The Decline Of Crete Carrier

I remember Crete wouldn't hire me because I had too many employers the past 10 years. They didn't take into consideration that those 10 years included high school and college, which is a completely normal time to hop from gig to gig. They also didn't take into consideration that I had a freakin' bachelor's degree, which requires the kind of stick-to-it-iveness that they're looking for (and that my "job-hopping" made it appear that I did not have).

 

Just consider it their loss and move on. Might have been the best thing for you.

 

LOL
no wonder the company is sht. They make just plain poor decisions. Easy as that.

I can just hear it "he has a bachelors! Don't hire his ###! You crazy? He might take MY job!! Just make some bs excuse up and get ride of him...." LOLOL

I can only imagine the look on your face when you were turned down for a TRUCKER job with a bachelors LOL
Sorry but this is just to funny.

 

Perhaps, the equal of both would be substantial. Crete not paying a driver for detention pay. A 2+ month wait, with no results. One has to ask themselves this question, if they do that to one driver, the question is: who else will they try to get by with doing that to another driver? The debacle of that driver not getting home time, becoming the cultural norm. The actuality of a business man running a company, instead of lawyers running that company, and using every legal loop hole to get out of paying a driver what they rightfully deserve. That could be constituted as extortion, which is against the law.

 

This is an interesting synapses, but more interesting is the lack thereof, other drivers are not seeing what Tonn has said in his quotation. We are going to a society that thinks more importantly to the American dollar as to oppose the morals of a driver's family values. Hence, those people in Lincoln will not ever see time in a truck, nor will they ever. The trucking industry has been so deregulated over the years. No wonder the older drivers are quitting/retiring, or going somewhere else. The voice of a driver wanting to spend quality time with his/her family, in the communications between operations and the driver has become mute. This is what I like to refer to as, "Negative Impulses in an Corporate America Environment". The solution: Karma, it has sharp teeth, and it will bite them in the end.

 

maybe its a good thing I didn't go with Crete! I always thought they were a great company, until I talked with a lot of the drivers and read things here!

 

I hate say it but that is the way trucking is going. It is not the CEO vision, but it is trucking in general to have 500 mile regional loads. I used to drive otr, and I am finishing up a degree in transportation and logistics, and the truck is very efficient below 700 miles. More than 700 miles and the train is cheaper. Rail Roads understand this now and are really competing for business greater than 500-700 length. The rails are trying to move the freight as promised at the terminals. This is a big shift that is occurring as we speak.

 

Give it time and they will be right back to trucks !!!

Do they have refer train cars ???
Trains may be cheaper, but the freight will be destroyed in the process, that is what killed it before, I still don't see to many "Air Ride" train cars, let alone most distributors don't have train access, so where is the savings if your paying some LTL company to run freight from rail yards to the distribution center ???

 

Lay some of that book-learnin' on me! I have similar curiosities to the last poster: How much cheaper is rail for long hauls if you have to involve LTL/Intermodal carriers at the back end? How does rail compare to tucks in terms of the freight making it there in one piece (or at the right temp)? I feel like I hear talk about rail eating into long-haul rates but I never get a good comparison. Please share some of your education with us rldavis!

 

How...they pay the railroad pennies on the dollar and don't have to use much fuel to get loads del...

If it wasn't cheaper for the carriers to put trailers on the rail...they certainly wouldn't do it..period..