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

I know FL for sure, most have ample restroom facilities (some of the KY scales only have porta-poopers like some of Crete's terminals after hours)

 

I avoid the latter (the weigh stations with only port-a-johns).

 

When you're due to go home can you tell Crete you'll keep working as long as they don't send me East of Ohio?
I'm going crazy of Pennsylvania, I must be here every single week someway somehow... all roads lead to Pennsylvania.
And every time is when I'm at around 79000 pounds lol for real.

 

I finally had enough of the PA/OH regional crap and told my AM to route me to Marietta instead of home.

"Why?"
"I've had enough"
"What's the problem?"
"we have been through this time and time again. Not doing it anymore."

I get a call from Brent, the ops manager, and we talk.

Long story short, I spent a good part of my last tour west of I-35. I'm getting crap now, but it's all good. If things don't collapse this year for me, I'll be out of here by 3/31/15. That's my goal. Would have been this year, but sometimes life gets in the way. Not gonna let it happen this time.

 

For me it's been PA.. then to TN.. back to PA.. then to Nebraska.. then back to PA.. then to Arkansas.. then back to PA
I'm going nuts of PA man.....
The same hills going 40 MPH up and down up, up and down.
When I have memorized what speed my truck will go up specific hills then I really need to GTFO of here!

No matter if I'm in Denver, Nebraska, Minnesota or Arkansas they always find me loads there headed back to PA.
It's ridiculous

 

Wisconsin for sure as well, at the bigger "super coops" - they have signs saying it's allowed.

 

It's pretty sad, working for one of the best OTR companies and realizing it still sucks, lol. These guys treat me pretty well, when safety isn't screwing me over, but I've been planning an exit strat ever since they put this CPAP on me. What's the significance of getting out by April?

 

Nothing in particular...just that should be about the time frame for financial readiness.

Don't get me wrong...I've made more money here than any place I've worked. On the whole, it's got fewer hassles than any trucking job I've had. But the cameras in the trucks, especially irritating in that they will be tied into the OnGuard system, is the death knell for me here. I'm in a unit with 455k, so I'm due for a new truck pretty soon. I'm hoping to get out before that happens, but I don't think I'll make it.

...and if they ever changed their mind on my CPAP, I'd be gone immediately. I brought mine over when I hired on in 2/12. I'm not playing their CPAP game when their program is bogus to begin with.

 

Yeah, the cameras are going to be the death knell for me. I'm already coming up with an exit strategy. They spin it like they're going to be oh-so-great for us, but the first time we get litigated against when we were clearly at fault for an accident, we're going to see a barrage of new driver-unfriendly policies, which they'll be able to enforce at any time thanks to the cameras having so many potential triggers. Think, both hands on the wheel at all times, music if allowed at all while driving will have to be kept low, no talking on the CB, etc., etc. These things have happened at other companies that went to these stupid cameras, and you bet your sweet ### that with this company being essentially run by attorneys, they'll happen here too.

 

LOL...I live in PA, and I'll bet I'd hardly ever see the state if I were a 48 state driver. Of course I don't drive for Crete, am a regional driver where I live, and get home weekly, but I am in the state every week (because I live here, and the majority of our freight rolls through anyway) but you know how it goes. Wherever you live, you won't go there much.