CRST: Taking a refresher, then hitting the road

If you chain up you will be working in it hah

 

I will be there.

 

kool, where are u coming from??? im coming from memphis,tm

 

I am driving up from Daytona beach FL. They are getting alot of snow this weekend.

 

yea i see tha and it goin to be in the low 20's on sunday

 

On my 2nd week at crst. Out with a trainer. We are in atl. I drove down Mt. Eagle was cool for my first 6% downhill grade.

We are in a 2008 Pete 387.

If u come to iowa be sure to bring cash for two weeks of food. You might be waiting on a trainer for a week after your hire date. They do take u to local stores so u can shop.

If you live close by just drive there. They pay for your gas and park in the terminal parking. I did. I drove from FL.

Make sure u have all your dates and paperwork ready or you will be going home.

 

Missed this post sorry. It's a Ruger Super Redhawk .44. Big game hunting pistol. Used it for wild boar.

 

Actually at CRST, starting as a team driver gives you someone who might try to kill you, someone who might accidently kill you (bad driving), and you might be abandoned at a random location as far from home as possible because you arent allowed to move the truck solo...

 

Kazz87 or Unidos - my friend & I are *hopefully* starting at CRST on 1/25. We're been told we can team drive after training. We've both gotten "the call" from our respective recruiters about getting scheduled for orientation. I say hopefully because my friend just talked with his recruiter & was told we may be pushed to Feb 1. Being delayed gives me a bad feeling, like we were being fed a line. Did that happen to either of you?

 

dont go there. go anywhere else. Read all the horror stories on here about them. Most are true. The industry has a driver overage, explain to me why more drivers such as yourselves are needed? I'm not trying to discourage you from trucking, but you have to consider the facts.

You were not being fed a line. CRST has to hire lots and lots and lots of drivers because their drivers are constantly quitting, because they are such a bad place to work (AND because team driving with peopel you dont know is sucky and dangerous). They only hire people in IIRC 4 locations, orientation is once a week, classrooms hold around 30 people, and they probably did not have room for you.

And there is a driver overage, yet this company has to train new people to fill their trucks..

And there is a driver overage, but many companies will only hire students now (or last month, whatever).

There are thousands of experienced drivers out of work, why do they need you? Hell, why does the company i work for need ME?


There is a problem here. A big one.

That said, when i worked for CRST, i was teamed up with a cool girl i met in trucking school. We decided to team up and they let us. We both got on a truck right after school, and after a couple of weeks she wrecked a trailer into a fuel pump because we were both poorly trained by the CDL mill, and well, ...Ok, there is no excuse for wrecking into a fuel pump. We werent even getting fuel. I had to find a new codriver. When you are being teamed up with randoms, they are almost all idiots (because most people are idiots, period). I was abandoned in Portland, Oregon, and Carlisle, PA. In carlisle, I told them i was done and i left. I could not find a job for a year because all companies were only hiring students, or people with 6 months experience. My 5 months was not enough. I lost everything I owned because of this company.

I went to work for werner a year later, and on a bad week i make 4 times as much as i made on most weeks i worked for CRST. I worked for crst making about $100 a week. Thats not even enough to live.


And just so you know, and this does not require you to accept me as being truthful, but it is the truth: As an experiment, Go to a local truckstop and eat lunch. Give the waitress a tip so that you can come back without her spitting in your food. See what that cost? It costs about $90 a week to eat one meal a day out on the road. Maybe even buy a random driver lunch so he can tell you why you should not drive a truck (LOL). Anyway, you're going to make $350/week in training, GROSS. Then you take your taxes out. So now you have maybe $320 to deal with. When i was there, there was like $20 a week in deductions for school expenses, and i think i was paying $30 or so for taxes. Now you have $270. Eat. Now you have $170. I also got insurance in orientation, I dont remember what it was but i pay $25/week at Werner, so thats a good figure! So now $245. More like $100 if you eat more than once a day and drink pop. You most likely will NOT get a trainer with a fridge and oven, so this is most likely how you will eat during training. If youre lucky your trainer might pay for you to eat, DONT COUNT ON IT (at crst, mine did when he won on the slots LOL or just if he was in a good mood). So atleast during training, please dont count on this to pay any bills at all. And that goes for most companies. After training, since you are teaming up with someone who has just gotten out of training, guess what? You're going to need STUFF, and want even more STUFF. Stuff is expensive. You'll see what i mean when you get out there. You have to buy weird stuff you'd never expect. I run dry van one time i had to pull a reefer and had to buy a thermometer. (crst doesnt pull reefer)