Working For Central Ref.

I will be easy to spot as well, probably going to be one of the oldest, 44, coming in from Mississippi but with a yankee accent

 

I doubt you will be one of the oldest at 44.
Most will probably be 45+++ with a few 60ish.
The vast majority of new drivers coming into the industry are 35+++

 

Ill be the babie in my class for shure fresh 21 yearold by 5 days befor I go in, in october, im excited to finally get my cdl after all these years of having to ride in the passenger seat, and only getting to drive in the yard,

younghauler

 

####!!!!...i thought i was the youngeST..when do u start..im 22

 

start oct 25th. 5 days after my 21st birthday,

 

o ok...i start the 27th of this month

 

get-r-done brah, drive safe, and have fun,

 

chromedome u seem to be the man with all the knowledge...question: Does central run to & through california alot??

 

NOOOOOOO I hate this LAPTOP.
I hit some button all the time that causes me to loose my posts.
I spend 5 min plus writing and then my hand hits some crappy hot button and I loose it all. Happens several times a week.


Anyway.
Central has allot of freight out west, and you will end up there a good bit. Which is good, you will want all the long runs you can get, as long as they do not have too much time on them.

Being from Indiana if I were you I would try and get on the Kraft fleet after 6 months.
The pay is better than what you will start at. I hear they lowered it some last year, but when I was with Central all drivers on the Kraft fleet were getting .40 cpm, but you loose detention pay and stop pay (which I hear is gone for everyone now).
40 cpm is not bad pay for 6 months experience though. And if it matters to you, you will get home more on Kraft than normal OTR. Since it is rationalized.

I ran Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, New York, and Pennsylvania mainly. When I first got on the fleet. Then I got a dedicated run that got me 3200 miles per week, and thru the house every weekend for a night.
Plus it was rare I ever saw a terminal, so all work done on my truck was in shops on the road, so I got faster service and less sitting.

As for Cali. When I would leave my house from home time my load out was normally to Cali or Nevada. And then I would run that region for at least 2 weeks before they would run me back east. This was when I was OTR before kraft.

I have not been with Central for quite a while now. I keep up with what is going on by talking to other drivers on other threads, and then I just answer what I can. I do not and would never claim to know everything about anything.

 

cooll...maybe i can ask for hometime out that way if possilble..i have a lady friend who just moved out there by L.A....and i wonder if i let them know ahead of time will they let me take my hometime outhere instead of routing me all the way back to indiana....i might be moving out to california in a couple years....does central have any good dedicated routes out that way that are good and pay good?