Central Refrigerated Truck Stop

when you get the fuel has nothing to do with the surcharge. you can get as much or as little as you want, they only care about the loaded miles. that is what surcharge is paid on. the fuel you buy will be attached to the load you are hauling or the one you are going to get. so, if you get fuel on tuesday and fill the tanks, but that load delivers on thursday, the fuel will not be taken out till the load del. on thursday is paid out.

 

oh shucks, your just blowin smoke. i am just out here to make a dollar a day and teach new drivers better than my trainer taught me. i dont want my students to have to learn the hard way like i did due to lack of trainer instruction. and as for the new phone, no i dont have it yet, but soon i hope.

 

well, back into stalker mode. gotta sleep and run. oh wait, should do those seperate. if i can help on questions, i will try to get the answers up on here. not always easy. hope my comments help out and be safe. the life you save by not being sleepy could be mine. and i will be forever grateful.

 

Our weeks run from thursday to Wednesday. You must deliver a load by midnight Wednesday night, and drop the trip pack (bills and receipts) by the time it's picked up Thursday (or scan in by midnight Thursday). They process payroll at the beginning of the next week, and it pays out Wednesday.

All pay is loaded to your Comdata card, you can use it off the card, or do other things. There's an option for direct deposit, which means it load to the comdata card and is then shuffled off to your bank. I have that done, but my pay's delayed a day that way. You can also elect to not use direct deposit, and leave it on the card, and manually transfer it off to other bank accounts. So, if you were paid $600, you could send $300 to the home bank for bills, and then go to WalMart, use your comdata card for $150 in stuff, and get another $100 like you would with a debit card. Then you'd have $50 still on the card. A lot of drivers like this, especially if they don't have a bank account.

The training pay is per day, based on a 7 day week. Rather than paying you $475 a week and you only being on the truck 3 days of that week, you'll get $202.50. If you do a full week, you'll get the full week's pay.

That orientation pay is pretty much a "congrats on making it this far" pay. Make sure they still give it out. Since you are spending 2-3 days in orientation, think of it as paid training.

 

Actually, it's more considered a drop yard than a terminal, like CRSIR. The planner there won't help you if you're having a non catfish load, so it's really more a drop yard.

 

Use a macro 33, report the spliced wires, the no working bunk heater, all of it. Do it 3 or 4 days in a row, because those messages keep popping up.

Tell safety about the severed code and splicing it back together, if you haven't already.

 

My recruiter was so full of it he squished. funny thing, 3 months after I started, he was gone, and rumor has it he went to recruit for Swift.

I don't advocate leasing, and I never have. But, if you're going to consider it, stay with Central a year. Pay off your schooling, learn what a full year of driving is like, and see if you can stand being with Central at the end of the year. If you can, and the lease looks appealing, you've at least put some thought into it and the legwork to know what the company is like.

 

How long were you out before you requested your home time? How far in advance did you do it? When did you start hounding your dm? If he says go out of route 400 miles, is it on the Qualcomm? Does he have the stop in there so your fuel routing will work out?

I don't mean to ask a hundred questions, but these things will affect how you get home on time. The planners don't see your home time request, and if they do happen across it, they will not care. your dm will not say much about your home time unless you hound him. Or her, the gender's not important. You need to start at least a week in advance.

And lastly, why'd you stay out 7 weeks if you know you had a temporary license? Pushing it til last minute runs you a very good chance of getting canned.

 

I have it set up, but I've never used it in 4 years of driving. I've heard the toll thing, but I keep a little change in the truck for the tolls, and just turn the receipts in. I figure the one time I use an advance to get it, I'll never see the money.

 

As a lease op, you fuel where you want, and when you want. That means you can take on 25 gallons or fill your tank, it's up to you. Learning to fuel smartly is one of the hardest things to do as an o/o, according to central. You don't want to buy 5000 miles worth of fuel if you're only running 3000 miles.

The best way to figure out where to fuel is to figure out your fuel milage and the length of your loads, and fuel accordingly. So, if you get 6 miles per gallon and you have a 1200 mile load, you need 200 gallons of fuel. You may get it at the beginning of the load, you might pick it up in increments as you go, depending on where fuel is cheapest. The best way to find out is to call fuel and permits (the extension is in your permits book) and ask them where along your route fuel is cheapest. then try and make it there.

Some states have higher fuel costs than others, so you'll have to learn where to fuel and how much. ask other owner ops, ask the fuel department, and even talk to the o/o department, and see what they say.