Crete/Shaffer‼️

If there is a reefer load that needs covered, and you're the only option...they'll put you on it regardless of you being Crete. It doesn't happen often, but it will happen. In my 10 yrs there I pulled 5 or 6 Shaffer loads. The myth that most reefer loads typically deliver in the wee hours is just that, a myth...some do, many don't. Years ago that might have been the case, but with the JIT world of trucking now, it's really no different than dry van appointments

 

I don't believe that is true. I remember signing a document stating that I would receive .01 cpm to pull a reefer. The girl told me not to sign it if I didn't want to pull them. That probably wouldn't stop dispatch from trying to get you to pull one but legally would help you if you did.

 

That's why many Crete drivers resist and complain about pulling the occasional Shaffer load, as a Crete I didn't make the extra penny...but if given a choice of sit or pull a reefer and keep moving...I would pull the reefer. They may have changed the "forced" part of pulling one, when I was there it wasn't an option without a fight.

 

I do... well sorta of. I have a storage unit. I make the best of it.
Today... a nice shower, a real laundromat and the beach. And I’m happy as a peach!

 

I heard Schaffer has a lot of drop n hooks for a reefer outfit.

 

Excuse me, they did squeeze in a 198 mile run on me. Drop on both ends. New policy states, under 200 miles they give you 65.00.

 

65.00 plus the 198, to clarify.

 

That's what is important, you're happy and enjoying your life.

Money isn't everything, I quit a 100k/year job cuz I hated sleeping/living in the truck 5 days a week. I gladly took a 30k pay cut to drive 5 miles back and forth to work, weekends off and home after my 9-10hour work day.

Everyone is different, gotta do what makes you happy, and works best for you. Life is to short to be a miserable SOB

 

100K and only sleeping in the truck 5 days a week... that would be a vacation to me.
I still think I’m on vacation here at Crete even tho I’m banging out 2900-3375 miles a week.
I’ll wait till a full blown recession before I stop. Then the Tacoma comes out and I rent a lil place on the beach and relax.
And don’t be fooled everyone, it’s coming!

 

75% of the population doesn’t have 1000.00 to their name. That’s a credit bubble and sad.
So when you see these shiny cars driving passed ya, it’s all paper. One false move and the repo man starts lerking in the shadows.