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

Mine never drops that low when coming off coast, I just hold down the petal, or downshift and it keeps right on going. Unless the load is heavy, I rarely drop below 62 when pulling a hill. This truck pulls better than any of the 10 speed trucks I've had here

 

The worst part is mfg’s are constantly working with fleets to take away options from drivers. At some companies you can only select drive, neutral or reverse, no shifting or changing modes.
Soon auto braking and assisted steering will add to the mix with Freightliner leading the way. Really it’s only the backing that’s left to demonstrate skills anymore, they really want driving a class 8 truck to be no more difficult than driving a pickup...

 

Found on reddit, Tampa, Fl yesterday.

 

Wow. 2 threads to hold it all, nearly 2,000 comments total. When the original thread was still young, it was a large part of what convinced me to go drive for Crete - in 2008. Now I've not driven a truck in 5 and a half years, but I still come by here because I guess I sometimes miss the road. It was definitely an adventure! Anybody still around from back then? Supersnackbar? Evertruckrr? jdrentzjr (I guess I could just call that last one, we talk pretty regularly)...

 

Supersnackbar left Crete a few years ago...but now he's back at Shaffer...his new thread is...Snackbar is chillin ..at Shaffer

 

Flatbed tagged a parked Crete truck

 

That looks expensive. And it also looks like it was on the flatbed's sight side. What the heck?!

 

Just payback for all that reefer noise . Seriously that’s shameful...

 

Don't stop till it sounds expensive

 

I've tried to find as many Wylie glass haulers to park next to as I can, just to be a "big richard", but I have a hard time finding any since I departed there.