Central Refrigerated Truck Stop

o i live up the road in victorville well 49.95mi away ill be coming down to the econo lodge tomorrow night about 5-6pm names Zach ill be the one with the Guinness hat on

 

Cool, I live in Corona, so I just drive in, but my classmates are at the Lodge they are all really cool. My name is Danny, see you on Tuesday.

 

ok see ya then

 

Wow, finally managed toget my phone to log in. Been meaning to post this for days, but we've been stuck in northern Texas in that snowstorm that clogged the 287 so I've been going stir crazy.

This is for all owner operators working for Central, I heard this from a friend on Thursday: if you you have a lease with Central, go over your expenses carefully, and check your insurance. My friend has been getting over charged $17 a week, to a total of $935 in just over a year. When he called the o/o division, they fed him a couple of lines of bull, and eventually said they wouldn't return the money because it was a donation to help Central cover the cost of so many accidents.

Last I checked, a forced, unknowing donation isn't a donation at all.

So, if you're an o/o, call the o/o folks and get your insurance evaluated. My friend said he was told they're doing it to ALL o/o's, so it sounds like everyone needs to call,

The guy who told me about this has been with the company a long time, and I've known him since I came to work here. I doubt he's making this one up. And, as an idea of how well Central treats long time lease drivers, that $17 they've been charging him would have been the difference between no paycheck and paycheck. Consider that before leasing a truck with Central.

 

Be glad for the work, I'm at home but our industry parks on Wednesday, and stays dead till Monday am. I love being at home but I would take the work.

 

Central is a CDL mill. You will learn exactly what is needed to pass the test. You eon't learn much else.

4 weeks with a trainer is where you will learn everything else. And by everything, I mean whatever that trainer will teach you. Some aren't so great, but you'd probably learn more from a crap trainer than the 2 weeks of school.

 

If you want to own your truck, don't go to work for central. You will never own your own truck with them. Of all the lease ops I know, 2 own their trucks. They're both freightliners, which Central stopped leasing at least 3 years ago.

Leasing with Central is the thr second worst idea out there. The first being putting in an application with Arrow right now.

 

Qwkmouse, you hit the nail on the head, the lease problem is bad bad news. When they won't let you leave the building with the lease until it's signed, something is up.

Central might not be able to make you pay up the lease according to the terms, but they will come after you. They will try to get the money from you, so hire a lawyer if all possible if you walk out of a lease. Money's prolly tight, which is why you're quitting, but a few hundred to a lawyer mightsave your DAC. Central will try n get you on abandoning equipment too, if you don't watch where you turn in the truck, so be careful there.

 

My class was really small because of the holidays. There were about 20 people who were scheduled to show up, but only 11 showed on monday morning. Of those 11, three went home before they paid their $100 deposit. One woman was sent home because she couldn't pass the workwell. Then we lost two guys because they couldn't pass their pretrip and parallel parking tests.

The class that is starting tomorrow is scheduled to have about 36 students. From what I here classes are normally about 40 people when they start and they end up about half of that by the time the two week course is over.

The course is designed to get the student to pass the CDL exams, but it is too short of a course to teach the student some real skills. So, just do exactly as the instructors say and you'll pass all the backing and skills tests, and make sure to study the pre-trip. Ridiculous that we lost two guys because they couldn't pass their pre-trip.

 

Trapped at a Wal-Mart DC in Delaware, 7 hours and counting...

Funny thing is Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again" is playing on the radio right now. Seems to fit at the moment.

Talked to the gal in the office to make sure I didn't miss them calling me. Nope 3 to 4 more hours.