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The pay is good and is consistent. That's mainly because they have cheaper rates than others. It's not the worst place to work but if you want better benefits and not have to work almost 70 hours a week to make the good money I'd look at other options. Plain and simple with central you get a check not much more.

 

No problem, and another bit of Central Transport trivia is that they were not always a longbox pulling carrier either as everyone sees them now, at one time they did run sets, when they got the Reno, NV terminal up and running, they did dispatch double sets to Sacramento and to Carlin, NV, at one point I think they ran triples trailers to Carlin for a short period of time if my memory recalls .

 

True but even longer than that, in Nevada there were trucking companies still doing 1099 well into the mid 2000s, mostly your Central,Watkins,Fed Ex Ground and California Overnight companies to name a few.

 

i cannot recall seeing any pups on the roads, or in that yard, but then, i can recall many others things..

old age, does that.

 

It's been a very long time since they pulled pups, the funny thing is that I can remember, atleast in Reno when they didn't even exist, I got into this frieght thing a year after Willig Freight Lines went out of business.

 

Does anyone remember the OTHER Central Transport? The union one? I know they had a barn in Harrisburg PA that my uncle worked at.

 

did they have like an off green color with white on the tractors?

 

I was in grade school in the 80s, you have been at this a little longer than me, I can say this, when I got into LTL, atleast in Reno, there were no Old Dominion, R+L, and even Saia for that matter, Yellow and Roadway were separate companies still CF, Nations Way, Motor Cargo, Vecta, Crescent, West Ex, Overnite, Matheson Fast Freight, Anderson and Sons, Viking, ABF and a little company called Applegate were still running the roads then, remember any of them?

 

when i used to drive thru Nevada, and the Vegas area, (i cannot recall if it was I-5?) miles after miles of darkness, then suddenly a casino area and other places all lit up the sky, then back to miles and miles of darkness, till the next casino area....

i had to stop and wet my tires..

i heard this blood curdling screams

freaked me out, i zipped up, in mid stream and made feet back to the cab.

i was later told what i had heard was jack rabbits, being torn apart live by the coyotes....

i hated darkness, especially driving thru Nevada......