STARTING WITH CRST LOOKING FOR A cO-DRIVER FROM COLORADO

hey Bossman, give it a shot! If CRST was that bad, NO one would be driving for them.. to each there own and your going in already knowing that they are a start up company which is good.. I too will be starting with a start up and WE ALL KNOW THE CRAP~ everyone thinks they have something new to share about how crappy a company is.. WE HEARD IT ALL GUYS!!

 

While I will agree you need to take a lot of what is said about any company with several grains of salt, you also need to understand sometimes the negative is 100% correct. For the record i am not one who usually posts negative stuff about any company.

People go to CRST because they didn't do enough research or they 'Heard it all' and refuse to listen, or they believed the grand promises CRST recruiters are fond of making. Dig deeper and you will find very few who last the entire eight months. In six months my son had three team drivers.. One did his best to spend my sons money. One was an idiot who refused to drive at night and the third left the company when my son did for the same reasons my son did.

It doesn't require any fore-thought to see which of the mega-carriers are running and which are sitting. A team truck doesn't or shouldn't have a reason to sit overnight or days on end. Visit a few truck stops and see which 'team' trucks are there.. If you can try to see if their trailer is sealed or not. No seal, No freight... No freight, No money being made. I see way to many CRST trucks sitting and not because they want too

However, it is your career.. You don't need to listen to any of us, but please don't come crying back here when your grand delusion is shattered by reality.. You see those are the people who scream the loudest at being wronged... Those of us who tried to warn you will probably sit back and quietly say 'we told you so'.. Well some won't be so quiet... There is a price to pay for that 8 month contract... The question is: Are you willing to pay it????

 

CRST, will have yours up and downs. If you Do you job right, not late on loads, no bad inspections, don't refuse any loads for any reason you will be fine.

For the most part your experience with CRST is all going to depend on if you like your co-driver. Your time here and be vary bad if you can't get along with him/her?

Good luck if you have any question just ask me. I have been with CRST for 3 years.

 

Around your 3rd week of your 28 days there going to send you a list of available co-drivers in your area on the quelcom

Just call them up and try to find someone that you think you can get along with.

If you call some one and they say that they have been with 5 co-drivers in the last years, then you know the chance are that he not going to be the best choice. Or if the person just bad mouth the company.


One thing I did when I first started with crst was ask my co-driver is What was his long term goal with crst or any trucking company .
and we nearly had the same idea on what we wanted to do so we help each other on the way keeping each other focus on what our goal was.
This made driving with my co-drive a good experience.


BTW I have only had 1 co-driver since I started with CRST.

 

So CRST was in the wrong by putting on his DAC that he quit early.
Thats what he did, didn't he?

 

If you check out "doonerlivingstone" on youtube you'll see that he started with CRST, not sure how long he stayed but I think he has almost a years worth of videos with them. Fast forward to now and he's running double drop step decks for Kaiser Transport driving a sweet pete' and from what I can gather making good money, this guy seems to cross the country about 3 times a month, and with their cents per mile the paychecks must be nice. All I'm trying to say is there is a success story to look at, step deck might not be the course you want to take in life, but simply put it seems he had a goal in mind and sucked it up at CRST until he could fulfill that goal.

 

you know this from what experience... I haven't been a trucker long, but the reason companies like CRST get away with the crap they do is because new folks do take it lying down...

Yes I said Air Miles... You think they would get anyone to work for them if they actually said this to recruits... Fact is recruiters lie, and recruits accept the lies..

If all CRST did was say he quit early I would not have a problem with what they put in his DAC; however, that was not all that was said... It states he was rude to shippers and receivers, consistently late and would ave been terminated if he hadn't quit and he was not consider re-hirable.. Funny the letter he got from them begged him to reconsider..

Good luck with them. I sincerely hope you are amongst the few who actually succeed with them.. I have said all I could to warn you and will say no more..