Central Refrigerated Truck Stop

It IS paid training and you have to show it on your log. they give you a sheet to give to your trainer that shows the hours as being on line 4. The trainer will take it and toss it out because if it isn't on the qualcomm, it isn't hours that were used.

 

Talk to Rachel Lindgren. She never blew smoke up my tailpipe. Call the company 800 number and ask the receptionst to talk to her. If you like her, get her extension from her so you can just punch it in when you call.

 

You had better get the 400 miles that are out of route documented as well. If you are that far out of route they may want to charge you for the fuel you use. the secret to success is to get everything in writing, ON THE QUALCOMM especially if it looks a little fishy. If you have a phone conversation with them, send a mac1 and document the conversation so they can't hollar later.

 

I have had several 2,000+ mile loads, even when I was company. It is my understanding that the teams and trainers get mostly "hot" loads that can't get done by a solo. they will give a regular run to a team if a team load isn't out there, but will allow them to drop and then get another load. Maybe I'm wrong on this but why would you give a team a 2000 mile load that has 4-5 days to run it?

 

Nomad, here comes the accountant in me again. The road use is supposed to be miles times 90% times 1.1 cpm, however I have no clue what miles they use. The way I figure it is 1.2 cpm and only on the long runs may I have estimated it a few pennies more than what they charge. I wore down the payroll person trying to get her to explain it because it states 1.1 cpm, but that wasn't working. Finally I gave up the fight and just figure it how I want and it works. The additional fuel charges, I have months of records I could show. Bottom line, regardless of where they tell you to fuel, if you fuel at a TA or Petro you get an additional $0.34 charge. Especially where the fuel is the same, and sometimes not, we will take the hit to be able to have showers with two towels and real bathmats. If you fuel at a terminal it is a $0.07 charge. We have not been charged for fueling at any pilot or love's. We never follow their fueling suggestions because they don't make sense. I despise calling people when I don't have to, and our qualcomm is the biggest pos in the system. We look up fuel prices on dieselboss and figure everything on the cash price. Do we get chrged that, no, actually far less, but it works. I would much rather figure we are only going to get $2000 and then be happy with the extra.

The best way to tell if the 400 miles out of route is included is if it was added as a via point. We have had to be routed through a terminal 3 times because Lextc got pulled for a random, so you better believe we made sure it was on the routing.

I keep meticulous records, and compare everything. When we used ATBS, I questioned them a lot. Sorry, you don't mess with an accountants books. Come year end I figured out why my numbers didn't match there's. There were several (I mean like 40 or more) receipts they did not include with notes like unreadable (I could still read it on their copy), possible duplicate (look at the time), etc. I guess bottom line, it is your business, and if you want to use their calculations and use ATBS numbers straight up, you will be off, but that is your call. I choose to tear apart the numbers to analyze them and then question until I am happy with the answer or have figured out a better method. Hope that helps.

 

Been there done that... they keep telling be that they are ok...

 

That is a question I have NOT heard back from leasing yet about. They are charging leasee .01 cent per mile for road tax.
I know for a fact that road taxes are collected at the pump!
So what is the .01 for?

 

It is still bad advice, for the same reason you just stated.
You should not pickup a load with less than 3/4.
The shipper has to make it legal. And every shipper I have gone to has done just that, even the Beer and meat loads.

 

The sheet they gave me to give to my trainer (which he didn't even look at just tossed in the trash) was 8 days of "0" hours.