Crete Carrier - A Year In Review - Fall 2013 Going Forward

Crete is actually telling you guys where to park now? Wow...that's kind of pushing it a little. I've always tried to get as close as possible to my customers, but I rarely park at their facilities. I like the amenities of a truck stop, even if they're not the best. In my opinion, a mediocre restroom is better than no restroom at all.

 

when you tell them you don't have the hours to get a load picked up and get to a safe place to park, they have always tried the 'sleep at the customer' ploy. I, like many of the others here, told them that unless they had food, phone and facilities that there was no chance of that happening. I also would remind them that I wasn't a dog, and don't #### in Walmart bags or porta-crappers...and until Tonny-boy was spotted using one at one of the terminals because he couldn't get in the building...then, as their "most valuable asset", I wouldn't either.

 

Happy New Year to all the Cretens over here...may we all have a prosperous new year!

 

Got an email from Crete to come back. Offering something like .48 cpm, but think Im going to pass. Made a list of must haves that would get me to come back, and recruiter said all can be ket, but we know how recruiters are. Are miles there at all???

 

Anybody at Wilmer?

 

At the former Flying hook in Corning CA, now a Love's. Was trying to use points to buy a shower when the guy next in line stepped up and gave me a credit. I have about a gazillion credits at peelot but can't seem to end up there.

 

Wound up with 124k miles paid for 2014 (with a 2k mile trip that didn't post before the deadline for pay) with roughly 50 days of hometime. Not my best year mileage wise but close. As much as I ##### about doing a lot of short trips (and there were a LOT of them) there were enough longer trips in there that it's worked out ok. Plus it's enough to get the mileage raise so I'm good.

 

I left on 12/21. Ended up at about 60,500 for the year. Edited as I got my last full check statement.

 

At the Nestle plant in Stanwood. For some reason it's a bigger clusterf ck than usual. Good thing I've got all weekend to get to Colorado...

View attachment 76488 That's the "line" at the window. The waiting room is literally standing room only. Fun times. And my pictures are STILL sideways... screw it I'm not fighting my IPad today...