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drivers dont list their experience on the new format but op did mention the career
i read on here that the def system wont work if you idle.
after the company took the skirts off my assigned mack and took the whole thing apart and cleaned the filter i quit idling and had no more problems
i only idled at stop lights and if i wanted to keep it running i used the fast idle with the cruise control but only when waiting for the line of trucks to move other wise i turned it off.
i dont sleep in the truck so thats not good for all.
i read on the poly thread about tons of pro star trouble
now im on a different route running a million mile mack with the eaton auto shift and no def system and got lot of experience with these so try and keep it clean and detailed and out of the shop

 

Funny thing. In my experience trying to "work" with people like you describe only leads to them ####ting on you even more.... you know like being assigned 6 crappy trucks. Ive been told time and time again that you don't want to make waves, but the problem is that these people in the offices wont do a ###### thing for you unless you make life miserable for them first. Its a crazy culture that trucking has, but its the truth. If you aren't making life hell for them than you aren't a big enough problem for them to fix and you will be ignored. I don't like it any more than you do but that's the truth.

 

yeah that is the way to do it and the old saying pick your battles surely applies in these instances. some things you just have to deal with and figure it out without bothering the cube farm. have the balls to make a decision and stand by it and not depend on others to make them for you whenever possible.

complain too much and about every little thing under the sun and/or the wrong way you're a problem.

complain at the right times and for the right things.....and most importantly in the right way......and things get done

don't complain at all and you get walked on like a doormat.

each company it changes and you have to be pretty astute at figuring which one to do in which case pretty quick.

but none of the above applies if you don't produce and establish yourself as a performer and someone who can be counted on to handle business.

and then sometimes the corporate culture and/or morons you have to deal with just make it unworkable no matter how reasonable you are or how above and beyond you go and you vote with your feet and find something better.

 

This is exactly the scenario I just got done dealing with. 90% success rate trainer (over 5 years) and for 3 months my miles were cut, Nothing I did could get them to change and get me rolling decently went from 3k miles / wk down to less than 2k miles/wk. Sorry but Im not staying out OTR and putting my life in the hands of a rookie and never being home, for the same as I could make in a daycab. Im just not going to do it so /finger, Im outta there.

 

i should not be posting at this time but i do detect an extra helping of hostility here for 11 year experienced driver cold heart what up with that

 

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....i thought you were a rookie driver because you signed up with Crete. And didn't know you were a female..... Opps well anyway better luck on your next gig

 

I been sayin it for years, CRETE SUCKS, but the pay is good.
Hang in the bucaneer, you'll get a good truck, they'll still annoy the hell out of you. But, they are ANNOYING, But, imagine receiving my messages.
Over on the dispatch forum site, they have a WHOLE SECTION devoted to ME.

 

Crete health insurance sucks