Central Refrigerated Truck Stop III

Congrats and thanks for the info don't K ow for sure if I am going to go through with being a trainer or stay with this company to long wife is not happy being home alone with 4 kids and 2 dogs. So may just put some time in till I find a local job that is not seasonal.

 

Hello all, first post! I've been away from OTR for 3yrs, driving locally here in PA. Work is slow and I'm going to go back OTR. I used to be a lease operator at Roehl Transport (for 2yrs) and was very successful and really enjoyed it. But as I was looking online Central caught my eye and I filled out an application. Got off the phone today with Cameron (recruiter) who says after orientation I would be able to move right into a lease program with them! I was very excited to hear that because once you've been a lease op its hard to go back as a company driver. Roehl is still an option but would require me to go back as a company driver for 6mths.

From all I've read on here and from what Cameron has told me, Central seems to be very similar to Roehl's program, but could you lease op's give me a break down on your fixed expenses and what they come to? What does Central cover? Examples; permits, plates, QUALCOMM, highway use taxes, tolls, lumpers....

Cameron also mentioned they offer 587 and 386 petes which they don't have on their website, is this true?. He did say they both have 13 peed tyranny's which is awesome, cuz even my Roehl lease trk had only a 10sp.

Thanks for all replies!

 

I'm in a 13 speed 386 now. It's the only truck I've had with Central so far. Altogether I pay $835/wk fixed. You do have to build up a performance bond in case you abandon the truck, $200 up front and 40/ mo for the remainder. But this is all based on what I went through. As I understand it, our mileage pay is a little higher than Swift's, but I don't know if other things are different to even out the pay scales or not..? So since most of us are grandfathered in, a swift l/o would probably be the closest to telling you how it is for them. Good luck man.

 

Thank you very much for the info. My fixed cost were about the same with Roehl. Well I'll give Cameron a call tomorrow and hopefully start orientation on the 3rd.

 

You have my sincere condolences.

 

What kind of mpg do you get in the 386,if you don't mind me asking?

unloader

 

Clean filters and me solo I can keep it above 7.5, with a student it's 6-7... I've seen over 8 a few trips but I haven't been able to maintain it yet!

 

Congratulations!

 

So, we missed our exit and turned around (always fun off the 99 around Stockton), and then we got routed to a residential neighborhood 14 miles from shipper! Then went to the shipper's directions and it was the wrong warehouse address!! We finally made it to the other destination and since they had to wait on us they said here's your paperwork when it turns green you can go. We waited and started working on routing and scale... Blah blah. Student says, I don't see a green light. What? Ok, no light. No one in office. Dock plate is removed and paperwork claims multi stop load. Can't do an arrival or a loaded call so waiting on customer service. Took 15 minutes to get 4 pallets. And now we've been on standby 1.5 hrs!! Lol, I'm thinking for 3,000 miles on a 5,000 lb load I don't really care if they pay for stop 2. As long as it's on the way just let me run!!!