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

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  1. tucker

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    He could easily run out west and then get back home on time.
    Maybe Crete wants to run the snowy freight out west this winter
     
    tucker, Sep 17, 2014
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    SOP @ CCC. They use to do that to me when I was there, until I fooled them and took one postponing my home time a few weeks...then is was 3 years before I ever saw the west coast again. (Which happened to be the same week I was interviewed and hired by Poly)
     
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    Not with the way Crete dispatches especially out West...
     
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    48Packard Ol' Two-stop Shag!

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    Sitting at the Loves at exit 64. NB commercial vehicle restriction is currently 6AM til 7PM....gonna run night shift for a few days...yippee!

    Also of note: Having spent the last several days in CA, I went through exactly one scale. I80 WB. Got the green light on the PrePass several times (including Banning WB), and Cajon was closed this morning.
     
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  5. tucker

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    i loaded in Utah yesterday, will be home in Indiana tomorow, deliver Monday.

    now I hope the other drivers that got this same load can tcall theirs somewhere.

    And yes it is rare for anything like this
     
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    Crete driver told me today...he saw 4 new Peterbuilts in transit for delivery....they all had Crete / Shaffer name on the doors
     
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    Was driver telling me truth about the Peterbuilts...no idea...just a 5 min chat at a shipper
     
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    Guy I got repowered by the other day told me we were testing 10 KWs. Claimed they're trying to put pressure on International.
     
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    I would think the recent influx of mid-roof Freightliners they have been getting would do just that. Crete tried Pete's years ago, but the reliability and availability of replacement parts did those in. I would have a hard time believing they would fork out all that extra just to put a red oval logo'd truck in the fleet. I would guess that just to put the red Peterbuilt emblem on it adds $5k to the purchase price. And a KW wouldn't be much cheaper.
     
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    Who's buying me supper at Kansas City tonight?
     
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