Crete Carrier Facts

December 2, 2011 by: Truckers News Staff

Crete Carrier, <plus two other carriers> have been named among Top Pay Carriers by National Transportation Institute, publishers of the National Survey of Driver Wages. To earn this award, a carrier must qualify in three critical categories: top tier pay, benefits and carrier stability.

All three companies ranked in the highest group for driver pay and benefits while Crete ranked in the highest group for financial stability.
NTI’s survey benchmarks thousands of driver pay packages and evaluates carriers on their performance for driver pay, health and retirement benefits, and financial stability. The results are weighted into a single index number and ranked against other carriers.

“We’re honored to receive the Top Pay Carrier recognition. Retaining and attracting safe, experienced drivers ensures we’re able to continue to deliver superior service to our customers on a daily basis,” said Tonn Ostergard, Crete Carrier Corp. president and CEO.

Gordon Klemp, NTI president, said, “Crete Carrier is certainly an industry employer of choice in these three areas, which all drivers are looking for when deciding where they’d like to work. We’re proud to recognize Crete Carrier, Shaffer Trucking, and Hunt Transportation as three of the nation’s best for their total compensation package with our Top Pay Carrier designation.”

 

i was recently fired from the shaffer side but i thought i'd throw my answers on here since no one is responding.
Routing ,.... they do give you what they call the suggested route. i followed it most of the time but not always. from what i understand they allow up to 10 percent out of route miles before they will start getting on to you about it.
Fuel.... they do tell you exactly where to fuel and whether you should fill or in some cases , how many gallons. sometimes i had to go a few miles out of route to fuel which is a little annoying but it doesn't happen often
Empty trailer scavenger hunts....i've been on a few of thise but again it's annoying at the time but i got over it. i worked for them for a year and this may have happened twice, no biggie
at the .42 cpm i would have made about $50k in my 2nd year. even though i don't work for them i'll still say they are a great company. i met a lot of unhappy drivers at terminals that say they weren't making money but i'm pretty sure that would have been their own fault , not the company. In my year there was one month, July, which i reallly felt like quitting cuz nothing was going right. i ended up with 4 restarts in a 3 and 1/2 week span but then august and september totally made up for that. During my training i was witha shaffer driver for 7 weeks and then a crete driver for 1 week. seemed to me the crete side was a lot more miles but i think no matter what side you are on they will do good for ya. hope that helps
frank

 

There's a guy with integrity...he got fired and STILL has positive things to say about his previous employer.

Hats off to you franktaylor.

 

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thanks guys, i could say there zero tolerance stuff sucks lol but that's about it. to give a little about my story , i got really drunk on my hometime and evidentally did some coke. although i dobn't remember doing it i don't doubt that i did. I would not have a drink for the 4 to 5 weeks i would stay out but then when i would get home i would get so drunk that i would do really dumb things. so if anything i should thank crete for exposing a problem i needed to take care of.. i haven't had a drink or drug now since October 14th and except for the fact that no one will hire me because of my mistake i'm liking the sober lifestyle. i only drove a truck for 1 year before all of this happened and i'm truly missing it now. anyway, hope i've helped in you decision and maybe someone reading this will learn frrom me, if you want to be a truckdriver you need to stop using drugs. even if it's an occasional thing, you will get caught.

 

Again, you have tremendous integrity Frank!

I wish you success in remaining sober.

 

The one fact that I will always remember about Crete is they got away with murder . They continually knowingly allowed and pushed a driver to seriously violate HOS until he ran into a car loaded with 6 children and it caught fire burning them to death . Crete hired high powered attornies the day after the accident . That fact proves they knew how wrong they were .
The driver refused to speak to investigators but got a reduced sentence . No charges were filed against dispatch or management .
Crete was fined over $50.000 but $30.000 of that was for not following proper random drug testing requirements .
I don't care how Crete operates now . It still has the same management that cared nothing about public safety and murdered 6 kids .