Central Refrigerated Truck Stop III

It always makes me wonder how they can trust us with a $ 120,000 truck and a $ 66,000 trailer but can't trust us to buy an $18 gallon of antifreeze.

 

Truck and product have insurance. There's no insurance against angry employees selling additives.

 

Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster I can just go to a truck stop and by what I need and turn the reciept in. That's a lot to go through for a bottle of coolant.

 

Be careful doing that. Under 20 dollars you're good. But over 20 you have to have a po number issued by your dm.

 

I don't work for Central/Swift. Was always looking into Central but they were not interested in me at the time, they had the same deal Stevens did, because I was an experienced driver and wasn't willing to lease, they had no interest in me. But I know quite a few Swift and Central guys, never had much bad to say about either.

 

Buckeye, you are my friend and I know you are right. It's a respect thing for me.

***warning, rant ahead***

When I first started with this company, qualcomms were so new that we still carried an ashtray full of quarters so we could call Salt Lake City (West Valley City) when we had a question. It felt like we were a team-- I called my FM my Travel Agent because he told me where to go and got directions if necessary.

The mechanics responded to anything you needed because they understood that they are an important part of the team and they had the resources and the trust to get the job done. I remember they used to call up a driver and say, "I hear you are in Cheyenne. We have a truck overheating on I-80. Can you grab a couple gallons of antifreeze and help out on your way by."

We trusted each other-- Hell, we had to trust each other because back then we needed to do whatever necessary to get the job done.

There was PRIDE in trucking for this company, from the kids in the wash bay all the way up to the CEOs of Nestle and Kraft, who knew we could get the job done.

 

yeah. There is no respect anymore. Dms get angry if you call them instead of qualcomming them. Mechanics get angry if you make them do work. Etc etc.

i wish there here was something we could do to change it. But from the looks of it, I don't see anything I can do besides keep driving, enjoying my job, and still show that respect to other people in this industry, even if I have to bite my tounge and show the respect to the a holes of the industry, at least I know I'm not being an a hole myself.

 

Best wishes to the Klingons on starting their new adventure!