Starting at Crete 2/18/26

Discussion in 'Crete' started by Cherokee65, Feb 17, 2026.

  1. gentleroger

    gentleroger Road Train Member

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    There are more than enough valid reasons to remove Elon from your Christmas card list, this isn't one of them.

    This is a guy putting out AI slop trading on Tesla's name. Any video using AI should be considered extremely suspect, especially when the topic is political or the claims made are widely outside the norms.
     
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  3. Cherokee65

    Cherokee65 Heavy Load Member

    Down until tomorrow morning at Love’s in Sydney, OH. 72° here for the high. Nice weather! Going to grill some pork chops seasoned with Killer Hog made by Malcolm Reed out of Hernando, MS this evening on the catwalk. Old Malcolm knows his way around a grill and his seasonings are So GOOD!
    We got a load out of Ohio going to Michigan.
     
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  4. navypoppop

    navypoppop Road Train Member

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    Glad to see that you are still at it. How is your career progressing? I hope that everything is going well and that you are enjoying your journey so far. I hope to be able to meet you someday just to say hi and chat awile.
     
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  5. Cherokee65

    Cherokee65 Heavy Load Member

    Things are going ok. My pay went up substantially when the company gave everyone a 3¢ pay raise. Things are better but I’m still stuck with the same asset manager. If I could get a different manager it would be a lot better. I sent her a message asking for an MT trailer, 10 minutes later she asks if I need an MT? I send her a message saying that I need a load… 30 minutes later she responds by asking me if I need a load. (Roll My Eyes!) I send in my ETA/PTA, then 5 minutes later I get a message saying that I need to send in my ETA/PTA. I’m documenting every message that I send and every message she sends me with the date and time. When I have had enough of this idiocy then I’ll go talk to someone who will listen to me instead of placing all the blame on me. If I have to, I’ll get a meeting with Tonn, one way or the other. I shouldn’t have to send repeat messages saying the same thing I just sent a few minutes earlier.
     
  6. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    You're more patient than me, my sarcastic side would have already made me show my arse to the point that management would have already had me on the phone. If they would ask me if I need a load I would have erupted and gotten borderline offensive on her and said something like "what do you think? Get me a load whenever you find time between your pottie breaks and YouTube cat videos and run out of stupid questions to ask me" or "hell no, I enjoy sitting on my ### babysitting this truck, staring at the Peoplenet waiting for you to do your job while burning $6 fuel...it ain't my money you're wasting..."
     
  7. Cherokee65

    Cherokee65 Heavy Load Member

    I like your sarcasm!! Love it! I’m kind of new to Crete and I’m afraid to say anything like that because I’m afraid of getting fired over it.
     
  8. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    Good point. Of course my first go-round with Crete 20-sumthin years ago, I got called into Lincoln to have a sit down with 2 VPs about my sarcastic comments (and my posts on this forum)...and I not only kept my job, but got a free lunch from the Ops manager because he said he's never seen anyone speak to them like that...it was sort of a respectfully truthful but opinionated non-butt kissing truthful tone. I don't bite my tongue or sugar coat what comes out to anyone, I say what I gotta say, and if they don't like it, that's their problem. My wife and I joke about weekend dispatch being like that old Life cereal commercial where it's "I'm not gonna try it, you try it.... let's get Mikey", only dispatch is like "I'm not gonna call him, you call him...."
     
  9. navypoppop

    navypoppop Road Train Member

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    I wouldn't stand for her incompetence and continued stupid responses. I would have to go above her in a flash. The is not acceptable for a driver to deal with that.
     
  10. mitrucker

    mitrucker Road Train Member

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    Yeah. I would’ve gone over her head a long time ago. I once told a dispatcher after asking a few times for a load home, that if he didn’t get me one soon that I was going to his boss. Well, he offered me a load not near home. He heard a click and I called his boss. Got a load home. He called me back surprised that I did that. Some people just don’t get it. Oh, fresh college grad. Go figure.
     
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