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I don't have a load either, but I'm at the house with a massive glass of Oban Scotch. It's amazing how hard it hits you after being dry for 7 weeks.
7 weeks on the road? Is that what it takes to make $60k at Crete. Rental cars, steak dinners,hotels, and Cubs games will knock $60k to $45k in a hurry.

You don't come across as the typical dumb truck driver. But, in the words of Randy Moss, "Like I told you, man, things are so fishy, and fishy, ... It's fishy around here." ET the math just doesn't work!

Nothin personal, just an observation
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That seems to be the norm in PA lately. I lost a day up there last week and just turned down a nice quick drop/hook load going there and took a less than desirable two stop, night delivery just to avoid spending another day in the Wawa (disregard the "No overnight parking", they don't enforce it, I was there for a 34reset). By the way, there is a great place to eat just a few buildings north of the Wawa called Bostons. They have amazing food and HD bigscreens to watch the games on. Also, that hotdog place one building north, I think it's called Yacco's has really good dogs for $1.23, great hole in the wall kind of place. It's just a matter of making the best of a bad situation. PA is definitely becoming an outbound dead zone.

Thanks for the restaurant tip. Im at the wawa right now. I delivered in breinigsville today (saturday) before sunrise and was informed there was no freight untill atleast monday.
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Not for me i dropped in fogelsville fri nite they had me preplaned to bethelhem fri going to johnstown ny sat.and have me preplaned for baldwinsville ny 0300 sunday to howell mi monday..before i got any loads off...whew wonder if i can take a short-cut through canada
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I'm going to have a problem getting HazMat because of a long-ago lawsuit (long story), but don't want to be fired for not having it. So, does anyone know just how strict the Crete requirement for HazMat endorsement is? Will they actually fire a driver for not having it?
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7 weeks on the road? Is that what it takes to make $60k at Crete. Rental cars, steak dinners,hotels, and Cubs games will knock $60k to $45k in a hurry.

You don't come across as the typical dumb truck driver. But, in the words of Randy Moss, "Like I told you, man, things are so fishy, and fishy, ... It's fishy around here." ET the math just doesn't work!

Nothin personal, just an observation
HMMM...$10 at the Truck Stop Wendy's or the OUTBACK special for $12...

Priceline hotels at half price vs. the Truck Driver Motor Inn (Roaches Free)

Cubs games tickets bought off Stub Hub

Add: A wife that works at a well paying job and that fishy smell goes quickly away....

nothing personal, just another observation from a typical dumb reader of this thread.
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I'm going to have a problem getting HazMat because of a long-ago lawsuit (long story), but don't want to be fired for not having it. So, does anyone know just how strict the Crete requirement for HazMat endorsement is? Will they actually fire a driver for not having it?
Yep, both Crete and Shaffer require hazmat. In fact, they started requiring hazmat for Shaffer earlier this year. Hunt (Crete's flatbed division) does not that I am aware of.

When my husband got hired on with Crete, he had already passed his hazmat class and just didn't have time to get his fingerprinting done. About a month into Crete, they told him to get it done on his next home time. They will reimburse you $100 unless that changed.

I also would like to thank EverTruckrr (sp?) for starting this thread. I enjoy it even though I don't post as much. Keep the stories coming. Wish I was a storyteller, but I ain't!
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I don't want to tread on the Crete thread here so I'll be brief - pay is in line with other national carriers ie: 37-44 cpm or so depending on experience and fleet chosen. No difference in loaded/empty miles. Don't think there is any preference given to O/Os for loads though they do have their own set of managers (DBLs). I'm just out of orientation so dont really know much detail about operations here but there doesn't seem to be a shortage of loads. Too bad no one in Schneider has taken the baton and tried a similar thread here at truckersreport- I'll be in a dedicated fleet so my experience won't really reflect what it is like for National fleet drivers.
I get the impression that Schneider made changes in the last decade that turned their company for the better - googling articles in business magazines you find almost all positive spin about management, loads, and profitablitlity at SN. As an OTR driver for Sunflower and Crete since 1996 I never really had any opinion about them (SN) and haven't seen much about them here either which I took as a good sign. APUs, according to my Crete manager last month, aren't available at the moment so installations have stopped but someone here said they were still installing them, so who knows? good luck and safe miles - bruceb.
Sorry, I didn't mean to start anything about Schneider. <G> Why don't you start a thread? LOL.... Schneider was not that bad of a company when we drove for them. Just didn't pay well. Their equipment was not top notch, but they did have good safety record. One good thing about them is that they have very nice OC's especially in Portland...Nice clean showers to boot! Good luck at Pumpkin Patch!

We do miss Crete, but the company we are driving for isn't all that bad either. The only problem is that we are not allowed to chain up. At least, our backs will be saved this winter.... Hopefully we won't be sitting as much due to snow conditions. However we are doing I-5 Corridor so it can't be that bad.
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Anyone remember what time orientation starts in th PA terminal?
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HMMM...$10 at the Truck Stop Wendy's or the OUTBACK special for $12...

Priceline hotels at half price vs. the Truck Driver Motor Inn (Roaches Free)

Cubs games tickets bought off Stub Hub

Add: A wife that works at a well paying job and that fishy smell goes quickly away....

nothing personal, just another observation from a typical dumb reader of this thread.

Elementary my dear Watson. Why the "glamorous" otr life when ET can drive a garbage truck and be home everynight enjoying the fruits of the fair lady's labor and love.

Not trying to start a ruckus. It's just that the constant drone of a diesel engine and the abject loneliness bend a trucker's reality. I think Einstein predicted the driver's bent reality somewhere in his General Theory of Relativity. The empirical evidence can be found at any truckstop.

ET's signature line is a rejection of reality. Has it occurred to anyone that this thread is but the fictional utterings of another trucker detached from reality

We talk to driver's everyday. They tell us the unbelievable right to our face. U think we are more honest on the internet?

Anyways, from one dumb trucker to another I find that a ticket to a sporting event is the price of admission to start spending the REAL money
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HMMM...$10 at the Truck Stop Wendy's or the OUTBACK special for $12...

Priceline hotels at half price vs. the Truck Driver Motor Inn (Roaches Free)

Cubs games tickets bought off Stub Hub

Add: A wife that works at a well paying job and that fishy smell goes quickly away....

nothing personal, just another observation from a typical dumb reader of this thread.

PS - I'm not trying to flame this thread.
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