Central Refrigerated Truck Stop

The truth is it could be all of the above. i know there are way to many students going through and their turnover has dropped drastically from last years 175% to 75% so the economy has definitly played its hand here. also central is encouraging leases so that they dont have to have the added expense of maintaining such a large fleet.

 

and when you dont lease they'll screw you on miles

 

From what I read on Jolly's lease, there is nothing that even comes close to suggesting he has to have someone take over the lease. The only thing in his that says anything about getting out of hte lease is that he has to give a written notice on or before Nov 1. That is why I took the lease to the lawyer to see if I missed anything. He recently leased, so maybe the new leases aren't including that... there is always fine print with "lingistic gymnastics" ... and since I'm not a lawyer, thought I'd let one tell me what the lease actually does say concerning geting out of it.

 

Your totally right there isn't

What they can and will do is put it on your DAC report which would make it very hard to get another job in this economy!

 

well if they do that i may just have to take them to court over it the reaso i want out of the lease is they refuse to keep me moving im sitting too muchand not enough miles, tahts going to be my reason for leaving and im going to get copies of my load history and all my qualcom traffic so they cant say any stupid stuff and try to say it was my fault

 

I am not trying to be discouraging!!

I was only pointing out if you could get someone to take over the Lease then they really don't have a reason to put anything bad on your DAC.

 

Heres a funny story for you.. i was supposed to pick up a load tomorrow in jonesboro at 1400. i told vicki that i wanted something soonerm she said shed look into it, right after that she went home. this morning i asked her again she said there was still nothing sooner and shed check again after lunch. when i called she was on lunch and i talked to john, and asked him to find out if there was anything. a few minutes later i was unassigned and minutes after that i had another load in russelville that picked up on the 15 th again but this one didnt have an appt time for the pick up. i let them knowthat it needed one before id accept it so i could plan properly, and i was told that it had an all day window lol. so i waited a couple of hours and mac 11 it and wouldnt you know ittwo minutes after that i had a 2100 pick up time 7 hours after the first load i had. dont you just love our planners.

 

i know that i wasnt saying you were lol

 

In another thread somewhere, it is stated that the IRS is also looking into these leases. Their contention is that an L/O is actually a company employee since the L/O does not have the opportunity to lease the truck on with another carrier. Think it is Swift on the hot seat over that one. Hope the IRS wins this one. OMG!!!! Did I actually say that?? IRS win!!!!

Its nice to know (in one way at least), that the L/O problem seems to be industry wide and not just limited to several companies.

Unfortunately, this problem will NOT go away any time soon unless and until our politicians do something about it (fat chance) or it winds it way thru the legal system in 10 or 20 years. Companies say that the biggest cost of business is their drivers but am pretty sure that the battery of lawyers they have is a close 2nd. Just my 2 cents worth.

 

Boy the company has you by the cojones... Central is the Devil...lol LIke you sold your soul...lol The one thing I learned from all this is that before you sign a lease such as this one....make sure that there is a performance contract for both parties....that is that the contract doesn't just deliniate what you the driver can and cannot do, but also what the carrier will do ... for example, minimum number of miles they have to give you. Otherwise, the lease then becomes very one sided and it will feel as though you made a deal with the devil.
Now I am venting: If you are not allowed to contract out, and you can only get the miles from them, when they don't have the miles to give you, you fall behind on your lease payments. Then when your miles do pick up, they take out their money out first...so you don't get paid that week. That is the same arrangement the farmers had after the civil war... the sharecroppers could never get out from under their leases...the farmer got his cut and grew richer whether or not the sharecropper got anything to feed his family.