My Experience as a Line Haul Driver

If you want to see central POS equipment go to youtube type in (my life at central transport)

 

Got nothing better to do than troll?

 

all i got to say is WOW just wow... but other LTL's do have run down equipment as well... not like the video I saw though

 

yea shot the #### with a central driver out here..says everything is crap from the forklifts to the trucks. constantly hassled at the scale house but he said he gets 50 for every inspection so he doesnt mind.

 

That is some nasty looking equipment! I wouldn't even get in the cab if it looked like that! I'm glad I have my own company truck.

I have seen them start to advertise in truckstop magazines. That's NEVER a good sign for the driver!

 

I know you dont THINK you do, but give them a chance, go get hurt fixing their junk, and than see what they say. You think good ol Matty has your back? think again. you want to milk this "cash cow"? better COVER YOUR ###, anyone with time in there will tell you the same. They are not going to "appreciate" what the driver attempted to do, they are going to go by the book, and the book sez you are a DRIVER, not a mechanic.


Why do you think this company has such a "STELLAR" reputation on this board and others? surely not because they chew up and spit out drivers on a regular basis? I will never say you cannot make some decent dough at CT, but they are a bottomfeeder in THEIR league, and they do not want to have long term employee's, so doing favors for them is only inviting trouble, IMO.

 

like I said, at most non union shops, you donate some time. at YRC or ABF, you go on the clock immediately. you don't even get paid by the minute , you get paid down to the 1/100 of an hour.

 

Don't skip your breaks, it doesnt do anything but bite you in the butt in the long run....

 

Get your app in at UPS, UPS Freight, or ABF before CT tries to ruin your record with bad equipment. I ran for an unscrupulous LTL barn a while ago, CYA, or else. these places are all about screwing people over. The place expected Buf to Albany turns with thruway doubles no matter what winter threw at us. No way to do that legally, I don't care how creative you are.


I don't care what other people say, quit before this place ruins your record. CT was union back when they were a respectable company for a reason. it was the only way to not get screwed over by them.

 

New guys get locked out of terminals all the time if they don't know the procedures for that certain place. Don't look at it bad AT.