CRETE - A Year in Review

After school, you'll have to go with a trainer for at least 8 weeks. I'm not sure what the pay is there, but it beats unemployment. After you're released and go out on your own, I think the 1st year it's only something like 35 cpm...keep it clean and accident free, then it goes up in the 40's cpm, not sure what exactly the starting pay.

 

Yea I believe she said training pay would be 500 a week. But after that would u generally get enough miles to bring home at least 1k a week if I'm working hard?

 

Bring home $1000?????? Perhaps gross, but not net and not for a few years, at least on a regular basis. I've been here almost 10 yrs(20 yrs total driving) and don't bring home(net) that much. I may gross that much, but minus insurance premium co-pay, taxes, and the $125/wk I set aside for living on the road, I net $700-900 max. On the rare occasion I carry over miles and have an exceptionally large week, I may net $1000...

I gross over $60,000 most years, not sure how because I have been getting less than 125,000 miles a year, and I'm maxed out at .47/mile...that only adds up to $58,750, and since I don't request detention time anymore...I guess it's shag pay, extra stop pay, and any odd's and end's pay (once in a while they have you shuttle trailers, do a road test, get a clean d.o.t. inspection or random drug test) that make up the difference.

 

I will say this, and take it for what it's worth....words on a screen.

I make more at Crete then I did at Schneider, both in terms of cents per mile and in miles run. I have exponentially fewer issues with trailers needing repair and therefore less down time then I did at the pumpkin. I'll gross in the mid-50s this year at .43 per mile. I've had a LOT more $1k gross weeks here then anywhere else I've been.

 

Hopefully I get the pleasure to work with you gentlemen/ladies one day. Thank you so much for your input.

 

I went with Crete for the pay and the reputation that I had heard about Crete. After school I went 2 months with the same trainer. After the first month you can go home for a few days but you may not get the same trainer when coming back out. I really liked my trainer (although there were times ...haha) The first month is you driving as much as possible and the trainer sitting in the passenger seat. My trainer NEVER went to the bunk while I was driving. That's why I wanted to stay with him because the second month the truck goes super solo. That means the truck can go 20 hours however you guys want to split it up. We had a 5000+ mile week so my trainer was happy happy happy. $500 per week while training. Once you get your own trk it's .34/mile and after your first year (that includes the two months of training) you will go to .41/mile. I made almost 50K my first complete calendar year. So most of that was at .34/mile.

I truly believe Crete is a very good company for a student fresh out of school. Longest training period of the ones I checked on and trainers are required to have at least three years experience. Mine had 23 years in trucking and he's been a trainer at 3 different companies he's driven for. He's also a non-smoker which was very important to me since I have allergies when around smoke. If you got any questions hit me up.

 

What is the starting pay right out of school with Crete? Most companies start them off around .23CPM. and then they are not generous with dispatching your loads; you're lucky to get about 200-500 miles per week, during your probation period-- so how does that add up to $500.? hmmmmm.

 

Trainees at Crete get a $500 a week salary under the 8 week traing program. My experience was the same as stungjoe but my second trainer just wanted to get miles. I got very little training. After you are done with the training you get your own truck at .34 per mile. I wasable to gross over $1000 a week about a third of the time but my truck, which had recurring electrical problems, and a fair share of non productive loads made me leave OTR and accept the offer of taking my old job back.

 

I am impressed that Crete pays fairly. I got the same kind of training, but with about 50. per week during training and lucky to get 300. a week after. I finally got up to 1k/wk. after about 4 years of driving. After my non-training, I managed to drive 10 years without any accidents.

 

sitting in New Kingstown. The place is a glorified truck lot! Trucks everywhere.