My 4 month review of central transport and a question regarding experience

db2681 · Dec 17, 2025

jmz said: ↑

Which you’re required to pay for out of your own pocket. Not really an issue to afford it with how much they pay, but it’s worth noting for the people who will be completely turned off by that on principle.

To me, it’s comparable to a flatbed driver being required to purchase his own straps and tarps, or a van driver being required to purchase his own load locks.
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It's odd for sure, but at the same time i have seen how some drivers treat the company provided equipment like pallet jacks, hand trucks, etc and I kinda get why they charge for them.

Someguywithquestions · Dec 17, 2025

OD at my old terminal had 3 epj but they were assigned to the older guys unless someone had a 48 of salt melt to deliver across a resort or something.

db2681 · Dec 31, 2025

jaws2003 said: ↑

I've been driving trucks since this past February and it's been a few ups and downs. I started out with US xpress and I went through 6 bad trucks. Then I wanted to give Cypress Truck lines about try but that ended worse than us xpress because I got fired from there. It took me almost a month to find a job but I ended up landing with Central transport in Tallahassee,FL and I've been there for 4 months now. Here's my pros and cons so far and I have some questions.....

Pros:

I'm home each day and on the weekends. Very similar to my white collar career.

Pretty decent pay each week even though it's a little slow.

Im getting more backing experience that I've needed for a while

I get to utilize my TWIC card as I'm the only one who has one.

I've learned a lot about my local area and places that I've never knew existed.

I also get box truck and semi experience

Hourly pay

Cons:

We don't have any electric pallet jacks to move this freight off

Because of this I'm starting to get joint pain. My hands hurt the most after working each day. I can't bend them when i first wake up in the morning.

The terminal manager loves for you to work through your 30 minute DOT break. I've seen some other LTL companies be stricter with their drivers.

Got an overweight ticket of 1k because they wanted to load so much stuff on the truck.

Short training time IMO.

Kinda wish I could do the night shift work but we are full right now and those guys aren't leaving anytime soon.

Overtime starts at 55 hours.

I was on the panama city route but a vendor kept complaining about the time that I was coming even though I was being held up at other deliveries. Now I basically so a floater route.

All that being said I am thankful for my experience and the terminal manager taking a chance on me given I don't have much experience. That being said when I get my year(which is Feb 5th, 2026) i was thinking about going to something else that was no touch and a gaurenteed minimum. My dad's friend has been trying to get me to go to Landstar because there's an owner that wants me there and they mainly run out of atlanta to the southwest, but they will not count my experience as an LTL driver. I tried to search around on her to see if I could see something on here about that but I didn't see anything. Which companies can accept LTL experience if you're trying to do regional or OTR? I thought about staying local with dump trucks but idk how that work is or if it really slows in the winters.
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Central has it's cons for sure, but their checks clear and they have stayed busy across their network unlike some other LTL's, if it was me I'd stick with it thru the winter and into spring at least and see how the freight markets are looking going into summer before i would switch jobs.

Wrench97 · Jan 4, 2026 at 5:37 PM

jaws2003 said: ↑

I agree. I've went back and forth with it. I told myself when February comes I will make a decision. As for central I can see it. Our terminal is rough and they don't put any money into it. We don't have electric pallet jacks as well. That's why my joints hurt pulling that heavy stuff.
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How many LTL carriers have electric pallet jacks on the truck?

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