Lower Miles, Aggressive Hiring -Is Crete Expanding to Implosion?

Dude... I think you need some help.

 

I always try and look on the bright side, the positive of things.

Maybe they're gearing up to take on some new large accounts?

 

I think they are gearing up just in case.
They may be banking on the economy picking up some time this next year and want to be ready to go.
Most company's are on the low end for driver numbers, thus when/ if the economy does pick back up they will not be able to keep up with demand.
So they will either be brokering out freight, or turning it down due to not enough drivers/ trucks.

Crete is still Debt free, like Knight and Heartland. These company's made it the past few years constantly making money, and they can afford to gamble when others cannot.
Just have to wait and see if the gamble pays off.

Now the down side to this gamble is that for now they have too many drivers, and thus not enough miles to go around. This will cause extra turnover and cause more hiring to be needed.
For them this may not be a bad thing on the profit side though. It is the higher paid drivers that are leaving. Not the new ones. So they are having to pay out less per mile.

I have thought about this allot because I think heartland is doing the same thing right now. We actually have more freight than we can handle at the moment. My terminal is about 80 drivers short, and NE region is more than that.

 

A driver wrote

wtf they scrapin the bottom of the barrell .i notice some real dirtbags in those ata trucks when i fuel

 

Most companies have already went to a large percentage of short haul running. . Be careful with the language...there's truckers on this forum.

 

All these "big" companies won't be happy until there is a starving driver on every street corner in America at the ready. Funny thing is, there will STILL be drivers defending and praising these companies for getting ahead. When you have a workforce that you don't even have to pay....the sky is the limit.

 

You can still make money, even though not as much as anyone would like. I do stay out 3 weeks at a time, sometimes 3 1/2, but as I want to maximize my pay, I do that. I'm averaging about 11,500 miles per month which isn't all bad in these times. My miles are affected more by whether they are drop/hooks or live unloads rather than the shorter runs. The shorter runs aren't bad if you can just drop them. Not trying to say all is rosy, but not always as bad as advertised either.

 

You are pornographic and just nasty. Do you think no one knows what you are talking about? Go write some nasty books and get out of trucking!

 

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