Central Refrigerated Truck Stop

This is just a in gengeral message to all the central drivers.

That paper central provides us with out of the handbook for kingpin lengths is incorrect about 7 states.

First off I pulled these from the rand mcnaley or however u spell it map book and double checked by calling the DOT in the according states so here are the states that r wrong on the central paper.

Georgia - No Kingpin Length Law
Illinois - No Kingpin Length Law
Maryland - says None but is actually 41 KCRA
Michigan - 41' KCRA
New York - 43' KCRA
South Carolina - 41' KCRA
Vermont - No Kingpin Length Law

I know getting rid of IL helps me out a lot sometimes.

Well 6 days till I'm supposed to be back home in NORCAL and they r sending me to TX so crossing my fingers.

Stay safe out there

 

The funniest thing i heard today came from a swift driver on the other side of the highway. Apparently there was a heavy hauler, and swift was trying to pass him with about 6 other trucks behind them. I assume the heavy hauler told swift he could come over and swift replied "But I'm not getting off yet". I couldnt stop laughing for about 30 miles.

 

Well JJ, be sure and let me know how things work out with whomever you go to work for. Am/was hoping to stick with my company for 2 years and then find a quality company that actually cares about their drivers but.......am just so effing disgusted at the moment!!!
Brother wants me to come home and work with him and become a coowner in his business and am giving it semi-serious thought. He has his own geotech business and is doing ok at the moment. I have money I could invest in it and be able to expand his business and with my CDL, he could eventually buy a bigger rig but dang.....talk about a dirty business that operates in all kinds of weather!!!

 

I was listening to the radio earler.
Big Brown is hireing 25k drivers in the next 5 years.
They have even started taking rookies.
Pay averages 75k per year. Of course all bennies from the union.
May want to look there boys.

 

I am just ready to see you in the seat.
You are here all the time. You know more info on the industry than many truckers. Now you just have to live it.
Good luck.
Note my last post.
Big Brown is hireing rookies. Check your area.

 

In Des Moines IA for the night, heading to Springfield MO then Joplin.

Was pulling into a t/s earlier today. As I was pulling into the lot the supertruckers were berating a swifty on his backing inabilaties over the radio. Swifty was offering up all sorts of excuses for taking so long to park. As this was going on I found the swift truck and backed in next to him in one shot while the radio chatter continued. When I was done I heard over the radio "hey swift, did you see how central parked?" Swift replied that he did not, so supertrucker replied "that's because it didn't take him a f%#ing hour to do it!"

 

Yeah mon, them Jamaican drivers are crazy mon. They open their doors on their psychadelic trucks with the loud reggae and all the smoke pours out. What I can't figure is how they drive them over from Jamaica? They must have one heck of a snorkel kit or one of those fancy sterling engines that runs off of compressed air like the Aussie navy has for their subs.

Hey DM07, if ya bring that fancy xbox thingy with ya, when we meet up I'll have to challenge ya at Sebring in one of them fancy new F class 4 wheelers, or 20 laps at Le Mans in an R1?

Sitting at the J in Des Moines. Kind of a nice joint. Green grass everywhere, trees in the islands, friendly staff and no reptiles crawlin around.