In my last week of school with CRST, anyone had problems getting hired somewhere else

pattyj · May 28, 2012

FatDaddy said: ↑

Really? In my first year of trucking, my wife decided to take an unpaid leave of absence from work to care for her dying father full time. I supported her and 3 kids on a trucker's salary. And the company I worked for was CRST.
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Guess it can be done.But don't know how without other assitance.Was you receiving any government asistance while at CRST?

25(2)+2 · May 28, 2012

You can pay it off, but unless you complete the time on the contract, you will have a CDL with no certificate of having received training, unless they have really changed things to benefit their drivers(not gonna happen). If you can still avoid signing the contract, look into alternatives for using the training you received from the CDL school and paying for same.

Lspilot82 · May 28, 2012

I for one applaud you for doing what you have to do to take care of your family. Its awesome you have people that are there for you and willing to help out and watch your kids while you do this. My advice is this. Quit listening to all the negative and focus on the positive. Give CRST a chance and get your own opinion of them. Don't let people discourage you, and fill your had full of BS. Yes, CRST is a bottom feeder company, and yes they are far from the best. But, where would we be without bottom feeders to give us newbies jobs and experience that we so desperately need in order to go on to bigger and better things. Stick with them for the 8 months, learn as much as you can during that time, and go on to something better. CRST its just a Sterling stone for us. Don't run things before you even get started. Pay your dues and you will be rewarded. In the scope of things, 8 months isn't that long. You will do just fine.

27butterfly13 · May 28, 2012

pattyj said: ↑

so how can she provide on a newbys income and living on the road?
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I can tell you how, I have a mother who is a nurse and makes good and will be staying with my kids just as my grandmother stayed with my Uncles kids when he was out on the truck. My Uncle had custody of his three children and worked for Pilgrims but now his kids are grown and he works for BlueKnight now making better than he ever did at Pilgrims. He makes 300 a day and I just talked to him and he is on his way to OK to pick up a new 2012 car he just bought. I don't understand this negativity I'm hearing, we all have to start from the bottom, I just think some people forgot their first day.

27butterfly13 · May 28, 2012

windsmith said: ↑

Well, you say that you can pay off the tuition and walk. I say give CRST 3 months and then weigh your options. That will be enough time to get you the OTR experience that you need to be able to move to another company, and it will give you a feel for what you'll be earning at CRST. If it's not what you need, then decide whether it will be more cost effective to pay them off and move to another company, or stick it out and complete the contract.

There are crude haulers and companies that operate vac trucks (dirty job, but probably cleaner than the chicken farm) in the Victoria, TX area that hire new CDL graduates, and pay hourly plus overtime. Not really close to home, but closer than an OTR job.
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Thank you, the reason I asked was because I have heard like out of ten people in the last class only two were hired on with CRST. I don't know the reasons but it seems to be a lot of people for it to be on their part. The way it sounds is they get a discount from the school and and in return are just telling people they will hire them for the school to make profit because until these people pay the school they are denying they attended to other companies.

FatDaddy · May 28, 2012

They will tell you up to the day you are officially hired, which is the last day of orientation that you can be denied employment. The truth is, as long as everything checks out you will get hired. If you test dirty, fail the road test, lied on the application...etc, that is when you will not get hired.

rachi · May 28, 2012

villasana63 · May 29, 2012

you can get hired with any company after CRST. Most companies know that CRST is a bad company. I quit them after three weeks and got hired immediatly with another company. I would highly recommend a company that hauls dry cement and sand. They are normally all local and they train you to drive doubles (which are easier than a 53') . The pay is good (average about 900 a week, take home), and they hire newbies.

Ex-Con-Trucker · May 30, 2012

I've seen much worse around here. I think working for CRST is a bigger problem than not being a good speller.

vinsanity · May 30, 2012

I worked for CRST for a year and a half. I had no problem getting hired elsewhere. Most people you see having that problem are people who backed out of their contract. No company will hire you if you do that.

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