Central Refrigerated Truck Stop

ya but if your DM is like mine, he just blames it on the planner and or "no loads".....

 

Is there any company driver in here that could give me an opinion about whether or not to go through the school and if your just a company driver do ya get crappy equipment and or loads? THanks

 

Have you tried to do a mac3?
It is a joke.... Driver Code, do you want a recap y/n

thats is! about as useless as the mac6...

 

Klingon, We got those smaller prostars a while ago, nobody wanted them and they gave most of them to company drivers. We got them because Coors raised our contract to 50k lbs, then they retracted it back to 48k allowing all the other trucks to be used on Coors. We are not getting any Prostars anymore. This next round of trucks are going to be FTL Cascadias (new company trucks...can be leased and will have a premium package) and Coronados (only 20 of them and they will only go to drivers with 5 or more years with Central), and Pete 386s and 389s (both lease only). All the Volvo's, 387s, and most of the T2000s and W900s will be gone by the end of the year.

Also, the mac 6 is not useless. It is your time of availability. The planner's use that to put loads on your truck. If you don't update the mac 6 you will not be preset and/or you will have to wait longer for loads. In general, you won't be able to run as many miles because you won't have the benefit of the planners looking ahead for loads.

The mac 3 gives you a recap now so you know what hours you've used and have coming back.

 

Just to clarify we have 6 different versions of the Prostar.

- 2010 International ProStar Eagle, 73" Midroof (Trucks 00XXX)
- 2010 International ProStar Eagle, 73" High Roof (Trucks 12XXX-13XXX)
- 2011 International ProStar Eagle, 73" High Roof (Trucks 14XXX-15XXX, 17XXX)
- 2011 International ProStar Eagle, 52" Midroof (Coors Lightweight (later company) Trucks 16XXX-17XXX, also only Central Prostars without side fairings, and only Central trucks to have 10 speed trans)
- 2011 International ProStar Limited, 73" High Roof (Trucks 15XXX-16XXX, have chrome mirrors, built-in refrigerators, and upgraded interior door panels)
- 2011 International ProStar Limited, 73" High Roof (Trucks 14XXX-16XXX, same as above except with chrome visor/bumper, leather seats, and some have two-tone paint)

Other trucks include:

- 2008 Volvo VNL670 (trucks 83XXX, 87XXX, 61" High Roof, Volvo D12 engines)
- 2009 Volvo VNL670 (trucks 97XXX-99XXX, 61" High Roof, Cummins ISX engines)
- 2008 KW T2000 (trucks 89XXX, 75" Midroof)
- 2009 KW T2000 (trucks 94XXX, 75" Midroof)
- 2010 KW T2000 (trucks 12XXX, 75" Midroof)
- 2009 KW W900 (trucks 93XXX-94XXX, 72" Midroof)
- 2010 KW W900 (trucks 11XXX-11XXX, 72" Midroof)
- 2009 Pete 387 (trucks 95XXX-96XXX, 75" High Roof)
- 2010 Pete 386 (trucks 10XXX-11XXX, 70" Midroof)

- Most of the test trucks include:

- 2010 FTL Cascadia (truck 1000, only one in fleet)
- 2011 FTL Cascadia (trucks 18XXX)
- 2011 Volvo VNL670 (trucks 17XXX, only 2 in fleet)
- 2011 Pete 386 (trucks 18XXX, only 2 in fleet)
- 2011 KW T700 (trucks 18XXX, only 4 in fleet, two have PACCAR MX engines)
- 2011 Pete 587 (only 1-2 in fleet)
- 2011 FTL Cascadia (only 1 currently in fleet)

There are also true owner ops:

- 2005 KW W900 (trucks 85XXX, there are a few of them still left in the fleet, ex-lease trucks)
- 2008 Volvo VNL780 (trucks 87XXX, ex-lease trucks)
- Most others (trucks 90XXX-92XXX, includes multiple 2003 FTL Columbia's (ex-lease), two 2006 Pete 387s, a 2009 Intl ProStar, and a 2004 Volvo VNL670...there are others as well but I don't know them all)


I may have some facts wrong but thats what I've observed.

 

They changed and combined mac 3 and 9 because too many weren't doing the 9.

And, I mentioned the ones for the stupid coors driver, they are $40 less a week than ours and weighs only 1500 less than ours. They are ridiculous.

And as a large gripe, I think we are approaching the point of quitting. We have been charged for someone else's accident on our pay and just keep getting pushed off to someone else. Our truck is still not right, and if we get it fixed then we end up costing so much it is unreal just to be down. I have reached my breaking point

 

I have about 10 load locks I'm about to sell back to central. Lol thanks anyway

 

I'll be there too. Then drop my cheese at nestle in springville Fri 0500

 

Finally got home yesterday. Yay!! I was all out of most of my prescriptions...not good. Glad to hear so many have upgraded. Congrats to you all! By the way, I tried to ensure I would have a trailer when I came back from home time by using the king pin lock and putting the padlock on the door...did not work. It did get my hiney chewed out a little around the edges,though. Not a good idea...

 

I think if they has someone with some REAL computer brains, they could consolidate a lot of that information.
You have to do a 3, 6, 9, every day. you put the same information that is required in the 6 in the 3 (or at least you did now it is in the 9). Why cant that information be populated when you put it in the now mac9?