CRETE - A Year in Review

Dean Wormer to Blutowski in Animal House after giving them their grades and expelling them.

Now back to the thread ... I want to go to Crete personally (I'm waiting on safety to approve my application) because they are one of the smaller "big" companies. I've heard to many good things that outweight the bad things about Crete, and I'd rather go there myself and deal with whatever find as opposed to going with one of the companies that are universally known as horrible to everyone.

Even though I don't have a wealth of experience in this industry, I do know that if you are not happy with your present job as you seem to be, you need to move on and get another one. Or work on fixing the problems instead of just staying and complaining.

 

Dean Wormer speaking to Kent 'flounder' Dorfman. Animal House, 1978.

 

You might be right. He might have been speaking to Blutarsky. Flounder definately threw up on the desk. What a classic movie!

 

Ive spent time with Swift, Us Xpress, Knight and a short time with Interstate Dist. , I must say Crete (so far) is above those others in my view over all, even though I would go back to Knight if I didnt have my dog riding along with me. Crete pays more (Practical miles too), very driver friendly. Heck, if your truck breaks down they put you in a hotel PLUS pay you for down time! Maybe I'm still in the Honeymoon phase, but I see alot of positives over here at Crete. DRIVE SAFE

 

Yea could have been flounder. But frankly he was talking to all of them

 

We are only getting one side of this story, so I take it with a grain of salt.

I've talked to many of our drives here at Crete, and without fail, the ones who complain about low miles always have bad attitudes. Not derived from low miles, but a bad attitude is their everyday way of life. Will there be bad weeks? Duh? That's like asking if the sky is blue. Overall, the VAST MAJORITY of Crete drivers are happy with the miles they are getting. Including the old timers.

As for the blue truck vs. red truck issue. IT's not. Most of us now know that Shaffer trucks pulling Crete vans are in fact Crete drivers. While I'll agree the reasoning is a little strange, it is still their company. Crete drivers pulling Shaffer reefers is either it's a dedicated fleet or the shipper loaded it with Crete freight. Once in awhile it will be a Shaffer load. However, I agree with a previous post. As long as I don't have to sit and wait, it makes no difference the color of the trailer. If the reefer is running, use earplugs. I do this most every night anyways. Truckstop noise can be a real bother.

 

Evertruckerr,

Although I'm a flatbedder, I love reading your updates. It's very apparent what your pattern is. Accept loads, dont argue, drive legal, get there without frequent coffee and video game stops. Seems to work well for you.

Even though flatbed freight sucks right now, I'll be going to Arrow in a week or two after I move to North Cackalacky. I'm not very experienced, having left TMC after a month (home stuff, even though my trainer was a filthy caveman), and running for a local startup in SoCal who sent me out to the midwest and TX regularly (and then decided that after almost 11000 miles they didnt need to pay me for those loads - CA Dept of Labor hearing on the 19th), but Arrow took me on with no questions.

I'm going to apply your practice to running with them and even though I'm going to be running their Southwest Regional for 26% of load which is supposed to get me home every 7 days for two off, I'll stay out if I need to.

Thanks for the posts!

 

Thank you for your stories!!! I LOVE reading these! Crete is whereit's at! I'd love to get on a regional gig!

 

Well, I got my pre-hire today for Crete, it isn't the regional I wanted but that's cool. I can just hope my EOY 2008 statement is a nice as that one.