Central Refrigerated Truck Stop

The following is from their web site...

Upon graduation from the three-week school, applicants enter Step One of the career path as a newly hired trainee. Trainees spend a minimum of 28 days and 14,500 miles with a certified OTR trainer where they learn life on the road, company policies and procedures and fine tune driving skills. During this step, wages are $450 per week.

EXPERIENCEPAY PER MILE*
0 - 6 Months$.28
6 - 12 Months$.29
1 - 2 Years$.30
2 - 3 Years$.305
3 - 4 Years$.31
4 - 5 Years$.315

 

The terminal is in West Valley City ie WVC not Salt Lake City SLC. If you don't know it is never a silly question. Just remember that.

 

Grrrrr and grumble, grumble. Bunk htr not working. Closest thermoking is in Amarillo. Guess I get to spend the day huddled under the blankets, rewatching all my dvds again or reading a book. Not going back to the Shell again since I woke up with a hangover this morning. I'm such a baaaaaaaaaaaaad boy. lol

 

hehehehehehe if I remember right 1bad had a hangover last time he was in tx too........silly boys!

 

Quiet here tonight. Hopefully that means yall are busy running? I got all my stuff packed and ready to get out to mormon town on Sat. After sitting around with no job for 6months Im am getting real anxious to get to work!!
Ive not gone this long without work since I was 13 (dish pit in those days ha)
Anyhow, got the plymouth in storage to wait for me, and about got the old lady stabilized about me taking out for a month and a half. double checked the final list and plane reservations so hohum. guess ill flip through the ol' ga state cdl manual again.
Oh yeah, Any good places to grub within walking distance from wvc? They got any taco buenos out there or in and out burgers? whattaburger? Pretty sure there arent any waffle houses?
Yall be good.
__B.L.

 

I was raceing to Groveport OH when I ran into the JJ crew.
It was too bad we were on one of the worse fuel islands in Pilot history, and we were both in a hurry.
That and I was looking like hell, sleeping in receivers lots for 2 nights did nothing for me.
Maybe we will cross paths again before you go active duty.
I am back in Buffalo now, Sears load in a wonderful part of town (sarcasm intended)
I felt bad after I left though, I did not ask which way you were headed. We could have run a ways together and BSed. Was a boring ride.

This week was pretty slow. Talking to guys in Columbus it sounded like I was not the only one that saw it though. not even 1900 miles on the week. I asked if he could find me one to get me home in the morning, so I could get paid for part of the way.
Otherwise I will ride down without mileage in the morning and take a long break.

Looks like Central still has plenty of students flooding them.
It is good for them I guess, and good for new people that want into the industry.
I just wish all the company's with schools could take a year break on training. So everyone could make a little more. Way too many trucks on the road for the freight.

On the WVC food thing.
There is a chain mexican place right up the street. But the best burrito I have ever had was bought in there parking lot. A mexican guy and his wife come in every night around 8 or 9.
They have a roach coach in the lot.
Really good food and good prices.
Also during the day the Central Cafe has decent food. I miss having a restrant in terminals. Much better than ordering chinese and pizza all the time.

 

how ya doing so far?

 

what do you consider walking distance.... lol cause i know town opens up, at 26-3300 south, cause wallys is at 5600 and 3350 ....

 

Man.. I'm at six months on my own now.. And I was amazed at the amount of people I've met in the last two week.. A lot of them are nice.. Some I say from talking to.. Shouldn't be out here with the mentality they have.. I think they are the reason I paid 240 for a just in case u abandon our truck fund...

Its also getting harder to get home.. After our guaranteed home time pay.. It takes em a week to get me home after my request has been in for a total of 4 weeks.. Bah. Atleast I'm home now and I'm going to sleep. Nite all.. Stay safe!!

 

Question: Do they hire out of Jersey? I'm looking to get back in the game around summertime. Just researching b4 so I know where i'm goin for sure when it's time.