Crete/Shaffer‼️

If there is a reefer load that needs covered, and you're the only option...they'll put you on it regardless of you being Crete. It doesn't happen often, but it will happen. In my 10 yrs there I pulled 5 or 6 Shaffer loads. The myth that most reefer loads typically deliver in the wee hours is just that, a myth...some do, many don't. Years ago that might have been the case, but with the JIT world of trucking now, it's really no different than dry van appointments

 

I don't believe that is true. I remember signing a document stating that I would receive .01 cpm to pull a reefer. The girl told me not to sign it if I didn't want to pull them. That probably wouldn't stop dispatch from trying to get you to pull one but legally would help you if you did.

 

That's why many Crete drivers resist and complain about pulling the occasional Shaffer load, as a Crete I didn't make the extra penny...but if given a choice of sit or pull a reefer and keep moving...I would pull the reefer. They may have changed the "forced" part of pulling one, when I was there it wasn't an option without a fight.

 

I heard Schaffer has a lot of drop n hooks for a reefer outfit.

 

That's what is important, you're happy and enjoying your life.

Money isn't everything, I quit a 100k/year job cuz I hated sleeping/living in the truck 5 days a week. I gladly took a 30k pay cut to drive 5 miles back and forth to work, weekends off and home after my 9-10hour work day.

Everyone is different, gotta do what makes you happy, and works best for you. Life is to short to be a miserable SOB