Central Refrigerated Truck Stop II

Here's a question for some of you more experienced drivers that my trainee brought up today. "What is the lesser of the two tickets bridge/kingpin or over weight?" This came up today when we were loaded to 79000lbs and could get legal on the axles but then king pin was set to 41'(CA). I informed him that I always check the load and will go back to the shipper and have them reload the trailer so I have never gotten either ticket.
Any thoughts?

 

Don't. Mind snowy he never has anything positive to say.

 

As others have said it wilk help you pass the DMV test. Your true training starts on your trainers truck. Also like others have said it is important to take ownership of your training, ask questions, do your workbook early so you can see the lessons in action with your trainer and know what questions to ask.
Check out "follow me through centrals training" thread. For more detailed information on training.

 

It's CA, so there's no reason to chance either, because you know you'll get one there. Outside of CA I would go with legal weight, because it's easier to catch that rolling through a scale than say 43' KP.
As far as which is cheeper, I have no idea, as I wont risk overweight and NEVER over 40' in CA. No tickets yet.

Side note, why so heavy? When I was running out of stockton we never put over ~36k in the box. Have they gotten heavier?

 

You get an on time bonus quarterly of .01/mi if you're above 97% on time. 96.5-96.999% gets .005/mi

 

I put my time in with central, even leased. Yes, I was an idiot. I made a little money, but for a solo it just isn't worth it. Team lease or becoming a trainer seems to be the most feasible way to make money. As for company drivers, just remember, central is a training company. You'd be wise to put in your time and move on.

You'll won't fully understand how much BS you put up with working for Central until you leave.

 

For the ontime bonuses. I got mine this week. $518 for 37 loads cones to $14/load. So it is better than the old plan as long as you stay above 97% ontime. I was 100% and have to deal with students who say they will drive 6hrs then 3hrs in say they are tired so we have to sit until my 10 is up, thats hard to trip plan how your codriver is going to feel day to day. My point, 97% is very doable.

 

Thanks p4p I agree just don't get a ticket, but I thought I would put it out there to try to answer my students question.
That load was out of omst. You're right usually were only putting 30-35k in the box, but this is my 2nd load to umrsp and each time they put 44,500 in the box. Add to that I have a 500pound student and all his junk your gross goes up quick.

 

i'm a positive guy.

and i didn't say anything that others that have already been down that road have also said.

LEASING IS FOR IDIOTS THAT WANNA WORK FOR FREE.

you pay central to get a job and you pay central to keep a job.

central never keeps there trucks longer then 3 years. and i've been around long enough to know that new trucks spend more time getting warranty work done then they do actually working.

but since you've only been driving for 1 year. you would know that.

 

Lets see you may be positive in person, but the impression that I get from reading your posts are usually negitive.I am a lease opperator and I do not work for free, I made $3400 last week, last time I checked that is not free. As it has been stated in the past who cares whi you are paying the money to as long as the money in your check is right. Granted I could buy a truck, shell iut $10-30k for a down payment and have less of a monthly payment, but not by much and then not after you factor in the lost purchasing power of the down payment. (Let me know if you need this explained to you I do have a masters degree in business so sometimes I assume people know what I am talking about, especially when they seem to know everything). Also at the end of my loan I would be stuck with a truck with well over 600,000 miles that my many students have beat to a pulp. Personally I would rather lease a new/newer truck and then pass rhe problems on to someone else once I am done with it. If I were to decide to stop training, as I have said in the past, I would then buy a truck, knowing that I will take good care of it and it will last me for a long time. As far as new trucks being in the shop all the time, for me that is not true, except for planned preventitive maintance, my truck has been in the shop once and that was for an electrical short and it took them a whooping 6hrs to fix. Personally if your trip planning is so bad that being down for 6hrs is going to make or break you, you need to find a new line of work, and I woukd agree in that case it would be better to be a company driver.