Team Pay for CRST

A little advice for newbies.Get 2 cheep c.b's.1 dashmount and 1 handheld.Makes backing into tight spots much easier.No more hand signals from 70ft away!.

 

Each driver gets paid for half the miles that the truck is dispatched on. What you get paid per mile has nothing to the team, per se. There are teams out there who one gets $.46/mile, and the other gets $.24/mile; both because of their relative levels of experience.
No one splits $.33/mile, or $.46/mile, or whatever. The miles are split between the drivers.

 

Or you could learn how to back up based on the dimensions of the truck and trailer relative to the size of the parking space and never need to use walkie-talkies.

The truth of the matter is, backing, like everything else that truck drivers do is a skill. It can be learned (i.e.--by developing muscle memories) and conditioned to have a good outcome every time. It doesn't make any difference if you're tired, it's late, it's raining, it's dark, or your butt hurts from digging at it too much! It's not some hit or miss venture that you can't control! If you have the skill, you can do it, not matter what. If you don't...work on it. But don't develop a dependency on having someone guide you into a spot with a walkie-talkie.

What will you do when that person isn't available to do guide you in, then?

 

dont use a guide. get out and LOOK! Thanks to my ground guide I almost ripped a fender of a truck, something in my head said stop. sure enough ground guide wasnt even looking at my blind side! was 1 inch from hitting a schnieder truck.

 

Problem is CRST doesnt get this. They tell you in orientation you arent allowed to back up without someone outside the truck watching..even if you are a solo driver.

They never even mention getting out and looking.

When i worked there, most of my co-drivers had the mentality of just backing up and hoping they dont hit something. I never got that, how can you back up without knowing whats on the blind side?

I drive a tanker now, if i back my trailer into anything, it's a big deal. And hell, our yard is so tight it's literally impossible to manuever a dry van in...and not the most fun thing either with a 40' tank...

Luckily I run foodgrade. So its more of the, "Oh, hey, your load is on the ground at the truckstop" than the "OMG THERES 5000 GALLONS OF TOXIC WASTE ON THE GROUND!!!!!!!" kinda thing.....but our loads are still hazmat, haha..

I was a solo driver over at werner, was at one place that was...apparently impossible to back my truck into due to the way the snow was plowed and piled up in front of my door...Ground guide told me, keep coming back, keep the wheel cranked...youre fine keep going!

My trailer was fine...my bumper was getting ready to hit the snow. Anyone who's ever driven a cascadia knows that you don't touch that bumper to a snow bank...its plastic, with no metal behind it at all...it'll rip right off as soon as it hits the ice thats under teh snow...No thanks.

I had to refuse to put it in the dock. It was a drop/hook rolltainer take-off warehouse for dollar general (empties trailers out for backhauls), so basically most of the trailers were empty and staying that way... i was told to pull a trailer out of the door next to my door, put it somewhere else (more reasonable), and then put mine in the dock. *that* worked, but pissed people off while i had three trailers dropped on the street...rofl...

 

I have been told by a recruiter that I will be paid for my time in the military, that they will take 25% of my total time in the service and that will be how I get paid. Has anyone have any info about this