Central Refrigerated Truck Stop

Hopefully you have the Natural Talent, and will do Great there !!!

 

I'll just assume that I didn't phrase my question correctly and also assume that your not out to severely chastize people just because you feel you can. Am glad that your running a successful business and that you like it. Don't harass those of us who are asking questions but who don't want to be O/O's.

What I should have asked was.....when you quit or are fired, isn't that acct turned off? I guess the answer is no and oh BTW, I do have my # memorized AND written down.

 

nothing was broken on that TRL that I dropped off at Campbell's in Paris, it just has my padlock on it...lol I noticed i forgot it when i shutdown for the day and didnt have my lock with me. OTRM told me to leave the other one with the bent landing gear crank since I was pressed for time.

 

Central must have got a totally new CONTRACT in the last 9 months

If you are Leasing your truck through an Independent Leasing company then your situation is totally different then 99.9% of the Lease Ops working for Central, JJ's lease was through Central, it is a 3rd party lease, Central Lease the trucks from Paccar and the Lease Ops lease the same truck from Central Refrigerated hence the third party Lease!

If Central can not supply the miles we can be leased to another company.

JJ's contract states that he cant Lease on with someone else if the miles weren't there, So obviously you have a different contract!

Oh and Chrome is TOTALLY RIGHT about our situation if JJ is Deemed an Employee and not Independent Contractor then Central are legally responsible for Taxes not the Employee.

 

Oh yeah.. 10-4.. On good months I have averaged up to 2900 then bad months I only get around 1100 a week.. It all depends on my breakdowns or how freight is in my area, since I'm midwest ded.

I hear ya.. Although for me.. I run when I need to if its snowing and if I have the time.. I stop and make a snow angel... Lol! I believe everyone has their own systems that either make or break em.. So far mine has done okay.. But I recently added a few bills and my current system will not work out for me.. So its time to revise my work ethics... No more taking voluntary 34s and what not.. I gotta work smarter and hopefully not anymore harder..

I was just curious as to your l/o status.. Because not many people talk highly of it.. And I think a lot has to do with dm and truck..

 

You know this isn't true at all in all cases! Rhino ran 7,000 miles some wks as a team. He ran as many as he was given, while asking for more, as a single. I really don't appreciate you saying he is lazy!! The ONLY time he was complaining was when his truck WAS sitting still! And being a L/O that happen to be way to much. Central will end up playing you all. I've seen it happen to the best. When he was running teams he had one of the top teams in the company. He had more miles that he could handle. Then when his co-driver had a medical problem and had to stop driving. You would have thought he brought it upon himself just to spite Central. They need everyone in the beginning but eventually, you are making to much money or may be getting ready to get pd vacation something will cause them to NOT need you anymore! THEN.....we will see.

 

Crap, my cheese load headed west got canceled. Was supposed to go home this weekend. I guess thats going to be delayed a couple days now.

Edit: Cheese load back on! shipper canceled because they 'didnt have the product' all of a sudden NOW they have it. In a matter of 2 hrs. Now i just need to get out of this United Supermarkets DC. Unload time: 20 minutes once i got in the door. Wait for paperwork: 3 hr+ ran out of hrs on shipper's dock though. They are letting me sleep here tonight because my TRL wasnt preloaded like it was supposed to be.

 

there seems to be a lot of happy campers, and they point the faults of others to there own misery with central. but i look at these happy campers and noticed they haven't been there very long.

lets see how happy they are once they pass 9 months. and see if they still accuse the veterans of bringing on there own misery.

it's the rookies that have all the fun. once you start gaining senority. and there are fresh rookies below. it's a whole different story.


as i stated once before. i had a safe job. none of you wanted it. and none of you wanted to be my friend.

NOW, you all want to be my friend and take my job. i had a good thing going. but now im being pushed aside for rookies.

 

Oh I know.. Trust me.. I just bought a car while I was in.. All I added was insurance and a car payment.. But it seems I may have over done it.. Somethings been botherin me.. When I didn't have any bills.. I seemed to average 2800 a wk.. Of course I blew it...

Well the last month I've had nothing near 2800 man.. Its because I'm getting around my year and I'm not a l/o I believe... So I'm prolly gunna be sayin farawell pretty soon.. A lot of the factories in my town are hiring again and it seems, atleast in my parts, that the job economy might be picking up.. So its time to go home.. Make more money and BE home more.. I've learned a valuable lesson here though...

If its too good to be true.. Turn around and get the hell outta dodge... Cuz she's gunna blow...

 

it would seem that a lot of companies are beating quarterly earnings. and are getting to the point that they realize what little staff they have left are overworked and they need to hire more people.

there is also news that some states are starting to ban the practice of credit checks for new hires. add to that the fact that the new cdl rules coming out this year will more then likely dump out any cdl holder that can't do there job proficiently and now have a tarnished driving record.

i see rookies dropping like flies and us seniors get treated with respect again. doors should start opening up again for veteran truckers.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/35673577 states now banning the practice of credit checks for new hires.