I hate crst van ex..

In the 8 months I was there only got home on time once and we booked are home time 2 months in advance. If he is not under contract find him a new job

 

I hate CRST as well! I am a trucker's wife and I have nothing but contempt for that company! Do not accept a position with that company! They tell you what they want you to hear so that you will sign up. My husband started with them last fall. He never got paid because they starve you on the road so you have to take out "advances". Then to make matters worse, he got paired with some psycho co-driver who drank all the time and never slept! My husband had to do all the driving. Plust the man never filled out a single trip log when he did drive. He sold his home and ended up coming home to stay at our house when he was my husband was on home time. That man typically went through at least a case of beer per night! He spoke with his dispatcher several times about the "unsafe" working conditions. The dispatcher did not care! My husband faxed his trip logs in every week per safety requirements! His co-driver did not and was never contacted by safey! What a joke! Finally in February, he was done! He told them to take their job and shove it! Of course it was before his 8 months were up, so they are trying to charge him $4,000 for his training! My husband is fighting it and we will probably get an attorney! The unsafe working conditions alone are enough to fight it! He is with another company now and happy! Of course all companie's have some of the same issues, but at least he is getting paid! He is on his own and driving haz mat tankers! Please if you are thinking about joining CRST, DO NOT DO IT! There are lots of other companies out there. Do your research first and don't fall for their lies! I hope this helps someone out there so they don't make the same mistake my husband did!

 

My brother just started working for them crst malone. He was on his 4th load and got his truck stuck and they fired him on the spot.

 

What did he do to get his trk. stuck.
Had to be really stuck bad somewhere he was not to be.
Please play Paul Harvey and tell us the rest of the story..

 

Well, my bro said that the truck he was leasing, was cutting off on him while he was driving. He was on the back road in nebraska and pullover on the shoulder. Which turn out to be a soft shoulder so when he tried to drive off, that when he got stuck.

 

keep on truckin...keep noise to pavement and ask people how they know things. if it's "i have a friend...this guy at a truckstop.....on the cb..." it's a lot of garbage.

 

There is not a day that goes by where someone is bashing a company for this and that. What always amazes me is that the amount of complaints are from a small handful of drivers who just did not make it. CRST is just one of many who are bashed here.

I am going to do a long winded post, first for everyone and then geared to those who have never set foot into the industry and are about to.

Where to start!!! there is so many places to start. Okay here we go, we are in gear now, no pun intended. Stop already and get a life!!! stop with your BS!!! stop bashing a company and making it seem like the entire company is bad, based upon your experience(s), with CRST.

I have been here a long time and so has my partner. We are not stupid, we could go anywhere and drive. Together we have 45 years in the business, combined and 35 at this one carrier, combined. There is not a company out there that would not hire us, team or solo!!!

If you are out here and you can't make enough money to live, than you need to talk to someone. There is a problem and the only way to fix a problem is to speak up about what issues you have.

Someone said that a driver manager said the companies concern is the trucks and they took offense to that. Lets break the news right now...CRST like any trucking company does not make money from the customers freight, they make money hauling it, so hell yea, the companies concern is with the trucks.

Some of the statements people make here when bashing companies goes to the ignorance column. Some of you get five stars for the day.

First off, if your partner is not doing his or her logs but you are, then when they get stopped at a weigh station, it is on them. Worry about yourself. If you are doing your pretrip reports and your partner isn't, it's on them, not you. Team does mean that one takes the hit for the other stupidity.

For the wives on here, I say this, and please know I have a wife of my own at home, and this is not personal but may seem like it. Stop talking about stuff you don't know about. If your hubby is not making money or is not getting home time, stop bashing CRST and look inside your own home.

What I mean by that is this. If your husband is not getting miles and has a driver manager that doesn't get them the miles, there is a reason for it and that reason comes down to driver performance.

When a driver manager has a team that can't arrive on time to deliver or pick up, cries about everything under the sun, between two drivers, can't get more than 2600 miles a week down the road for reasons other than weather or mechanical breakdown that is not due to driver error, than how can that driver manager give a team 6000 miles a week in freight and expect that team to get the job done?

If a team has a record of only being able to accomplish very little, than they will get very little in return and when your income depends upon being able to turn miles and you can't turn them, than don't expect to make real dollars and cents.

Wives need to stop painting a picture of despair and bashing CRST. Think before you say things.

Now for the new people, trying to get into the industry. CRST is a good company. They have alot of pluses and of course minuses, but when you look at both, the pluses outweigh the minuses.

CRST trains people to do the job they are being hired for, which is driving a truck. In order to give you the tools you need to succeed, they need to put you through school. Every employer does this and has been doing it for years and ages.

