Don't work for Crete Carrier and Shaffer trucking

What did you expect coming into this industry young-blood.... a silver spoon ? My advice is weather the storm, my first year with Crete I was in 4 different trucks.

 

I remember when I started with Crete back in 07. It took me 4 days to get my truck finally out of the shop and road worthy.

 

Don't ever post ANYTHING bad about a company on this website. Whatever anyones problem with the company is, its NEVER good enough.

If the owner of Crete cut your arm off...your fellow drivers will still blame you.

This isn't a place to vent about companies dontcha know.

 

Сrete Carrier? Alvin Wilkerson? Is he down as a rehire by the way (once he gets out)?

 

Does seem a little fishy doesn't it? I know trucks break down but this just isn't adding up. Now I don't have much good to say about Crete but the being on breakdown for the first to weeks and every week after that? It just doesn't add up. I think there's more to the story than what's being told but idk. Nor am I going to rip the OP for his post. It just seems as though things aren't adding up here.

 

I'm still at Crete (20 months), and I had a streak last summer when the bunk AC in my ProStar went out every 10 days, just like clockwork. This included four times AFTER the entire unit was replaced. So bad streaks can happen. But I'm still here, and things have smoothed out.

But in regards to a company not being what it once was....that's almost universal. The new Harvard Business School approach to trucking is in, taking care of drivers is out (Tonn Ostergaard, our fearless leader, is a HBS grad).

 

I have had the worst luck with breaking down with my current truck but I have never sat more than 4 days. And after 3 days (or sooner) I have been offered a swap. Plus the reason I have my current truck is because my old truck was going in for bunk air issues and it would be four days before they even got it into the shop. I went inside and asked for a swap. they confirmed the delay and I was in a new truck by nightfall.

 

Exactly. Any company using the newer equipment is going to have issues. Some units are nearly trouble-free, others not so much so. The key has become how quickly a company will make the moves needed to get a driver rolling again in a reasonable amount of time.

 

This is one of those hit and miss things when a driver comes aboard. When I started with Schneider there was another guy with me. We both got our trucks the same day. Mine was good and his was crap. He quit after a few months of dealing with truck issues. Mine just kept on rolling and I am still with Schneider. We both had different experiences. The roles could have so easily been reversed.