Crete carrier

I have to call BS on this one. Crete will never, and I mean NEVER, ask you to knowingly run illegal. I have been with them for nearly five years. In that time I have been offered a few loads that I couldn't do legally. All I had to do was tell dispatch I didn't have the hours and that was that. No threats, no playing games, nothing. As far as breakdown pay is concerned I was broke down for 2 separate 4 day periods last year and never had any trouble with either hotel reimbursement or breakdown pay.

As far as miles are concerned, I just got home from being out 30 days. I ran nearly 15,000 paid miles in that time frame and I am at .45 cpm. The first half of last year did suck as it did for just about everybody. But I still ended up with enough miles to get my pay raise.

Sounds to me like maybe your friend was a PITA to deal with.

 

I agree Longbow.Sounds like BS to me. I have never been pressured to run illegal, just the opposite actually. And the two times that I have had breakdown issues, was reimbursed for the hotel room on my next check. I have never sat for 2 days unless I was doing a reset. So, I'm just not buying the story as told.

 

I'm not a part of forums like this one as a professional to bash companies. Anything I do post on here or anywhere else is the truth.

Dispatchers can make or break a company..and if you read on about other issues folks have with this company, you'll BOTH see that 1) she truly isn't the only one having trouble with them and 2) she was Not a "PITA", "Long"bow.

I am one of three she called on when she was so exhausted they ran her to death..and I DID have to tell her on more than one occasion that the run they gave her in the time she had was ILLEGAL. I don't blame her for leaving Crete. I'd have done the same thing.

It's bashers like you two that give real professionals like us a bad rap.

 

Your friend needed to learn to say NO, and mean it. If she was exhausted, she should not have been driving. If the run was more than she had hours to run, all she had to do was say NO I do not have the hours to make a safe and legal delivery.

You also imply that she had in the past ran illegal, since it happened more than once. That is on her, not dispatch, as she took the load.

Sorry but it is people LIKE you who give professionals a bad rap.

 

if your out of hours. time to park it. Your cdl is your bread and butter. Dont put it on the firing line for anyone.

 

Dispatch did not already know before they offered it to you? OK

There are many ways a company can get a driver to run illegal when they are being paid on a piece rate. Why do you think drivers come here complaining about no miles at xyz company while others at the same company are doing just fine. Even though it is ultimately up to the driver whether they except the load or not the mere fact that a company would send a load to me that they already know I can't do legally (and they do know) tells me they have success passing loads to drivers they know they can't do legally.

By the way Crete is a big company, so to say they do not do something because they did not do it to you is pointless.

Now I'm not going to get a tape recorder and go hunt down a bunch of Crete drivers to say they have been asked, cajoled, prodded or whatever to run illegal because unless you are a newbie you will drive your truck illegally at some point for the company you work at. So get fingers out of the company's belt loop and hand back their dirty socks you where about to wash for them, and get some of your dignity back.

 

I'm not bashing, I'm just calling BS when I see it. I repeat I have NEVER EVER been asked to run illegally. NEVER. Your "friend" is just making an excuse why she can't run hard. If all you can handle is 400 miles a day then Crete is not the company for you. There are many days I have had to run 650 miles in order to make a delivery but I have always run them legally. Crete leaves it up to you to decide if you can make a run legally or not. If you say you can then they take your word for it. If later on you decide you can't do it legally can you blame them for being pissed? I can't. Sounds like your "friend" can't run a logbook if she has to rely on you to tell her when she is running illegally.

And don't even get me started on who is professional and who isn't. You have only been driving for 5 years. As far as I'm concerned that barely gets you out of rookie designation.

 

Wow, Just wow. You must be in great shape with all the exercise you get jumping to conclusions. First of all, on short runs especially, dispatch doesn't know already whether you can do a load legally or not. They can tell on really long runs but on the shorter runs they can't. They don't know how many hours you've run on the day the load is offered and there is no way you can tell them until you get the offer.

Sounds to me like you still like to be held by the hand and guided by dispatch in everything you do. Crete has always had the reputation of being a company that DOES NOT HOLD YOUR HAND
for anything! They expect you to be a professional not a child still hiding behind Mommy's skirts. I imagine you to be just as big a PITA as the OP's "friend" is. Your problem is you go around expecting companies to do things the way YOU want them to be done and then you break down into a hissy fit when they don't.

As far as "dignity" is concerned you seem to have it mixed up with some other word. You wouldn't know dignity if it slapped you in the face.

 

And you as a claimed professional driver do not send etas and ptas even if no macro to do so?

You should stay at Crete for 5 more years, because if you leave you might have to actually learn something other then being reactive and thinking the company looks at you as a professional anything. They know the operation of the truck each day even if you remain oblivious to it, because they told you you where on your own and it made you pop tall.

I don't cling to words and titles nor need to have others say them back to me to gain self worth. When I drive OTR I always have hours. never had a ticket for logs ever, nor a moving violation for 6 years and counting.

By the way I would not mind holding the hand of my current dispatcher. She';s pretty hot. So back on the porch pup.

next!

 

Pray tell, how does an eta or pta tell a dispatcher how many hours you have run?