Go to the "refresher" course May 21st.

Discussion in 'CRST' started by SkoalBandit, May 7, 2012.

  1. SkoalBandit

    SkoalBandit Light Load Member

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    I have been out of a truck for over 3 years, so apparently I am required to take a refresher course. Which I dont necassarily disagree with. What I am hoping is that CRST isnt like the Blue Screw (Werner). Everyone has their opinions on CRST, just like everyone did with Werner.

    This should be "fun" :biggrin_25523::biggrin_25523:
     
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  3. wowo6057

    wowo6057 Light Load Member

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    I worked for CRST back in 09, no complaints. They were fair. My only problem was the whole team thing, I want to do what I want to do, not the other guy. They have good equipment and yards, only bad on is Carlile Pa (dont think I spelled it right) That place is a hole. But over all a good experience.
    Good luck
     
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  4. Professional-Trucker

    Professional-Trucker Heavy Load Member

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    If. A person is anti-social then Crst is not a good place to work.:biggrin:25515:eek:
     
  5. Eagle_Eye

    Eagle_Eye Medium Load Member

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    If a person is Anti-pay Anti-hometime Anti truth Anti benifiets and anti family they should fit in fine at Crusty
     
  6. SkoalBandit

    SkoalBandit Light Load Member

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    Hah, well I just got an email from a recruiter wanting me to sign a contract, and I told him...I am not signing anything, and if thats an issue, forget it. I already have my cdl and they want me to go back for it again, give me a break. We'll see how this pans out...I dont hold much hope though, cause I'm not signing ####!
     
  7. Professional-Trucker

    Professional-Trucker Heavy Load Member

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    I don't care how anyone puts it or verbs it. If person is new to any industry they should expect to pay for their schooling/training. Nothing is free. ....especially here. If you don't like it, you can always try swift of c r england.:biggrin_2559:
     
  8. SkoalBandit

    SkoalBandit Light Load Member

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    psst....I already got the license back in 2007....they want me to do a "refresher course"
     
  9. train

    train Bobtail Member

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    well ive been trucken sence 1986 and i went to a colleage in ft.scot kansas for my truck training iv sent my last wife therw there in 02 now im sending my currennt wife therw and this drove for cfi in 05 and 06 but drove an automatic so needs a refresher corse this 1 is 3 weeks long and with that and your past exp.you will do fine iv leased my trucks to lots of companys the big one are the same all of them i think the longer you are out hrer the more you will see that good luck
     
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  10. Fatmando

    Fatmando Medium Load Member

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    Well, in nearly every other job on the planet, from gravedigger to astronaut, on-the-job training is free. You have to get your own degree and/or professional licenses, but anything that the employer requires you to do beyond that is normally considered paid time on the job. "Financial planning" scams try to make you pay them to train you for their commission sales "jobs", but NASA trains it's astronauts for free - and pays them for the time that they spend in training, whether or not they ever even see the inside of a rocket.

    What's next? Instead of signing bonuses, can we expect to pay a fee to get hired on, in the future? Like the "financial planning" companies, who require prospective employees to carry professional licenses issued by their employers (and meaningless elsewhere), can we expect to be subjected to required safety licensing fees, exacted from us by our employers? Perhaps forklift drivers should be required to pay their employers for their company-issued forklift licenses? Doctors should perhaps pay hospitals for the privilege of internship? Should prospective civil servants have to pay a fee to take the civil service exam? There are scams like this (and people stupid enough to fall for them), but they aren't perpetrated by civil service employers. Yet...

    I have to be a little dubious about a company that is so concerned about ensuring that it's drivers are safe on the road, that they require additional company-provided training that the driver has to pay for. It seems at though this creates an incentive for the company to show hiring preference towards those that they can lock into indentured servitude, this way - something that has supposedly been illegal in this country, for a very long time. With considerable consistency, jobs that you have to pay to get, usually turn out not to be what you thought you were paying for. This is true for sales jobs, work-at-home scams, employment recruiters (the ones that charge the applicant), and it seems likely to be true of trucking companies, as well. It almost invariably takes advantage of the desperate, rather than seriously improving the quality of the workforce. What makes trucking companies so special and unique, that this should be an accepted business practice for them, but a scam for everyone else? If they are so concerned about our driving skills, why can't they require employer-provided training the way that everyone else does - as paid OJT?

    I'm curious as to how much that responding owner-operator charges team drivers or trainees that he works with, to get on his truck...?

    "Paying your dues" is an outdated concept. I spent ten years getting a couple of engineering degrees, and then several more years "paying my dues" being worked like a dog for near-poverty wages as an engineering "intern" or "junior". I managed to actually make decent wages for about four years before the entire industry picked up and moved to India. Truck drivers are being imported from Mexico and elsewhere, so if you think that this is an industry where you can count on surviving long enough to "pay your dues", you're rolling the dice. Google already has a car that drives itself and is legal on the road, doing so - and trains are a much cheaper way to move freight across the country than trucks are. It no longer makes sense to "pay your dues" into an industry; chances are that you won't benefit in the long run, anyway, because the long run is entirely unpredictable. Ten years from now, freight might be moved largely (or even entirely) automatically, and many of us might be forced to settle for jobs on loading docks, as lumpers.

    It's a high horse that our owner-operator friend is riding. And a long way down, if he should happen to fall off. I should know; I've fallen off it, myself.
     
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  11. Rotten

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    Most of the drivers that went to the class back in November at Kirkwood did 2 weeks and had to pay 900$ for the opportunity. It is what it is at CRST. There are other companies will just put you out with a trainer. The company I am with does that. I paid off crusty and love where I am. Two weeks at the Taj Mahall in Cedar Rapids is not fun.
     
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