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

endless hours of paperwork

100X times more paperwork than when you buy a house
That's mainly all it is

 

Sorry for being late to the party but I recovered a truck in similar conditions in Mississippi. All of the former drivers belongings and mess were still in the truck. I took it up to Lenoir City and got a different truck up there. Moved on and didn't give it a thought. A couple months later I get a registered letter from Crete,"pick up your stuff in Lenoir City or we will donate it or dispose of it". After more calls than I care to count it was determined to be the stuff from the truck I recovered. Someone just put my name on it and put it in storage. I wonder how many calls that former driver made trying to find his stuff before he gave up. From the qualcom messages it looked like he got sick and had to abandon the truck.

 

In the St Louis area do we drop t calls at the common drop lot behind the Gateway Pilot or do we have our own yard? T call says Gateway Pilot but I'm guessing they mean the secure drop lot and not the actual Pilot.

 

The drop yard is directly across the street from the Pilot. Directly across from the truck entrance as a matter of fact. Just check in at the guard shack and they'll tell you where to go (t/r at the shack 1st row on the left as I remember it). And watch the potholes there... they're NASTY.

 

Yes. Thats what Crete uses. I have been gone 2 years. So , unless things changed......

 

Reread the post or any of my previous posts with numbers I don't fit that criteria you speak of

You can twist the post any way you want to fit your opinion but when it comes down to it DRIVERS make there own problems.

Just because the person on the other end is incompetent doesn't mean you have to be also, problem solve (some problems you have no control of)
I have a few in dispatch I will not communicate with..they are morons.. (I pick up the phone and SPEAK with someone with 1/2 a brain that can actually comprehend)
Come on...if you have been with Crete any amount of time you know how things are..they do not communicate with each other..

I do what I say and say what I do.

My excuses I have heard list:
I wanna be part of the team
I'm just a number
I don't want to go here/there
I can't drive at night
I just dropped this morning and started my clock..and now I gotta pick up at night
I'm not a local/regional driver..gimme the long loads

I could go on and on from all the excuses I hear from drivers that have problems...

I do my job and make myself flexible with the HOS I have to work with
No company is perfect..Nobody is perfect

When I was a manager/supervisor I knew how to take care of my problem children...you wouldn't like working for me.
I got tired of whiny people that wanna collect a paycheck but aren't worth their weight in salt..

Take a good hard look at yourself...would you hire you..BE HONEST

I have a very strong work ethic

This job isn't rocket science...Steering wheel holder, I love that comment....clearly from people who think they have a highly technical job out here...LOL

I may seem like the company cheerleader but when it comes down to it...if you are looking for excuses you will always find them...

 

I am living proof that it isn't always the driver. Just because you haven't hit the crap we had to deal with ALL the time doesn't mean the driver is the issue. I switched to a competently run company and once I got use to their unique system, I have 0 issues with the operations or management aside from the shop. WE work together, and they work with you to keep you as productive as you want to be given your available hours. Where at Crete, they work to clear their load board as fast as possible without any concern about how bad it screws the driver...again. I pushed as hard as I could to be productive over there, and my best day there doesn't come close to my worst day here. The reason, disorganized incompetent self centered hypocrites run the show over there. All they care about is that clock hitting 5 and hit the door no matter if the driver is left hanging or how many problems that they started get dumped on the next shift. (Without giving them 5 minutes of explanation about what was going on).

A lot of the issues that drivers are posting here could be resolved with one improvement, organization. And don't use the size of the company as an excuse for that lack of organization...it didn't just suddenly expand over night...they know ahead of time the number of trucks that are getting empty today. That number could have been seen as early as yesterday, preplanning a driver on a load should happen BEFORE that driver is empty not after...the info is there (pta, available hours, load list etc.). The same info they use now(or should use) when they finally do offer a load could be used to actually preplan ahead of time (especially when freight is abundant). It's the same process regardless of the 'when', planning ahead just forewarns a driver so that he or she can adjust their timing if possible thus making more efficient use of man (or woman) and machine.

 

Just curious. how do you figure? its a new southeast regional fleet. It gives you the option of hometime every six, twelve, or 21 days.
Thanks

 

when I worked there it was RDO 6, 12, or 21...and RDO stands for ''required days out"...no guarantee as to when you really get home. I talked to a driver out of Marietta on the RDO 6 fleet that hadn't seen home in 6 weeks, but making the reduced per mile rate...begging to get a load home or threatening to quit.

 

I just called crete a few minutes ago to ask lol. theres no way im getting screwed before I even show up for orientation. the lady basically said where I live is good for freight. ( just off I-40 near Greensboro and Winston salem NC) and for this new southeast fleet its set up for being home every 5-7 days based off of the freight. Nothing said about RDO or anything like that. Starting me at .41 cpm Sounds pretty basic.