CRETE - A Year in Review

how much is detention pay? after how long?

 

it's either 10.50 or 11.50 I can't remember. It doesn't start till one hour after appt. time unless the cons/shipper has an agreement with Crete for more time. I have seen qcom messages stating up to four hours load time allowed before detention begins. Of course some places don't pay any detention, re: Anheuser Busch..aka Always Behind.

 

I've never done anything but a drop and hook at Anheuser-Busch, so detention isn't an issue there.
I do like ezpass does and just fill it out, sometimes I think of it as therapy, I probably actually receive something for around half of them, maybe a little more. I've never went through and double checked. I might have to do that and see if my recollection is close. I just get surprises on my checks every so often when I do receive them.

 

Joe, pretty sure it never starts til TWO hours past appt tme. That seems to be the industry norm. Like you said, some LAs say 4 hrs free and some say cannot collect detention at all. And 90% of the time the customer refuses to sign Crete's detention form atleast for me. Declined or refused to sign then goes in shipper's sig space.

 

Same here but on more than one occasion I have been to Ft. Collins, CO on a Monday. Just the shear volume of trucks had me there for over four hours because of their system. Check in/weigh; drop mt come back re-weigh truck only; find loaded trlr and weigh again. There were huge lines and people with short tempers see post #8742. Also, once I waited on production till my 14 was up and bob'ed over to the Motel6 for the night. Houston seems to be much better but even there I had a load variance once when I weighed out at 78,600lb.s. The girl said my load was like 12K lb.s short but no amount of talking persuaded her. I went over to the docks and the guy just started laughing. He stepped inside the trlr then punched some buttons on his display and said "have a nice day"

 

To get detention pay you have to send in a macro and fill out a form. Then the form goes to the dept that handles dentention. They contact the shipper or consignee. If the shipper or consignee agrees to pay Crete detention pay then crete pays you the $10-$12 an hour. Of course they never tell you if they got paid or how much. So not only is it their word it takes weeks after you were delayed to get any money. So like most things with Crete detention pay is just more BS.

 

Hoooooooo boy. I just got dispatched on a whopper.

1. They really need to make the "# of additional stops" part of the preplan much more noticeable. Am I the only one who thinks it's easy to miss? And/or they need to send a freeform with the stop info right away after sending the preplan.

2. Pickup in Mariemont, OH tomorrow (10/20) at 17:18. 1st drop Monday (10/21) at 10:00. In Hauppauge, NY. That's on Long Island. 687 miles. Six-hundred and eighty-flipping-seven miles and they expect me to do it in one shot? Maybe if I had a Poly truck. (ha-ha) Second drop is 24.5 hours out...in Syracuse, NY. Yes, the first drop is farther out.

Just sent them a freeform explaining the impossibility of this. We'll see what they come back with. (Oh, and I'm SO glad I can use a real keyboard now.)

To balance out the bellyachin' - on the upside, 986 loaded miles, stop pay for one stop and NYC/LI congestion pay...so that's $130 on top of the miles. Not bad.

 

Where in Mariemont? Im frm there originally, well the area.

 

I thought they only paid the NYC pay if you delivered or picked up in NYC. In the past, I think Long Island didn't qualify.

 

Drove to the Am Best right across from the Crete yard....the place is covered with what appear to be new trucks.

How do they afford to have so many trucks not running and generating money?

Whats up with these cats ?