Beware of CRST

I was hired by CRST as a trainer. I signed a contract stating that I would get paid .45 cpm and get paid the same for all miles the student drove. The student was supposed to get paid 300 per week. I trained 3 students, 1 month of training per student, averaging 4500 to 5000 miles per week. I got paid twice in 3 months. They owe me thousands of dollars.

 

You're not going to receive any money unless you seek legal action.

 

Document this work, trained who so and so each by name. Dates, where you went, your logs proving you went (They are Legal Documents...) and your trip loadings from A to B the whole time complete with trip numbers and pay miles.

Take it all to a Lawyer and sit down with him a while. See if there is a need to make sure you get paid properly.

Be very careful. You might be told that talking about this here online where CRST's Lawyers can easily understand your frame of mind and possibly try to use your expressions of dissappointment with them against you in clever and evil ways.

 

Beware of crst ingeneral, i live in there corperate capital, and noone here will work for them as drivers, we know how crooked and evil they are,

 

Go to the labor board good luck

 

I've got a hundred dollars, and a bag of Cheeto's that says none of this is gonna happen.
I would have the ammunition, because I document everything any way...but most people don't. Hell there's people that don't even ever look at their check stubs...just go through life oblivious to everything (maybe they're happy that way).
When I was on eLog's, I used to purchase Vehicle Inspection books, and fill THOSE out...just to have some sort of "visual" proof of the days log without having to rely on the company to access the eLog system for a print out.
Trailer number. pick-up or trip number, city/state pick-up, city/state delivery, and of course where I did the pre-trip that day. All the info in the 'Remarks' section of the Inspection log.
Then in a notebook I'd enter Dates, Trips, Empty Miles, Loaded Miles...and when I got my check stubs, I'd cross reference "Actual vs. Paid"...document it...and if the difference between the two was too high (anything over 8%) I had ammunition to atleast question it.
And THEN, on another notebook I would document any and all truck related expenses (scales, out-of-pocket tolls, tool or parts like headlight, mud flap, oil, etc...) with date, location, etc...to reference along with a printed copy of the original recite as ammunition for when a company trys to tell you "we never received a recite" when the reimbursement is not on your check.

I covered my butt in EVERY POSSIBLE WAY, because I've been screwed every possible way in the beginning. It's not hard people---it's actually pretty darn easy.

 

There is no way in hell you trained 3 students for 3 consecutive months averaging 4500 miles per week and only got paid twice.

There's more to the story. Why don't you fill us in on the details?

Were you lease purchase and fueling like a company driver? Taking bull #### loads? Taking time off? Advances? Was the government having to garnish you for child support?

 

Btw, students at CRST don't get paid a set rate per week. They get paid a certain cpm for the miles they drive. No student gets paid a flat 300 per week.

Anyone who paid attention in orientation would know this.

 

Obviously the OP is not a 1 fine trainer as he signed with CRST, who in their right mind would sign up for them knowing they are a second chance bottom feeder type company. I don't understand drivers who been in this business for a long time why go to a crappy outfit when you you can go to other greener pastures.

 

Excellent way of accounting for all this crap. It is a shame we work in an industry where cheating the driver/worker is the norm.