My Daily Experience With Crete Carriers

I have run into a couple of those but had a plan B.

 

I c. Well not that I'm opposed to running out there heck I'll go pretty much anywhere for a buck cuz I'm greedy. I just like a lot of variety. Plus i refuse to cross the george Washington for free. Yea i understand i get paid by the mile but if I'm gonna sit in that cluster i want paid for it. We get 200 or 250 to cross it here and they ask if ya wanna go. We do have forced dispatch otherwise but on long island they ask us if we are willing to go or not.

 

I'll usually try to go around it. Like today I'm going to try 287 to 87 to 84E to 91N to get home. Fridays and Holidays are insane up 95N through NY and CT. Dealt with that 2 years ago every Friday.

 

Yesterday was a decent day. Got to the shipper a little before 6am. A little over 3 hours to load. Was a nice easy drive to Winchester, VA . Decided to stay at the welcome center 9 miles from my 8am delivery. The welcome center is a very nice spot vs the flying j up the road... 1 spot was left when I pulled in..
Currently 2.5 hours into my live unload of....... yea u guessed it.. 29k lbs of Toilet Paper. I heard it's all the rage these days. Lol

Picking up my D/H load in Shippensburg and headed to NH for my hometime. It's going to be another time sensitive trip. Delivering Monday at 4:00am in Danvers MA. After that a live Leominster, MA load to Shippensburg, PA

Enjoy your weekend and be safe!

 

Have you been able to keep a close to regular schedule at Crete?

 

Yes for the most part. Usually home Saturday but did get home Friday night last week. Starting to see some same delivery patterns.

 

Well I made it home Friday night around 21:00 with 5 minutes left on my clock. The only way this week was going to work was by heading out Sunday night and staying at the receivers for the 4:00 delivery due to my live load not being scheduled till 13:00. Lets just say that it worked great even got loaded in Leominster at 11:30. Took about an hour then I headed for Shippensburg. Talk about NO traffic in NY during rush hour. ####. I took 287 and went through around 17:00. No jams and traffic was flowing freely.

Delivered and picked up in Shippensburg Monday night and shut down at the terminal. Next problem. This load didn't deliver till Weds at 19:00 ugh.. Called Dispatch to see if I could deliver early or did they have something for me so I didn't have to sit in NY for 26 hours. They found me a nice little $200 puddle jumper from Milton, PA to York, PA. Even had enough time to drive up here to NY last night and stayed at Jims Truck Plaza. Where I'm currently 15 minutes away from the receiver and I'm waiting to start my clock as late as possible. This is a live unload and I'll gaurentee they will burn up 3 hours of my time. Hoping to do my pick up in Buffalo tonight and get to Palmyra at some point overnight. Flipped my schedule around to stay ahead.

Side note: PA shut down all rest areas including parking Monday night. Stupid move but I'm hearing they are going to open them back up. Truck stops are nowhere near the capacity they used to be. Pulled in here at 23:30 last night and at least 20 spots open. Others I've driven past are near empty most afternoons. A lot of non essential freight has stopped from what I've read.

My old job, who delivered 98% retail stores are shutting down for a couple of weeks due to the stores closing for at least 2 weeks.

Crazy times..

 

So I started my clock at 18:05, did my pretrip and headed to the receiver in Lancaster, 15 minutes down the road. Checked in at 18:45. Got the call for a door at 20:10. took 15 minutes to get to the door because the check in process changed and no one knew it. Walked into the receiving office, sent to the lumpers desk, "$255 please and we won't start unloading until we have the check" ugh.. Back to the truck. over 30 minutes later someone from Crete dispatch answers. Get the code and walk back to the lumpers desk. 5 minutes later i hand him the check, he calls it in, then tells me We'll call you when we're done. I know what this means... 1 1/2 hours later my light finally turns red. After dozing of a few times i get a call at 1:55. 7 hours later.. Well there goes my plan..

I decided just to go to Buffalo and do my D/H and back to Jim's Travel plaza for my 10. Roll in there at 4:00 and it was 1/2 empty.

Up at 11:00, I make some breakfast, clean up the truck and do my daily research on what's closed now..
Head out after my 10 is up. Quick D/H in Palmyra. I get a message saying that my load home was cancelled by the customer... WTF. So now I sit here at the terminal awaiting a new load. It's been 2 1/2 hours since I messaged dispatch who was getting with the planner... Still nothing. Funny thing is we haul a lot of essential stuff right now.. So we'll see

 

Are you pulling a reefer?

 

Dry Van but They will send me with a refer load to get home if available. Or at least they did once.