads I'm connected to because I'm bored. I read this thread actively because it's where I work/live. Leasing can be done profitably. But the risk vs the reward doesn't make sense to me, personally. You have to push hard to get miles and then you have to work even harder for a couple hundred bucks a week. Yes its more but i can live without it if it means really getting my ten hour break at the end of the day. That being said, company drivers can do quite well if you're willing to really work. If you are working hard and not making it, find out exactly why and discuss it with your DM. If you can't figure it out, well you might wanna apply at a warehouse or something making 10-15 an hour and call it good. Your DM wants you to succeed because it makes them look good. Ask em what's up when things aren't right. If that doesn't work, get a new DM. There are some dispatchers I've dealt with on weekends that I pray don't have their own fleets because they're dragging everybody down being miserable little people. Yes, I've been here less than a year. But you better believe I take leaving my family at home very seriously. I noticed early on for every professional driver I have met there have been 20 slobs who make truck drivers as a whole look like a bunch of disgusting pigs. Then I realized you don't see the pros because they are working, not lounging in the tv room or moping around some terminal wondering why they can't make money or go home. So, be a pro or be a steering wheel holder. Not a hard choice. If you're putting your ability to succeed on someone else, pull your truck into the terminal or unload my trailer tomorrow because I've got places to go!