How can you say they pay you a fair wage?? I you have just 5 hours per week unpaid think of what that does for an hourly rate. The work conditions at CT are some of the worst in the business and the trucks are junk. They will run you over hours if you don't stand up to management. MM makes so much money with what he pulls from the bridge, real estate and other trucking that CT is a big fat write off for him. When things were good CT was operation at a 102-106 for an O/R. That gets posted in TT magazine. They will take what they can from an employee and once you have had enough you can leave and then fight for pay owed and vacation time too. Why do you think you get a check every week and no direct deposit. I understand that things a tough out here but this is no place to hang your hat. If you do just understand what the owners are about.

At this time it has become an employers market. If jobs were plentiful a driver could be alot more selective. Will those days ever come again or will this recession/depression deepen??
We all can be hopeful that things will turn around but as of right now everybody is hurting in the trucking business.
My grandfather ran a bread route back in the depression and worked long and hard for little money but his family was taken care of and that is what its all about. Everybody knows Central is a nasty place with junk equipment in all departments....I prefer to eat and live in my home than to not work somewhere or be back on unemployment from my "good job" that folded without the proper WARN notice and left us all(1200 employees and 10 terminals) hangin...we all have to take care of our family no matter what the sacrifices are...So I guess a fair wage may be a bit overstated....lets just say....a living wage.

Wow DOT and JoeV - Sounds like both of you need to begin a start up and run a trucking company exactly how you would run that company. Call it Perfection Carriers! Let me know how it works out for you after the first year. I'm sure that your employees will say nothing but good things about it.

Now being serious, some of your statements may be true but many of them are very inflated and really an outright lie from my experience at least. Not sure what terminal you're located at but ours have hr hotline numbers posted to call if your manager is not taking care of things like a payroll error.

Joe, we get paid for breakdown and if you're on a relay and are delayed by your meet driver you get paid for that delay. We also get the 15 minute dock pay when we hit an AC to help for fuel time and safety lanes. 15 minutes is not a lot but it's something. I'll give you the time on the cell phone can become excessive. Good Luck man!

Originally Posted by JoeV1001
Central Transport relies heavily on getting drivers to do things and not get paid for the tasks...No pay for any kind of delays whatsoever...no pay for roadservice....you handle the problem with their junk unmaintained equipment...your time,your cell phone...all for Centrals selfishness...no pay for fueling....no pay for yard time spotting your trailer in a cluster fock of others scammering around to spot theirs...no pay for getting your forktruck ready to go and weighed in for your dock work. you dont get paid until you scan your first piece of freight and then you go under the scrutiny of the "Handling Units" per hour equaition....they want you to jump thru hoops for the measley 19 bucks an hour for starting dock time....its like a dollar a piece of freight no matter what you have to go thru to get it off of one trailer into another. a pitiful system for determining production...they screw people so bad their philosophy is everybody is out to screw them...they squeeze-squeeze-squeeze to get every little bit of free work off of their drivers....it really is amazing how they can retain any drivers at all...I talked to a guy who seemed like the know all tell all central driver/dock-new hire trainer and asked him how long he had been there...he said 10 months...this folks is not a good sign...IF you desparately need a job this would be an option for work...If you are thinking that your company sucks and Central is better....Beware of that kind of thinking...theyre not a good company....plan on long hours every week and at least 7 hours per week that will be for free.

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A payroll error is a whole different thing. Ive been held up for as much as 3 hours in a day and said something to my terminal manager about it and he said..."well youve got to expect that" No offer of pay to cover my time whatsoever.
When you work for Central Transport you work for free alot of the time...No Exageration...at least 6 hours a week goes unpaid each and every week...I really cant wait for the economy to turn around so I can tell them good bye...Mr Golfer seems to work at a good terminal...I didnt know there was one but good for you Mr Golfer....theyre screwing the rest of us.

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