CRST Malone (Flatbed Division) SUCKS!

I have been working for CRST a little over 3 months now. I know several drivers in my class that have already turned in their trucks. The bottomline is you have to be proactive on the load board. They tell you in class you have to find your own loads and their are correct. I talked to one driver who was turning in his truck and he said he regularly had 200 miles deadheads( but he has asking his fleet manager to help him find loads and calling agents). OMG....I average 14%. I got discouraged when my truck was in the shop about 2 weeks in a 3 week time period but I am out of the hole now. Here is the trick to making things work at CRST......
HAVE A GOOD COMPUTER and fast connection. My beautiful wife, bless her heart, is the driving force behind this driver! She works at night and prowls that load board many times during the day. I am loaded 2 days in advance most of the time. I am making all my payments plus I'm home most weekends but I have her booking my loads and talking to agents. That support at home is essential!!!!!

Those drivers without their own pc's dont have the tools they need to be successful. If you do a lease purchase like I am doing get your tools, and be proactive, This is your business, if you are lazy you are going to fail. PERIOD!

 

why not just be an independant Owner op? That is basically what you are with these guys. If your gonna be on your own anyway, why not give yourself more freedom?

 

Loan us the money for a down payment on truck. Tag. Insurance. Trailer. Hell if u can do that we will all come see ya

 

Good info, thanks! What area are you from that allows you to get home on the weekends? How much are you or could you be grossing each month? (before all expenses are taken out)

 

I live in central Alabama and this makes the 9th out of ten weeks I have been at home for the weekend. She gets me home, I guess she just has a talent for that loadboard. I will have to go back and see what I did this last month BUT todays Comdata "payday" was a little over 1k AFTER EXPENSES. I am about a quarter of the way there now. Every few weeks we have to go to another loadboard(like when I needed out of Tulsa this week after getting serviced in OKC) but she doesn't like to do it. Did 5 loads this last week and on track to do 5 this week also. It can be done and if you could come home to that( see attachment), wouldn't you be wanting to come home?lol

Now one thing I don't like is going to Rockport or OKC for service. The home office is in Alabama so why aren't there any service centers in the SE?

 

NO. Agents have boards and they have drivers. The BEST freight used to be put on an agent truck. They get 76+8 percent for every load. For great loads, they can broker and get 25-30 percent, without spending a cent. We lost our best loads, to broker fees.

 

hey i know what u mean this company leases trucks to ppl n put a three yr bumper to bumper warranty on it n then they dont want to fix it n put ur family n everyone in dept but them. my husband took the truck to a shop n they only wanted to fix one thing n not do what my husband told them to do. so now he is stuck in colorado with a whole #### load of probs n they will only look at it this company is a ###### joke n there dispatchers n everyone there is ok as long as there families r doin great cause they get to sit in an office all #### day n make money n have there perfect little lives as the truckers n there families get ######. its not right at all crst malone can XXXXXXXX