Crete Carrier Corportation 2¢ Pay Increase

Go ahead. Say Prime.... Wasn't long ago they were tearing up the highways. Different story now.

 

I pulled for them for 11 months and did 125.9k paid miles. Florida drivers make 2 cents a mile less than what is posted. I was required 21 days out. Western drivers are required even longer.

 

I used to think that before I became a trucker. But when I pass that 62 mph truck and get to the dock door before the lumpers go home for the night, that crete will have to wait overnight until they reopen while I am on my way to the next shipper.

 

If I am not mistaken, I believe that Prime's trucks are governed at 57 miles per hour.

From my understanding, some drivers don't mind it at all, other drivers outright hate it.

 

if you had common sense you would realize that the lumpers may take three hours to unload me which doesnt leave enough time for crete to be unloaded after me in the same night. This happens all of the time.

 

"Affordable", but the huge threshold before it pays a dime still makes it worthless as anything but catastrophic coverage. You're still getting screwed, and subsidizing the $0 threshold coverage enjoyed by corporate executives.

There, that feels better, don't it...?

 

Im not near the top of pay scale and made mid-50s last year. Take that argument to Heartland's board (but you already found that out! ). If I'm out for a full week, it's rare for me to run fewer than 2700-2800 miles. And I'm not trying to kill it either...I don't feel the need to get every possible mile out of my clock. At 53, I simply don't care to.

 

This I agree with. My disdain for Crete's SA program is well documented.

 

ALL the warehouses with lumpers I go to have more than one dock, and more than one lumper. So if I slowly drive and arrive by my appointment time, I get unloaded too.
BUT,
If you were to beat me to this warehouse you claim exists, I guess I'll have to wait all night and get paid detention.