Crete Carrier - A Year In Review - Fall 2013 Going Forward

yeppers

 

Hey I delivered a load and then picked up a load this morning at Owens Corning in Amarillo, TX. I dropped a loaded trailer and picked up another loaded trailer. How do you guys log such a situation? I mean do you guys log just one drop and hook for 30 minutes? That's what I did.

 

yep, 15 for the drop and 15 for the hook. Did you eat the 72 ouncer?

 

Not even a 7.2 ouncer. I ate an order of Chicken McNuggets with the new habanero sauce instead and a large fries. It was good; the new sauce; not the McNuggets.

 

Delivered my 407 mile load and waiting to get loaded on my 382 mile load that live unloads on Monday. Lucky me as Ryan said that was the only load available. After Barb said I could drop Sunday, yes Barb's a wee bit if a liar

 

Sitting in Denmark, TN for the night. Had less than 7 hours on my 70 to run today. I get 10 back tomorrow and will need 9:45 of them to make delivery....then it's home time!!

EDIT: I also just luv how the computer tries to trick you into the earliest possible delivery. Load says 0001 to 0600 yet it's an all day drop. So I ask dispatch if the time is real or fake Crete time. Reply: We need you to drop ASAP...safe and legal. Then he puts in 0001 to 1400..haha

 

One more reason I'll avoid Crete. I am gonna get back on the road one day. But I prefer to have accurate information. .

 

11.9 gig...how do you keep it that low? I just checked my data, it was at 23.6gig and it doesn't reset until another 9 days. And this was with 8 days off at home using my personal home network.

As for the gel'g...I had a Maxxfarce Prostar that gave me the 'water in fuel' message a lot...draining the glass filter made it quit for a day or two, but I think they ended up changing a sensor somewhere and it quit.

 

when I was there I found that many times, especially on Lowe's store delivery loads, they would bump the appointment times on the load info up a little, that way if a driver was running a little late for the delivery...they weren't really late for the real appointment.

 

The first time I ran into this was my first delivery to Kelloggs in Lewisville. 0300 delivery time on the load info. My dumb a55 self got there on time. Dropped inbound load and sat a full 12 hours waiting for my next load out of there. I was not a happy camper. Most of the OPs crew that I have asked about the times were straightforward with me. Most of them don't much care for it either. It seems like the drivers that...shall we say...are not the most productive or don't manage their hours well make the rest of us bear the burden...again