A kid graduates college and gets a degree, they obtain a job with their first employer, knowing absolutely nothing more than theories. The employer takes them in, provides training so that kid can have the tools to do the job. There is a cost to do that, the difference between those employers and CRST is that CRST expects to be paid back if someone fails on their own. That is smart business and I know you may not want to hear that. Not everyone is going to make it, this is why you don't make friends in school, you may never see them again.

You need to realize that CRST is making a commitment to you and by signing the contracts, your making a commitment to CRST and if you don't live up to that commitment, than you should pay it back. The fact that CRST expects to be paid back, should be a sign for you, that this is a serious as a heart attack company, that plays no games. I have never known anyone at this company that is not all business. This is a job, not a country club. If you want the country club life, get a different job.

You are going to have to put up with alot in this job. From the day you get onto the truck after your training, you are going to be expected to perform and perform well. There is not a trucking company in existence that is not going to expect this.

This is real work for working men and working woman. Shippers and receivers are not always nice to you. You will need to understand route planning, in other words, how to get from point a to b within the miles you have available for the day.

You need to get it into your head that your here to do a job that requires alot. If you think your going to see the country and sight see, you won't. You will pass through cities like indianapolis, Cleveland, Chicago, Los Angeles and never see the city up close.

If you go to school and look at your existence from the start as a business and not a job, you will have a different perspective on things. When you look at things as a job, you are only committed to a certain extent. When you look at this as a job, you will already have it in the back of your mind that you can get up and go somewhere else.

When you look at it as a business, you will realize that you need to succeed. Once your assigned to a truck, it is a business, even if CRST is holding title to the truck. You need to run your truck as a business at all times. If you do it from day one as a company driver, you will carry that mindset over to the owner operator/lease operator opportunity, when you are eligible and really ready.

I have been in some cities where there are three truck stops on the road and I went to the one who had the cheaper fuel price, even if it meant I would be passing on a shower credit. Sometimes you need to make these decisions that are not popular.

In closing, here is what I am saying about treating it like a business. CRST is really lending you their money to get started. This is like buying into a franchise. They are saying that for everyday you roll down the roads of america, over the course of eight months, you are repaying that loan through your hard work and being a man or woman of your word and fulfilling the commitment you made.

Stop listening to the handful of jackholes that come here and bad mouth CRST. Look at the number of drivers at the company versus the small amount who bad mouth CRST.

At year one, you go to .34 cents a mile, so if you can survive year one, you will see better money and better things. If your a screwup, than you should be expected to be cut loose.

 

The problem is, that people go to CRST and end up with other noobs with a lot of bad habits that get amplified within the confines of a truck. And, when you bring it to the attention of management, they say you are the problem. You are lucky in that you have a partner with experience---not the same as teaming up with people with bad habits. I had 7 years experience and can tell some stories of riding with some of these folks. I agree that one should honor their contract.
I make good money where I am at now. I don't have to worry about some noob that doesn't want to shower for six days --or more. I don't have to worry about someone that thinks it is ok to try pulling into a GAS station. I don't have to worry about riding around Kansas City for ten hours trying to find an empty. I don't have to do city work as a team. I don't have to worry that I'm going to have people wanting to fight me because my co-driver thinks its ok to be on the fuel island for an hour while she gets ready. I did my contract, but was smart enough to move on to better things. That's why I have a nice truck, have a choice of loads, can decline loads, get to see my family, and not stuck in Chicago for five days doing city work because CRST says they don't have freight from Chicago to Atlanta. For five days? Come on, stop drinking the Kool Aid. There is a reason CRST sends me messages wanting me to come back every week and why I just delete the stupidity.
Temptinfates

 

I did the program with crst and the first co driver/trainer was the biggest scumbagg i've ever met.Urinating in the front seat while driving and only half goining into the bottle.Sitting at a truck stop for hours while he was masturbating in the front seat...no kidding he would fill a piss bottle and drink it while in the bunk...seemed like it turned him on when someone entered the truck...you don't believe me? huh? I have a picture! it happened so often I thought no one would believe.If you want to see it I'll post it somehow. His name is John Wall and not only is he a pervert but will screw you any way he can.

 

I did everything they wanted me to dn the road for 48 days straight,logs and paperwork in order,no accidents or violations.Then after 5 months held my pay because they said I had missing logs,produced the missing logs then it was i needed my hazmat b4 they paid money that was owed. Still never paid and they wanted me to do more runs after no money for two weeks.Not even enough to eat. This company is as dirty as ####.STAY AWAY FROM THESE CROOKS!!!