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

Your right I got May and Interstate confused

 

Crete does hair follicle testing?
wowser!

 

I’m doing great, in my 6 months of daycab driving I lost all the weight I put on in the 11 years I was OTR.
I’m working on getting a house built. The blueprint guy called me today and said he got the blueprints and material list finished. I can’t wait to meet with him and see how the floor plan turned out. But then it may be too expensive and I may have to build a sod house.

 

Forgot to mention Knight/Swift just bought Abilene Motor Express’ 400 trucks. Making them even larger.

Knight-Swift Buys Trucker Abilene Motor Express

A company that says they value experienced drivers but then moves their entire fleet over to automatic transmissions?!? Why?!? Werner has already made the switch to all automatics as Winston told me by phone last year. The fact he knew that tells me there is some conversation between them.

It’s the only explanation that makes sense.

Occam’s Razor - Given all the possible explanations for a situation, the simplest one is usually correct.

 

I wonder if crete and Werner will merge here some time in the next couple years

 

I really hope it’s not the case

 

I'm glad to see they stuck it to Amazon. .that bs of having a truck sit for hours and then tell them they cancelled and such is bs...more carriers need to do that with amazon..

 

I read Ostergaard’s statement in that article, and I actually found myself agreeing with him. But then I read this quote from him and everything was back to normal:

As a result, Ostergard said that Crete has refused to lower its driver hiring standards, and in fact, has implemented steps to ensure it gets only the best drivers.

 

Which we now is a bunch of BS.. He has lowered the standards because great used to have very high standards and stringent requirements the drive for them now as long as you got a pulse and breathing you can drive for them...

 

They have to lower the standards. OTR is a s•••ty life and with the ever increasing restraints negatively impacting already low pay, it’s actually amazing ANYONE would want to drive OTR.

I had a great time out there but I never did OTR with ELOGS. Just came to work, performed a job, and went home. I run the same route each week and come home empty so the ELOG is doable but would still be nice to be on paper sometimes.