Truck Driving Jobs

SMB · #1 11-24-2006, 11:26 PM

I have a buddy of mine that is going to Central Refrigerated Service Sunday andf of course he didnt do any research on them, so any info on them would be great! I'm tring to find out if they are an allright company before he goes.

SMB · #2 11-25-2006, 02:38 PM

Nobody has worked or works for Central?

Sealord · #3 11-25-2006, 02:44 PM

Do an archives search of 'em here, at layover.com, roundable.truck.net, ooida.com, newbiedriver.com, and safersys.org.
Personally, I'm not into reefers.
I believe CRS is owned/run by Jerry Moyes' (Swift) daughter and is Dick Simon under new colors. BOL

Bigmon · #4 11-25-2006, 06:36 PM

They have a dumpy office in Fontana,CA. They advertise every weekend in the paper claiming there O/O's make 162k a year.

Think of it as Swift in a different color. They do have some nice looking Volvo's though.

Jackrabbit379 · #5 11-25-2006, 06:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sealord

I believe CRS is owned/run by Jerry Moyes' (Swift) daughter and is Dick Simon under new colors. BOL

I knew that Central Freight Lines is in cahoots with Swift,but Central Refrigerated is the old skunk trucks? :shock: I didn't know that. I wondered what happened to the skunk trucks.

west_coaster · #6 11-25-2006, 08:11 PM

Speaking of the old skunk trucks, my first truck with Gordon was an old Dick Simon truck. 99 Freightshaker FLD, not a bad ride. As far as Central Refrigerated goes, I know a guy who has been with them for a few years. He seems to like them quite a bit. He gets home when he wants to, but mind you it's not too often. Also he said that as far as maintenance goes, they keep up pretty good with the trucks apparently. Other than that I have no idea. Still wear my "free hat" that I got from their recruiter!

West_Coaster

shadowsknight · #7 11-25-2006, 08:15 PM

From their own website:
http://www.centralref.com/AboutUs/history.jsp

Central Refrigerated Service, Inc. was formed in 2002 as a subsidiary of Central Freight Lines, Inc. In April 2002, Central Refrigerated acquired a substantial portion of the operations and assets of the bankrupt estate of Dick Simon Trucking. On December 31, 2002 Central Refrigerated Service, Inc. took to the road independent of Central Freight, highly motivated to secure a respectable reputation of it’s own.

That still makes them a subsidiary of Swift.

cockroach · #8 12-12-2006, 12:41 AM

Search for my old posts.

Stay away from the owner op thing.

kjbprd · #9 12-16-2006, 01:58 AM

as far as i understood they were no longer affiliated with swift as of a year ago or so...i could be wrong...they don't seem like too bad of an outfit compared to the rest of the big reefer carriers...looks to me like every time i pass by their terminal that they're pushing that lease program as hard as england is these days

glasman2 · #10 12-16-2006, 02:16 AM

Ya they push OP. I talked to 1 of there drivers today. Told me he's never home, ( so if you want home time something to think about ) said they push the lease option and that he went that route. Said in 3 years he maybe unloaded 18 boxes, and this year he made $100,000.

Something just didn't smell right when I was talking to him, so I thanked him and said good bye.