Crete Carrier - A Year In Review - Fall 2013 Going Forward

Heading to the indy terminal tomarrow
Am then to corbin, ky
This week I should have around 3, 000 miles

 

Did y'all scared XLS away ?

 

Perhaps he doesn't want to post the issue (that he hinted at on his last post) because he doesn't want to deal with the barrage of "I told you so's" that would follow.

 

I hope he lands on his feet! I know the angst of being in a situation like he's in. At some point I just had to put my head down and charge forward. If you look at it as an initiation of sorts you have to get past that freshman year as unscathed as possible.

BTW what the heck does chive on mean anyways

 

chive...it's that onion looking green stuff that they mix with sour cream before they add it to a potato...

and I know what you mean about pushing thru the tough times. My family and I have been knocked down to rock bottom so many times we thought we were going to have to put in for a permanent change of address. But thru it all my wife managed to keep the lights on and the kids fed no matter how crappy a paycheck she got from me. That was what I was doing at Crete...hanging on hoping that the light at the end of the tunnel wasn't the 3:30 express to Rock Bottom Lane

 

Chive on, from the web site, and charitable organization, called the Chive. Promotes drinking and giving... KCCO is their favorite acronym, originally stood for Keep Calm Carry on, from the english during WWII... They changed it to Keep Calm Chive on... They promote giving forward, RAK, Random acts of Kindness, and throw parties where they donate the proceeds to charities.

Want to check them out, thechive.com

left california, and now based in Austin TX.

 

...and I was thinking all along it came from "Downtown Abbey".

Yeah, I'm dead serious. That's where I thought it came from. Another stellar moment of intellectualism!

 

I acknowledged publicly (on here) several days ago that SSB appears to be correct. Rae asked me to give it a little time. A few on here have suggested giving it a little time. Some believe I made a big mistake and am wasting my time. Some believe that I am unsatisfiable. Truth is, I'm not sure at all as to what's going down. I know my old dispatcher is doing O/O's now so can't go there. Current average dispatch now stands at 488.0, not remotely close to the 680.0 I averaged here before. One of our posters the other day said his average is in the 700s. For a lot of reasons I need to give it a little time and I will try to. No guarantee that I will succeed. Time will tell.

 

I hope it straightens up for you, xls. Reviewing my own numbers, my average dispatch has been within 10 or 15 either way of 660 the entire 2 1/2 years I've been here.

You tried something different. It wasn't working for you, so you returned to something that was workable previously. Any idjit that plays the "told ya so" card is talking out their hind end. Pulling for ya, man!

 

At Consignee/Shipper this morning I would have been in and out in an hour dropping my loaded inbound trailer and grabbing my loaded outbound trailer. But when I tried to scale out I was 1500 over on my drives but only 77,500 gross. Slid my tandems all the way forward and was still 500 over on the drives. They sent me over to the plant to get the load reworked. I told the folks at the plant I was fine on gross just needed a couple pallets pulled closer to the rear since there was about a good 8 feet from the last 2 pallets to the back doors. 4 Hours Later they finally had the load ready. What did they do? They took off 1 pallet. Must have been the one that was in the nose. Why short your customer a pallet when moving a little weight back was the simple fix?