Central Refrigerated Truck Stop

most companys keep you out 4 to 6 weeks, PLEASE, from 93 to 2004 it was mostly 2 weeks out, 2 days off, who's cutting the grass at home and taking mail out of that mail box, holy crap, i guess i'll stay with the dry box carriers this spring

 

how many miles are you all averaging with central?

 

you will get answers all over the board on that question... for me, I am averaging about 2500-3300 a week

 

So what is like the true average for starters? 30k? 25k? 27k?

 

So that's like at least 41k per year?
How many hours per week is 2500-3300 mi/wk? 60hours? 70hrs?

 

Does anyone know if central will rehire a driver who has had a rollover accident in one of their trucks?

 

I don't mean to be rude Lupe, but have you been paying attention to anything all these experienced folks have told you. You run as much of the 11 hours per day you can run. You can not be on duty more than 14 hours in a row without a ten hour break (off-duty or in the sleeper). You can not do more than 70 hours in any eight day period.

How many hours you actually are turning wheels depends on your dispatcher, traffic, shipper, receiver, weather and a dozen other things. Equating this field just to hours just doesn't seem to work well.

 

4000 miles / 7 days = 575 miles a day, roughly. If we ran that much every day, then yes, we could get plenty of showers and sleep. But it doesn't work that way.

This is not an uncommon week: 1000 miles in a day and a half, then a day and a half wait for the next load. Then, 3000 miles in three days, usually 5 or 6 loads to make that, then another day of sitting.

If they're not playing feast or famine, or we're not repowering or rescuing a load like we are nosomeone's sleep inw, we can usually plan showers that don't interfere with one of us sleeping. But as often as not, once we plan that nap, or shower after we deliver, someone usually dumps a half dozenshort loads on us, without enough time to fuel, let alone shower, and then we're 'rewarded' with downtime somewhere like isola, ms or liberal, ks, where there are no showers.

 

Smadronia, do you guys have a dispatcher or planner? When my wife and I drove for Central we had a planner and it was very uncommon to get under 5000 a week. This should be the busy season too. I hope you do not take this the wrong way (just trying to help) but something doesn't sound right. I don't know if it's your dispatcher or what? Maybe with out your dispatcher knowing you can talk to a planner or another dispatcher to see what is really going on. Are you guys company or leasing?

 

plan on your first year of trucking to get about 32-36k a year. 2nd year you might see 40k