Central Transport

maybe their equipment is stepping into less than 30 years old territory, but they make money off crap pay and no benefits for drivers, not by being a decent company to ship with.

no overtime, ever, benefits that are laughable, no retirement, crappy shady ways of paying linehaul drivers.

if there is an LTL company that needs union intervention, its Central Transport.

 

They were union at one point

 

yup, matty boy broke the union up

 

After about a year as a road driver/dock worker on third shift, then you get down on your knees you might get a P&D position. All the road drivers quit with in 1-2 months. A few make it 6-7 months. About .005% last a year, lol. The P&D drivers tend to hang around. You have to be brain dead, wife whooped or extremely lucky to get one of them jobs.

All the managers are nice for about a week. Then they start yelling at the top of their lungs. It took me about two months before I even got a dinner break.

 

I personally don't mind working 3rd shift. But man, you paint a pretty bleak picture. Is the whole LTL industry like this or just this carrier?

 

it all depends on the terminal..the ltl industry has its up ands downs but for me personally I will deal with that, than OTR any day of the week. And every single terminal is different. Every terminal is like a manager's little kingdom and he can run it how he sees within general company guidelines. So the terminal you work out of you may love it while a guy from another terminal 50 miles away hates it. Just depends!

 

I know, they still have "offshoots" of the main company that are union in the Midwest. Pro Logistics and Flint Special Service, maybe others. same yellow trucks, different stickers on the side door. mainly around Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.

 

This is true of most smaller, (crappier) ltl companies, they treat the road drivers like crap, but P&D isn't so bad, since you don't have to make tight service times in the middle of the night. Land Air Express is this way, they pay road drivers the same as p&d, and then expect you to turn a lot of miles fast. break it down, and you are making less than most otr drivers for a mileage rate.

 

What terminal did you work out of? Cleveland?

 

CF out of Mckees Rocks PA ( Pittsburgh ) has a Classified every other week on Craiglist.
Stopped down talked to the Manager few months ago . Pay was decent
Load trailer outta Pittsburgh then go to Cleveland work the dock for 6-8hours then drive back for $230 a day.

He was giving me a tour of the facility. Roof leaking on freight, ZERO employees around. This was 10am on a Thursday. No dispatch, No secretaries.

The trailers and tractors was junk. Oddest company ever applied for. Asked for my application back to make a "correction" and kept it. Slowly talked myself out the door.

http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/trp/3867980595.html

Turn over rate is horrendous.