CRETE - A Year in Review

Thinks if you jump in the dispatchers face thru qualcomm enough,they eventually get your number and maybe, just maybe, try to "fix your wagon" once in a while... Personally Ive been on the road for 30 days this tour and havent sat a single day....guess Ive been lucky , though a reset sure would make juggling my hours a little easier. I suppose Ill get my reset when I get home next week.......Ahhhh , home sweet home!. Good to see you back SS, thought maybe you'd retired!...And howdy ho to this threads MC...Mr E.T!...Hope you had good luck with that house buying thing man.....Be well Y'all!

 

Look, I have not worked for Crete for 6 yrs, but I did work for them for 10 yrs, and I do not believe for a second that they are "trying" to get rid of drivers at the top of the payscale.
Drivers at the top of the scale are the drivers they can depend on to del loads on time and safely.As opposed to newbies who they hope can do the job.
If you owned the company,who would you bet on helping your company succeeding,new, unproven talent or the guys who got you here?

IF YOU ARE UNHAPPY DRIVING FOR CRETE....WHY THE HELL DO YOU STILL DRIVE FOR THEM????

 

It was a totally different world back then. It was a totally different world just 3 years ago. If its been 6 years since you have been with them what makes you think you know what the heck you are talking about? Hmmm?

 

Doesn't really have anything to do with how long ago or even which company we are talking about. Intentionally running off the most experienced of your employees makes no sense whatsoever. Love them or hate them, Crete did not get where they are by making asinine decisions like that.


Oh, btw, I always know what the heck I'm talkin about.

 

I actually find Longbow's posts highly entertaining. Equally as entertaining as Karnajj's .

I look forward to his posts more than I do the original poster.

 

That is why many people have asked Evertrucker to start his own blog. I follow this thread because most of it's in plain English and Crete drivers are polite for the most part even when there pissed, and ET's updates. My companies thread is quite colorful once you decipher THE POSSTS.

newbie, sorry if I came off as gruff in a previous post. But some of the things you say without knowledge and with aggression tell us what kind of a driver you are soon to be. I'm sure you know that life as you know it is about to change drastically. Some love it, like me personally, some hate it, they quit, but the most amusing are the ones that are stuck in misery doing "life without parole" Be safe

 

I am hearing both pros and cons on the per diem compensation. Some companies are aggressively pusing it whike others don't offer it at all. I understand the pre tax benefit and how the unemployment and workmen comp wages are less because of it. What records need to be kept for tax time either way?

 

Six years ago Mr. Acklie still had some influence in the operations of the company. Today he has none. Big difference.

 

That dim per mile can work with ya and against ya..you get paid per diem your yearly income is less on paper and harder to get a loan.. I like it better with out it.

 

Not only that, but in todays world, if you're laid off or fired, it has an effect on any unemployment compensation...plus like an earlier post said, would effect workers comp payment amount if you ever get hurt. Plus it lowers your income and that leads to a reduction in any Social Security payments when you retire (if there will be such a thing in a few years I mean) Per diem is robbing Peter to pay Paul. You are taking your money now, and betting on better times in the future to make up for it. Personally, I will keep my money coming in the same old way, without.

As for taxes, what I had been told is this... to calculate the IRS' transportation worker's meal allowence(perdiem) with a company that pays perdiem, you calculate: your days out X $51, subtract the 20% and then subtract the amount your company paid you on their perdiem plan from the remaining 80%. Basicly your deducting the difference between the actual deduction amount (based on your days out), and the amount the company has already paid, because no company's perdiem plan calculates it exactly.

Thankfully Crete doesn't even offer, or have tried to force it on us like some other company's have.