company does not meet expectations at all.. The economy is bad and this company keeps hiring.. Many companies have a hiring freeze but they keep hiring here and cutting their long term drivers short of miles..
Crete/Shaffer Trucking
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If you really do use this accusatory and confrontational tone with the above mentioned people, I doubt they'll have much if any sympathy for you. With the chip you have on your shoulder, you wouldn't have an audience with me for very long.
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sincerely hope that you don't think its the company that made it hard for the family leave paperwork. having experience with it, believe me, it's not the company you're employed with...
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I have to agree with her on the miles issue. I've been here 5 years. The 1st was the best, and it's been down hill since. I know it's slow, but like she said, why keep hiring... I was told, during a face to face with some of the mid-level management it's because they need to keep a certain percentage of their trucks filled in order to meet certain customers contract standards. But I don't understand why they just don't stop buying trucks for a little while, then when someone's truck is due to be pulled out of the fleet, move them into an empty truck instead of putting a new-hire in. That way, the truck is filled, the percentage of filled trucks is up, and we are cutting the freight pie into fewer and fewer pieces until the economy picks up. But I don't have that diploma on the wall from some overpriced liberal think-tank college, so what do I know. I just know from what people tell me, when Mr. Acklie was at the helm, most of his drivers would give him the shirt off their back if he asked... how many drivers would even speak to the guy we have now unless their jobs depended on it. ( I use 'the guy we have now' because I was called on the carpet for making my post personal on the family....even though he's not blood, they still consider him family) I have never met the man personally, but from speaking to those that have, I haven't heard many nice things about him...so my opinion of the guy is solely based on others opinion and hearsay. But if I talk to a couple dozen people from different parts of the country that all swear they saw a pig fly, I'd tend to walk around with a big umbrella for a while. Or at least keep an eye to the sky.
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Are you are saying that they shouldnt hire any more drivers to replace the ones who leave and the company shouldn't buy new trucks... ? If the driver pool is lean then what happens to the customer? Not enough drivers to satisfy the needs of the customer and not enough trucks to replace the old ones. What do you do about the needs of the customer that you're trying to keep? Do you just tell the customer you don't have enough trucks to take care of their business? Right now every carrier is trying to keep the accounts that they have and trying to secure new business. Everyone is out there trying to slash rates and do everything that they can to keep and get that business. If you think that any customer is going to stand by a carrier who can't take care of their service needs, you are sadly mistaken. It just doesnt happen that way. I don't work for Crete but I do know that they have some pretty good accounts that any carrier would do the dance of joy to have. Another thing I don't think they've done is slash rates like so many of the others have. I could be wrong about that but don't think so. That's how they remain profitable and don't have any problems meeting payroll and paying their bills.
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They have a number of problems at Crete. We have taken over a couple of accounts recently that they couldn't seem to service right. Not sure of what all the problems, be they in dispatch or the drivers, but I talked with these customers we started hauling for and they said that Crete's biggest problem was that they couldn't seem to deliver or pickup on time. One lady that worked in shipping at a pickup in Ohio said that she was always having to work overtime because the Crete trucks wouldn't show up on time to pickup. Now she can actually go home in the afternoon like normal people.
Could this be due to the driver pool not large enough to service the customer? Who knows. I would probably be inclined to believe that no one thing is at fault. I am sure dispatch was at fault part of the time by not tagging a truck to the load and getting it picked up on time. I am sure that a driver or two overslept and missed delivery appt. Either way, I have had to pick up the slack from about a dozen places this last year cause Crete couldn't cover things like they should.
Maybe they shouldn't hire any more drivers until they get logistics figured out.
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I read your post. This thread was about Crete. Since Crete has drivers/ and trucks lined up in truckstops and terminals for days waiting to be dispatched it is glaringly apparent they don't need to be hiring new drivers. Ton wants to replace older drivers that make higher CPM with newer drivers with lower CPM nothing more , nothing less. This economy is the avenue that allows that. Do a web search on Ton O and him tallking about the average age of Crete's drivers and how a economy downturn would be a good thing for Crete as it would bring new drivers into the industry.
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