Originally Posted by bbmyls2go

that's the first I have ever heard of orientation at Knoxville - they do orientation at Marietta, GA not Knoxville. That old terminal was bought from a regional outfit and not upgraded because they are currently building a state of the art terminal and maintenance facility just west of the I-40 / I-75 split near the 369mm.
The terminal is a drop lot and IS the trailer maintenance facility which is why they were all "junky", there is a second building at the bottom of the hill that does tractor repairs.
Once they move into the new place, that will leave Spartanburg, SC as the hellhole terminal of the company (2 steps better than DeLand, FL).
I've never been put in a bad motel with them either, so unfortunately it sounds like someone has goofed and I hope you were honest and brought it to their attention. Orientation at Marietta is what you have imagined - a nice modern facility, classroom training, catered lunches and a company car for drivers to use to shuttle to and from the motel.

Originally Posted by lockehmmr

Anyone that will be going to Crete's Knoxville Tn terminal for orientation, this is a warning. Appearance is everything to me and the appearance of the Knoxville terminal is disgusting. I thought it was a drop yard so I looked around and couldn't find anything that looked like a terminal. This place is nasty and all of trailers there were junky. They had about 3 trucks on the lot and all of them looked terrible.

I'm new to the trucking business so I don't have a clue if this is how it really is out here, but I couldn't bring myself to go to orientation after staying at a ratty motel and looking at my home terminal. All of Nashville terminals look like terminals, so that's what I expected when I drove up to Knoxville. Man, it made me mad.

So i paid for my motel room myself. (Crete didn't reserve one for me, that sucked.) Paid for my rent a car, didn't want anything to do with oweing Crete anything.

So I'm warning all new drivers signing up for Crete's Knoxville terminal to run as fast as you can, because it not what you would expect from a Big Company like Crete.

Did I mention that I was the only one there for orientation, that also raised a red flag when I was checking in.

Please help me on this matter, is this what I can expect or is this just me. Thanks

Originally Posted by bailey

I DONT KNOW WHEN YOU POSTED THIS BUT THEY ARE REPLACING THAT TERMINAL WITH A 5 MILLION DOLLOR ONE..YEAH I AGREE ITS BAD BUT ITS TEMP..NOT ALOT OF ROOM IN KNOXVILLE IN CASE YA DIDNT NOTICE..LOL..AND MOST PEOPLE ARE GIVEN A TRUCK AFTER UA'S AND ORIENTATION IS IN LINCOLN, NE UNLESS YOU HAVENT BEEN DRIVING THAT LONG THEN OF COURSE THEY NEED TO GET TO KNOW ABOUT YOU AND YOUR ABILITIES BEFORE THEY PUT YA IN A $100K TRK/TRLR AND LET YA DRIVE OFF...AND LINCOLN IS A NICE TERMINAL (ALTHOUGH I AVOID IT LIKE THE PLAGUE)

Originally Posted by bbmyls2go

that's the first I have ever heard of orientation at Knoxville - they do orientation at Marietta, GA not Knoxville. That old terminal was bought from a regional outfit and not upgraded because they are currently building a state of the art terminal and maintenance facility just west of the I-40 / I-75 split near the 369mm.
The terminal is a drop lot and IS the trailer maintenance facility which is why they were all "junky", there is a second building at the bottom of the hill that does tractor repairs.
Once they move into the new place, that will leave Spartanburg, SC as the hellhole terminal of the company (2 steps better than DeLand, FL).
I've never been put in a bad motel with them either, so unfortunately it sounds like someone has goofed and I hope you were honest and brought it to their attention. Orientation at Marietta is what you have imagined - a nice modern facility, classroom training, catered lunches and a company car for drivers to use to shuttle to and from the motel.