Is Crete a decent company to work OTR for?

Crete

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@tucker your needed he drives for Crete op

 

Crete is not a BAD company. But they have a long history. They have been around from way back. I learned about them in the late 80's

If I remember right here are several companies.

Crete.
Sunflower.
Schaffer.
And one other I cannot recall right now.

ALL of these are under the same owner. There was a Federal Action that caused these three or four companies to be broken up and assigned new brand names to stay in business. I think this was back in the regulated days prior to deregulation.

I simply do not know enough about them to proceed further. I found them to be reasonably competant running with them on the roads in my time. But I don't again know currently how they are doing.

 

I have been with Crete 9 months now.Its my first OTR,and looks like my only.Unless something stupid happens.As long as you are making money with "Their" equipment,they pretty much leave you alone.I haven't even talked to my Terminal Manager yet.

 

Today at a customer I saw a Crete driver in a blue Shaffer truck tell the guard his truck number was 680yx when it was 860yx.
Maybe he was dylxesic.
I just made up the "yx" numbers because I didn't want to give away his truck number. The last 2 numbers were really 35. But don't tell anyone

 

You could do a whole lot worse than Crete. I'm sure they've got some bad reviews from more entitled drivers, maybe even some from seasoned veterans who maybe didn't get a fair shake, but Crete is a solid company to drive for from what I understand from here and other places .

unloader

 

There was once a company called HTL, I think that was the name at least (and I don't mean the HTL as in Honey Transport or Hickory Transport)...they were the origional O/O division. I was told that it was run by Duane's daughter(s)...but it disappeared and each division now has O/O's. You may still see an old HTL logo on a truck now and then, but it's been years since I have seen one.