Crete / Shaffer drivers.. I've got some ?????s for you please

I'm in orientation and have been blown away by the amount of rules and paperwork.

I had to sign forms saying...

I understand that... "Layover will be not paid due to... lack of freight".
Wondering if they would pull some BS over me if they make mistakes, don't wanna deadhead me, would wait for a better load and then say... well it was "lack of freight".

Have they ever done that?

I had to also sign that "not all detention will be paid".
Plus there's a bunch of paperwork to file when detention does occur.

Do ya'll get paid and how often when detained?

Also found out that even though I could have an ELD.. which the company can always view... I still have to message in my hours everyday.
Found that strange...

How often to you all get a "choice of available loads"?

Terminal manager came in and said... most of the population lives in the Northeast.. you will be going there.
How often do you midwest or eastern US drivers get sent to the Northeast and/or NYC?

I have signed more forms than when I bought my house, 30X at least.
It's crazy the details and rules they go through and make everybody sign.
Are things more relaxed once I head out? or is all this for real?

thanks

 

or they are just trying to cover themselves.
that's why I wanna know what really happens

 

Here are my reasons.

1. I was done at my current company getting less than 30CPM and screwed over when I knew I could do better 100% elsewhere no matter where it was.. I was offered more.
2. I have 7 months experience, I researched long and hard and it seemed I needed at least a year to try and get a good tanker or LTL job.
3. Crete has decent CSA scores which was very important to me because I don't play games when it comes to doing things the right way.
4. They offered me .43 CPM which certainly seemed like a lot for my experience level.. for example that is MORE than all the drivers i knew of at my last job, even ones with 10 years experience.
5. Generally from my research drivers don't wine about them nearly as much as other carriers.
6. They have a terminal near me, let me bring the truck home.

I almost chose Southeast carriers at .37 and NO NORTHEAST, no northeast would certainly have made me very happy.
However on the phone with them they seemed less "with it" in answering my questions.
What really turned me away was their FCMSA intervention threshold went over as in nearly 90% in it's safety department.
No way did I want to deal with DOT looking at me more often because of other people's mistakes.

I will say this however...

I did catch Crete lying to me.
On these forums I saw Crete drivers saying that no cell phones are allowed, including with the use of bluetooth.
When I brought that up to my recruiter he said.. oh no we allow cell phones, it just needs to be with hands free bluetooth. "In fact we encourage it in case the company needs to get a hold of you while you're driving".
I get here and they have me sign paperwork saying I understand that any used of cell phones including with bluetooth is not allowed and I understand I can be terminated for it.

That really pissed me off.
It's not so much the whole cell phone thing... I don't like being played and lied to.
I don't care where I work or what I'm getting paid... if I'm lied to and disrespected.. I have no patience for that.

I did sign up as an OTR driver that can go to all 48, same at my last job but there they kept me north of Tennessee 95% of the time and probably 80% of my driving was from Chicago on eastward to the Northeast. If I wanted to run those lanes, I'd pick a position that offers that. I don't mind running some areas more often than others but I wanted to do OTR to NOT be in the same places all the darn time.

As long they keep me rolling, hold up their end and don't keep me stuck in certain areas especially the NE then I'll be fine.