CRETE - A Year in Review

And that will be the day I find something else to do.

 

i need to vent so bad and i want someones job...still deciding if its worth mine

 

What did dispatch do this time? Lol

 

Should have made that clear. Longbow is right, Crete doesn't own the dropyards in Fontana or Ontario. Crete never reimburses for parking, not even for truckstops while you're on the road. I find it a little strange that they wouldn't as most of the time if you have to pay for parking at a truckstop it's the only game in town with safe/legal parking. I just claim it on my taxes and Uncle Sam pays for part of it. Worth the convenience for me even if I couldn't claim it.

RE: electronic logs- I'm one of the test trucks for it. Have to maintain paper logs as they are the official ones. It's not that bad once you make the adjustment, as Crete is about as strict as they come with logs. The days of the 8 minute quarter hour break are coming to a close and I do miss that. I've had as much as 1.75 hours of drive time left on my 70 with paper while the qcomm is ######## at me that I'm in violation. That's the worst it's been though and most weeks it's pretty close. Especially if you burn your 70 every week and reset. I imagine if you were to go a few weeks without a reset it could get pretty far from matching what you could do legally with paper.

 

i think dispatch was hiding...biggest part is breakdown...lets jus say i spent 12 hours to get TA to get my tandums to slide so i can deliver the load. and they are slid all the way back to get under 34k (yes a nestles load)...now when i unload i still cant slide them and i will get 0 sleep all this BS for a 170 mile load!

 

Greetings.

After one of the best 5 week stretches in quite a while, I have decided to hit home for a few days off...in a way, I was a little reluctant because it seemed even with a few low mile weekends, Op's was still managing to get me in the 2700-3000 mile range by the end of the week...I hope I don't get out of sync again. In those 37 days since I'd left the house, I had just under 16000 miles. Not quite ET-like production, but still above what I'd gotten most of last year. The only irritating thing that happened was on the week I was trying to get home, I had dropped and hooked in Villa Rica, GA...and was offered a Rome, GA to Louisville, KY for the next day (Saturday) but after sitting at the can plant for 3 hours, my 14 was getting to be an issue, which would make it impossible for me to make it to Louisville before the customer went home at 11 am the next day. So they pulled me, and several other Cretes that were there behind me that had the same problem, off the loads...my next offer, I had a choice of loads... the paper mill up by Rome to Wichita, KS... or a t'called load in Marietta(that had been sitting there since early morning) to Orlando, FL...drop at General Mills.(which I chose) Now this kinda' irked me a bit, because if they would have offered me that from Villa Rica, I could have picked it up and dropped a day early on Friday evening, had a killer week, and been home on Friday thus allowing me to return the following week a day early...At least that's what I thought, until I got there Saturday to find that General Mills didn't have any empty's, and there were 2 Crete's ahead of me already waiting on empty's. It ended up that GM was just going to live unload our same trailers and call us back in to get them (if you've ever been there, it's not the biggest yard, to live unload you have to drop your trailer and pull outside the gate). 3 hours later I was enroute to the house...now the real work begins...HONEY DO, W/O a honey do logbook.

 

UPDATE:
load delivered but they cant send me on another load with a broken trailer and the only places that can fix it is to far for them to deadhead me to..lets all sit back and think about this..

 

Hey SS,

Random question: Do you by chance remember how much time was on the Rome to Wichita load?

 

It picked up anytime on Friday, it delivered 1st thing Monday. It was somewhere around 950-975 miles.