Central Refrigerated Truck Stop

Very true. I am one who made t, but I know several who have not. Do I recommend it, no not very.often. its hard and you have to be very good at what you do.

 

glad to hear you have made it. are you a trainer by chance?

 

Yup. Trainer and love it.

 

Central's lease program isn't bad. You really have to know what you are doing and be willing to stay out for long periods of time in order to succeed. They aren't out to get you or just make money off of you. Central really does try hard to help its drivers succeed.

Tino just to be clear on what Abouttime said, you earn one day off for every week out but you don't get an actual day off every week. You accrue those days in every four weeks or so you take your time off. Unless you live really close to a terminal or want to take your day off out on the road. The day a week they give you though is usually meant for actual home time when the truck will be sitting. Central is a very good company and you can make fairly decent money out there but you really have to put your time in out there. They like to see you stay out for 4-6 weeks at a time. The longer the better and your dispatcher will love you! If you have an event or appointment that you need to be home for make sure that you let them know way ahead of time (a month in advance) and keep reminding them. Also don't expect to arrive home on that day. If your appointment is on Wed. Try to aim for getting home on Mon. This way you have a little grace period cause stuff goes wrong all the time and its hard for your DM to get you home on that exact date.

 

O.k. heres my take on leasing again. LEasing can be good for someone who is single has no responsibilty like a mortgage , car note, boat payments, and the like. you can bank a good bit if your smart about it . now for a person with a family i mean a wife and kids, a mortgage car notes and all the other bills associated with a family. power, water cable , FOOD, kids school, it will be really hard to pay all this stuff because the TRUCKS BILLS come first. you will be wanting to get home often to see the family but as said before it will take several weeks to start making money again after hometime. this will put the family in a bind for their necissitys. thus causing a even greater strain on the family relationship. now for a single guy who does not have a need to go home on a regular basis the money will keep rolling in cause hes not playing catch up on the trucks bills. what im trying to say here is if YOU HAVE A FAMILY THAT DEPENDS ON A STEADY PAYCHECK shy away from the lease. if your single and carefree give the lease a shot you dont have as much to lose. and you will probally bounce back a lot better if you do fail at leasing.

 

If you communicate well and run well, then 40 can be done, but more likely you will be around the 30-35 range.
Think of it this way. 40k is 800 per week gross. That is not really that much, but while on new driver pay it is hard to reach.
800/ .28 cpm = 2857 miles per week average. That is 40k per year.
Once you get a little time and get up to .32 or so it is more achievable.
800/ .32 = 2500 miles per week.
So basically first year it will be hard to make 40k. But after that first year it should not be hard.

 

how high was it? if you dont mine me asking

 

Anyone wishing to sign up for lease purchase, please make a list of the ways in which you are better off than a company driver. In most cases, you will have a hard time paying yourself the same wage you would earn as a company driver. In addition, you are getting no benefits, no vacation, no retirement, AND assuming all the risk of something going wrong with the truck. On top of that, instead of parking the truck when home time rolls around, you will be servicing, fixing, etc. In my opinion, even at the .94 + FSC that most true van contractors receive you are not much better off than a company driver. You really need to consider the exposure you are assuming for the marginal gain in take home pay. There are many engine repairs that could run up a $5-10K bill. That would seem to consume a years worth of deposits into the truck/maintenance account. There really are a lot of good company truck driver jobs out there. Don't fall for the get rich quick mentality. Get your year in at a starter company, and start looking for that good company driver job.

 

elogs and it sucks wish could do paper

 

why dont you like them if you donjt mind me asking?