leased a truck with CRST

let me start this by saying that i should have known better, but i was young,dumb and full of my self. the truck payment was only $301.62 a week.

this little adventure of crst oweing me money has been going on since june 14,2007.(the day that i quit) i thought i did enough home work on these guys but i guess i didnt even come close. my orientation was for 3 days in their cedar rapids,ia terminal, which during their 3 days they preached that for everyday that we set we appx. loose like $250 a day between fuel and food and all put together, they also preached to us about turning down loads and sitting and waiting for the next load. after orientation i was sent to oklahoma city,ok terminal to pickup my truck,which the truck was in really nice shape for a 2005 freight shakkkkkker,new rubber all the way around it,nice body,no dents,bangs or nothing bad. so i called into dispatch after i inspected my truck and was told by ryan dollmeyer(dipatch) to dead head to from the okcity,ok terminal to monoon,in to pickup a new mty trailor at .45 cents a mile. i was only going to be around 100 miles or so from chicago. (all drivers know their is freight year round comeing in and out of that place.) so i got to monoon,in and was told by the company that makes the trailors that they havent had ANY crst trailors for more than 2 weeks because crst wouldnt send any "special" tires to them that they wanteded on the trailors. so i bob-tailed back to the pilot truck stop on I-65 and called weekend dispatch at this time. they told me that they would try to find me a load call back in about an hour. (sorry should have written their names down) So i called back and they told me that their was no freight in that area that i would have to wait until sunday (the next morning) then call in again and see if they had anything. i was already mad by this time so i went to bed to cool off. the next morning it was the same thing just wanting me to keep calling back in a hour to see if they had anything. that evening when i called in evening dispatch said ," no trailor no load for you." and i told them that i wasnt that far from chicago and i know their is freight comeing out of their!! and their reply was," well if you dont like it than quit." i said,"cool,see you in a little while!" so i packed up my stuff and headed back to cedar rapids,ia. luckily i had $100.00 in my pocket because when i told them i would see them in a little while they turned those fuel cards off.

i guess the moral of the story is you had better check those company's (all companys) out b-4 you go with any company. but that is my experience. lesson learned for me

 

yep learned a very important lesson. just say NO kids!!

i was so aggervated that i forgot the money. when i talked 2 ryan today that i am not going to be reimbursed for bobtailing from okcity,ok to indiana. so that is just a plain bad experience with them

 

yeah i understand that, but after orientation i was their for a total of 3 days with the truck. should have done more homework but that was a bought lesson i guess. i wish i would have found the forum b-4 i went. my fault i reacon

 

let me tell you fireball you must be one of those sucks who puts up with it all! they have to keep a few o/o happy so that they can sucker in as many other drivers as they can to cheat them out of money! their is to many other drivers complaing about them!!! not all can be lieing about it?