Crete advertises top 50% of their drivers average $96,0000 a year. Is that true, what u earning?

I'm with the fridge division (Shaffer). Came back 7 months ago, after 2 raises since 1/1/21, and I am on pace to get a 3rd raise in October. I will be in the low 90's if freight continues to be this busy...and I am not making the top cpm like drivers that have been here for years.

 

I've been with Crete for 3 months. I've had a few low mileage weeks thrown in because of different issues. ( dont take all of your home time in one pay period?). As it stands right now, it looks like I will be somewhere around 80k for my first year. That does NOT count in quarterly safety bonuses and profit sharing bonuses, so it will go higher with those.

 

One of my new drivers is from Crete - he said his best year was 88k - anyone who makes over 90k probably doesn’t have a life.

 

Well, mine has been re-estimated down to the mid-upper $80k's. The closer I get to the pay raise mileage threshold (Shaffer's is 109k), the more 2 day 500 mile runs I get. I have had 3 sub-2000 mile weeks out of the last 5, and I am on pace for another one this week. I have already decided that they talk a good game, but they can't live up to their adverts, so moving on is in my not to distant future. Maybe the top 5%, which might be the few that stick around long enough to hit the top cpm, but 50% is just wishful thinking

 

I'm with Shaffer now.

My last check was for 1513.00 after deducts.

Its nonstop driving right now, down to your last available hour on your 70 if you want. Which I have been doing.

It seems to be about 60/40 drop hook, and live load.

Live loads take about 3 hours usually.

EDIT: those are live unloads. The loads are usually faster.

 

The OM and I love Crete and Shaffer.

 

You're fortunate. When I first came back, they ran me good. Lots of drop/hook loads. Now, not so much, lots more live load/unload. 1st quarter, almost 35k miles and lots of long runs. 2nd quarter, I barely crossed 30k miles (last day of the quarter I got a long run that got me from 28,500 to 30,100, so I was that close to not making my mileage bonus) and about half the number of long runs compared to the 1st quarter. This quarter I won't make the mileage bonus unless my A/M gets me over 13k this month, and it appears that won't happen based on the short crap I keep getting stuck with again. And I saw only a few long runs. I have asked him repeatedly(politely at first) to pick up the pace because this constantly dropping average miles per day doesn't make it worth my time to stay out 6-8 weeks, and if it keeps up, I will go home more often. I have even gotten messages from the Op's manager when my 'pick up the pace' messages get a bit less friendly and more grumpy...but I still see less and less miles each month. They even had me hauling dry freight on a Crete trailer for my last home time (I am Shaffer) because they couldn't get me a reefer load to FL.

 

Thinking about working for these greedy ########...here is what they think of you Mr./Mrs. Truck driver