Crst malone flatbed.

Ask all the questions you want and I will try to answer them if I know the answer. I am still doing good, but in the winter months, Nov thru first of Feb can be brutal for some, you may have to learn how to run places you did not want to or wouldn't in the summer months when there were plenty of freight and you had many choices to pick from.

Example, you get a call in the summer for a decent load and you say not yet, it is still on the board a couple of hours later.
Winter, you get a call and get offered a load not great, and say let me call you back, you decide to take it, call back in 10 minutes and it is already gone!
Winter months you may have to deadhead more in order to get the loads, not many good paying loads will appear on the board, and you must learn how to develop relationships with agents or it can be rough trying to make it at CRST or any Company.

Being an OO is not about being BossHog as many have found out, Boss Hog was just a ficitional person! As a OO you have to figure out what you can and can't do, what you can and can't haul for, but most of all you have to be able to make decisions and take responsbility for them if they are good great, if bad, learn from them.

I spend alot of time in prayer and though it does not make everything perfect and easy, it does make me realize that I cannot do this alone! God is not my Co Pilot, but My Pilot!

 

Remember, I left CRST Malone on good terms, so it is not a bashing I am giving them, just straight up. Tarp Pay.... you are told during orientation that if they collect tarp pay, you will get it. Problem is during my year time of employment, got tarp pay... somewhere around 15 times, but tarped 95% of loads. I hauled mainly coils.

When you ask about tarp pay, most of the time they will tell you, well we don't get it so we can not pay you for it!

This is the reason it is very important for you to realize what you need to make a profit in doing this. You may get a load (I have with CRST, not often) that paid to the truck 3 bucks a mile, then again you might be offered one that paid 1.30 to the truck to get out of Houston Tx, (Chain Link Fence).

In the Houston deal, she got all kind of mad when I told her I did not haul cheap freight, but this is where you better know ahead what your plans are if you are offered this kind of stuff.

Some folks say take it just to get out of an area to better paying stuff... They will remember if you take the cheap stuff and try to make it all the time for you! But then again if you don't they get pizzed and some remember this against you.

What I did was got on the phone and found a pipe load (no Tarp) to OK and then got another broker trying to send me to New Jersey for 1.50 a mile, no tarp pay, no toll road money? Was told same thing, nothing else to get so better take this load, did same thing got on phone got load to Bham AL paid 1.90 to the truck.

If you go to Crst Malone with the attitude it will be easy, they will help take care of me..... YOU WILL FAIL AND QUICK!

Agents are like people, you have some that will cut your throat and smile the whole time saying they are doing you good, then you have some that remember you either good or bad when you work with them, and then you have some..... VERY FEW who are good and they are the ones you want to make a lifelong realtionship with in the trucking business..

You MUST REMEMBER... the one that will make or break you is not the agents, not the shippers, not the receivers, when the day is done, the one that will make or break you is YOU! You will either make it or not by what you can do with your salesmenship.

When you take a load and it delivers tommorow at 7 a.m. be there, you will get a name for either being a person that can be depended on or one that must be checked on from time to time.

Like I said I left CRST on good terms, have had letters asking me to come back, so not bashing them but just wanted you to know you can make it, but it is not the pie in the sky.



But if you go with the attitude, it will not be easy, there will be a learning curve and it could be hard money wise I might have to live from paycheck to paycheck, but I will do whatever it takes to make this work, you can make it. BUT REMEMBER IT IS NOT EASY, BUT CAN BE DONE!