CRST beware of this company

Hey what about me ......................can I go tooooo

Southside................glad to hear things going for you.........drop me a line..

Bull do what you have to do for yourself dude............

 

Started with CRST in November of '04. You betcha' those first 6 months were rough...I'll just say if I NEVER eat top ramen again it'll be to soon. But I knew what I was getting into before I signed anything. knew I'd be broke for a while, so I planned ahead. iirc I made 24k the first year. Know I made 40k year two, 45k year three, and am on pace to do 50k this year. If I could do it all again, I do it the same save one thing-I'd have taken a loan and gone to a private school so I wouldn't have had such a rough first 6 months

The whole key to making it work is having a good codriver, and always being safe and early. They've taken pretty good care of me, and I've taken good care of them, their customers, and their equipment. We average 6,200-7,500 per week, and pull almost exclusively Conway freight drop and hook. I'll be leaving for CRETE in a couple months, but won't burn any bridges, maybe I'll come back when I'm old and tired and train for them.

 

The perdiem is easily fixed: Call payroll, tell them you want to opt out of perdiem. They will fax you a form, fill it out and fax it back. Bingo! your off perdim. Then when you file your taxes every year, go through your logs and count the number of days you were away from home.

Take the standard perdiem rate (I think it was $53 last year) multiply it by the number of days out, then multiply the solution by 75% (it goes up to 80% this year). Use form 2106 or 2106EZ. 53*.75=$39 dollars for every WHOLE day you are away from your tax home.

You would use this instead of your standard deduction on your 1040. Also save receips for gloves, boots, warm weather gear, glass cleaner, paper towels, etc. etc. there is also a 2% limit of your adjusted gross income that you need to know about.

It's best to use a tax preparer that KNOWS THE INDUSTRY!! H&R Block are ####### when it comes to drivers.

Regards,
Scott

 

scott my man u were lucky to be getting those mile me im lucky if i get 2000 to 2800 miles a week please remember i run team unlike u you knew what it would be like.. i didnt do much to any research on crst i just went with what the recruiter told me i didnt know much about the bizz now i know.. little to late but im in it now cant turn back the hands of time .if i had to do it all again id pay for school my SELF

I applied for a driving position at USxpress. When I received a confirmation for three day orientation in Lincoln Nebraska they called me to cancel my orientation. Two of my past employers, Midcities Motor Freight in St Joseph Missouri and Vitran Express, Terminal in Kansas City, Kansas claimed they terminated me when in actuality I quit them both. Midcities is a piece of work. Their driver turnover is extemely high. They're training new drivers 3 to 4 every week. Vitran is a sorry case to. Their driver turnover isn't as high as Midcities but never the less it's consistant. Midcities is in the Intermodal industry which is the most sorry, unsafe industry in trucking. Intermodal is time consuming which is why Midcities don't pay by the hour, they pay you by what you do, some call it piece work, I call it performance work. You don't move any containers or chassis' you make nothing. If they send you on a road run and have to wait to get loaded or unloaded you get no detention time, although they promise you get it, it's even written in their work rules, it's a big lie. Drivers in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City Missouri save yourself some anguish and stress, I would recommend you stay away from these two companies, also their dispatchers communication skills sucks, they talk to you as if you're some Indentured Slave. Makes you want to hurt someone in the dispatch office after talking to them on the company radio. They haven't learned, in most situations dispatchers can make or break a company when it comes to keeping good quality drivers. One jack off who dispatches recently got out of a missouri state penal institution,so you know he doesn't possess communication skills. Drivers Beware!!!



SOUTH THIS IS WHAT I WAS THINKING ABOUT WHEN U TOLD ME CRST SENT YOU THAT LETTER ..... WHEN I LEAVE IL Resign Gracefully ......

 

In the words of a famous filandering president, "I feel your pain". Recruiters prey on ignorance, and tons of drivers have learned the same way you did. You'll get through it. When you leave CRST, don't jump. Do your homework, talk to drivers for the companies that you're considering, some will be disgruntled, so you'll have to read between the lines and find a company that suites your needs. Good luck!

Regards,
Scott

 

What contract deal are you under dude? I drove for CRST Malone for 2 mos. They say $1.77 cpm I was lucky to make $1.40 cpm and then they were only running me frm b'more, md. to ATL. atlas says 684 miles they paid for 576 miles. Get to ATL then sit for 3 days waiting on a load, week is done. Then still had to pay $185 for trlr rental on top of other nichols and dimes they screw you out of.

 

I am suppose to start with CRST next week and what I am reading is that maybe I should reconsider my career with this company! Is there anyone here that can say anything positive about them? I know that every company is going to have something said negative ... its just the way life is but is there anything positive to say?

 

Welcome to the forums, GG!

Start readin' the threads about good companies and
bad companies.
That should answer a few of your questions.
Then again, it might cause you to want to ask more.

If so, ask away.
That's why we're here.

OH!
I recommend making yourself a snack.
The readin' could take awhile.

 

I work for them, and me and my co-driver get good miles, I am bringing home almost 600 a week with about 5 months in. I am not under the contract. If your late or the FM sucks then you get sucky miles.

 

GG...... definitely take some time and get to know this site....... the time you spend here could save you untold hours of misery out on the road...... not to mention $$.........

Just go up to the top and click on Search and begin your quest......

To get you started I am going to post a direct link to the DAC Reports section where posters talk about each specific company.......

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/trucking-company-dac-reports/

Good luck and Welcome!!