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

I really hope crete doesn't sell out to Werner I worked there about 2 years and it was a struggle crete is a really good company I'm anxious to get back out with crete it's going to be a good test for me

 

My feelings about the shop at Salt Lake City

 

The only decent shop was Lincoln

 

The Hunt shop in Omaha has always been a good one for me...that and Deland, FL arer the 2 best as far as I am concerned.

 

I've never been to either one of those terminals

 

Omaha is for hunt I've been there 3 times it's decent Crete's drop yards are pretty bad st.louis is my least favorite by far

 

I think I've been to all the terminals my favorite is Columbus
And I am going to try to stay away from Phoenix and Salt Lake City and Lincoln

 

I needed an A service and the Opti Idle doesn't always start the motor, so they had it in the shop for 6 hours and nobody was working on it or any trucks later in the afternoon, Because they are training new mechanics and were doing bookwork????
And I needed to go to sleep so I could wake up at 1:30 to deliver 30 miles away
And the shop tard didn't think I needed any sleep to drive 20 miles. Could he think that was all I was going to do today?

So I call Lincoln and tell them to tcall the load or call the shop and have them give me the truck... 15 minutes later they brought me the keys.
And my trailer sat there 9.5 hours needing a T1 and they didn't get to that..
But I made it back to my favorite casino with the$10 Trucker buffet

 

Deland was good until they started cutting back shifts, then a lot of the mechanics adopted the "who gives a flying fornication" attitude. For me, Council Bluffs was the best until it closed. Columbus wasn't bad as long as that pony tailed punk of a night shift foreman wasn't on duty. I actually had good luck with "Walter" in the KC shop...once you figured out he was just grumpy naturally, and not p/o'd at you, he was easy to get along with.

 

I've always had good luck with KC shop