Hey guys,
Ive searched the forums and haven't seen too much current stuff, although what I have read sounds like what I am going through...
Im mainly looking for all kinds of opinions about CRST. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
I obtained my class A back in March.... I had been collecting unemployment since January as well as making decent cash money on the side so I was in no hurry to find full time reportable income. Enter June 2009.. Roehl wont hire me because its been past 60 days since I was a student, werner wont for the same reason, local jobs are really slow currently and they want someone with plenty of experience anyways, bigger companies like JB hunt aren't interested in training, I applied at places like Conway.... I was tearing my hair out, threw resumes on trucking internet websites.
So I felt pretty grateful when CRST was going to give me an opportunity and the recruiter made it all sound like a gravy train. It took about 90 minutes in orientation to realize something isnt adding up.
.22 cents per mile?? For 6 months??? Wow, if I average 2200 miles a week thats $484 gross..... That sounds kind of cheap to me, but I suppose I could deal with that for a few months, the problem is... Freight is WAY WAY down and I dont think even the top company drivers are getting that many miles per week and they havent been for a long while. So I wonder why CRST is dragging in 100 people per week to put through orientation and get out on the road?
And now Ive been out on the road for almost 3 weeks... Ive got some training horror story here, but Ill save that for another time.
Ive dropped 2 loads in 3 weeks at .22 cents per mile. I havent even collected any pay yet and quite frankly I dont want to because I fear Ill puke. I left $600 a week clear, a blossoming relationship, a 9 month old daughter, and an $850.00 a month house payment to go OTR. I came here to earn money to better take care of my family. Im kind of wondering what Im missing here.
I realize and you should too that I still am currently in my first 28 day training period. My current trainer is one of the companies best drivers, he gets the best loads. His dispatcher keeps his downtime to a minimal even when others are sitting for a couple days, etc...
I guess I want someone to confirm for me that Im getting screwed for 6 months, someone to tell me it will get better here, and/or someone to tell me to find another company to run with.
I feel in an awkward position... I feel like Im going to be gone for 6-7 weeks and only bring home about $600-$700 bucks. My wife is going to think Im crazy and spent alot out on the road, my house payment wont get made, my car payment wont get made, maybe Ill make the cellphone/internet bill and cover the utilities... Then in 5 days Ill get to go right back to it on the road. I feel like if I quit, my wife will hate me just as much and Ill feel like I failed. But I just don't see what Im missing, who the hell would go through this for that kind of money? Who the hell can afford to live on that kind of money?
I dont know really, Im just really confused about all this and really frustrated right now.
Looking for info about CRST
Discussion in 'Motor Carrier Questions - The Inside Scoop' started by Crazyeyes, Jul 18, 2009.
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I will tell you why. Because they are charging boo koo amounts of money for a refresher course. They are getting freight moved cheap and when the driver finally gets fed up they will bill them a big bunch of change for the refresher course the driver bailed on....
marking the high dollar course up even higher.
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Welcome to crst. As another newbie who just got done with my training, let me tell you a couple of stories. It will get worse! First, dont plan on going home anytime soon. You will find out there are rules they go by, pertaing to your training that are not wrote down anywhere or they wont tell you what they are. Point in fact, when your out training you have to have at least twelve thousand miles, your half of the miles the truck runs. Which they only count the rand mcnally miles on your trip sheet. dead head or practical miles do not count. Or you have to have so many days on the road or a combination of the two, god only knows what that is.
One of my roommates i stayed in touch with ran his but off, with his trainer. They ran well over that secret number, and when it was time to finsh training his trainer came right out and told him. " I am making way to much money to let you go. Either you stay on for another two weeks or i am going to fail your training, and you will have to do it agian with somebody else. So you might as well stay" needless to say when my freind got close to his home stay he bolted. Now he has two do at least another two weeks with another trainer. I just talked to him last night and his new trainer cannot figure why he needed more training like he was told.
Another friend had a good trainer till the end of his time. When he was dumped at a truck stop in kentucky and he lives in michigan. I probably shouldnt give that story out, it might come back to hurt somebody, lets just say it was not good.
I was out six and half weeks, because why trainer was lazy and UP SET the dispatcher. so i got punished. listening to him whine, about money, but he would turn down loads. ( Later i will tell you about my training stories!!!)
Warning---- When your training is done, they are going to drop you at the worst possible spot u can think of, and give you a bus ticket to get home!
Oh, by the way, you have to reimburse the company for the bus ticket! aint that a kick in the head.
So, good luck! So, just Cowboy Up! its not much better anywhere else. Just get your expereince of at least nine months to a year, then get the hell away from them. That is what i am planning on doing. "Its only for the expereince"
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