Central Refrigerated Truck Stop

I had to keep a close eye on the fuel routing that they would send me, they would have me put 50gals in at one truckstop, then send me to fill at another truckstop down the road at a higher price! As a L/O I would disregard the fuel routing, look at the prices of the fuel at the 2 stops and fill at the cheaper of the 2 and save some $$$$

 

Bigcali. The yard is on 6th & 9 th street in Modesto I believe. But the first week is at the office in salida can't remember the address. It is where we meet on Friday. I will pm you later with my number. My name is Todd

 

That is like the paid deadhead I had from Tacoma, WA down to Riverside, CA. Was some 1400mi.

 

Hey as long as I got paid I won't care how long the dh was. Maybe that's just a newbie talking

 

Several members of the forum are lease OP's though. They get paid the mileage on the deadhead but do not get fuel surcharge. So they loose money on deadhead.
That is why they are discussing it.
It is one of those odd things with centrals contract.

 

Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to remember that if I ever go that route. Not Lilkly though.

 

Thats not necessarily true. Assuming your fixed costs are already taken care of, you dont lose money. you just dont make as much.

say a deadhead is 270 miles and you get 9mpg because you are empty. You need 30 Gal of fuel, example at today's fuel average. Assuming your fixed costs are already taken care of.

$4/gal
30 x 4 = $120 spent. 270 x .85 = $232 earned. so you made $112

$3.20 /gal
30 x 3.20 = $96 spent. and the $232 is still earned. You made $136

then God forbid...

$5 /gal
30 x 5 = $150 and the $232 is still the same... $82 made

The higher fuel prices goes up the less you make because of no surcharge on empty miles. If fuel prices get to the point where I'm barely breaking on even on just the empty miles then ill have to refuse those loads with the big deadheads.

My complaint isnt about the money (right now) its the fact that i need to drive almost 1/2 the day just to go get a meat load then they want typically want it 550-600 miles away for an early morning appointment the next day. Its nice if you can take your 10 hour break there but sometimes thats not an option because of the previous receiver. Then when the load isnt ready by the DDT they try to put the service fail on you even though you were there ready to go with it. My fleet manager got me out of a couple of those because of that.

 

The time they stamp on the wmw008 or whatever the daern form is technically the time you checked in, but I rose a big stink because they made me wait over 45 min to get an open door after I was in the gate because after they gave me a door assignment, they moved a trailer in that door. Needless to say, can't check in until the trailer is in the door, dropped, and chocked. It was not my fault they had no door, so I made them change the time on the form, sign it, get a manager to sign it, and the extra hour and a half it took to get empty past their allotted time, we got paid for. I have made them note issues like that. If o roll up to the gate 1 hour before the appointment (in the case of the door issue it was only 30 min early), and between the traffic in the yard, and the long lines for slow people who hate their job, I will not be blamed for being late

As far as the deadhead goes, we have been paid fuel surcharge on deadhead miles before, but it is at a lessor rate than typical surcharge (I think because they know you get better mileage).

I would rather take a hit and roll on my dime to a location for a good load than fight with a crappy load. We once asked if we could not take a kraft load with too much time on it that we couldn't drop and go to the next load on our dime, they told us no. The wasting of time for me is horrible. 10 hours mandatory shutdown on meat and catfish loads. So many other stupid waiting games, and don't get me started on routing through a terminal for the quarterly repeat or to have donna in o/o ask if you are doing everything right. Oh, let's see, you just forced me to lose money to get routed through here to sit in the inspection lane for hours to get red tagged for the trailer because the moron didn't know how to communicate with the new trailers, and then to go over something you could have asked on the phone. Now my day is shot and my sleep schedule is screwed because we have to do what you want. Hmmmmmm. But when I need something, could someone answer the phone or respond to voice mails???? Nnnnnoooooooo. And I do what you want why? Oh, yeah because I need to make a living. Now can I do that?

Sorry for the rant. Now. Returning you to the normal discussion.

 

Durn!! Was thinking that DH from Boston to some meat house in IA was the longest. Poo!!! Think it was right around 1150 or so.

 

Ya know, there's a lot of things wrong with my company but, they don't try to stick you with "service failures" over something that wasn't your fault.