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[Double D 42]

Are there any crete drivers that are close to Des Moines IA. that do training. I start orientation on monday 05/14/07 I hope there is or it will be a long time before i get home because the say if there is not one close i will have to stay in hotel room by where the trainers home is when he goes home tell i get my training over with. (8 weeks) :sad: so if one of you would please let me know. Thank you

[Mtc_Is_Hell]

Are there any crete drivers that are close to Des Moines IA. that do training. I start orientation on monday 05/14/07 I hope there is or it will be a long time before i get home because the say if there is not one close i will have to stay in hotel room by where the trainers home is when he goes home tell i get my training over with. (8 weeks) :sad: so if one of you would please let me know. Thank you

I'm not with crete, but I don't believe you will be spending much time off. Not enough for this to become an issue. Believe it or not these company's like to think all we want to do is drive and be away from home.

I stayed in a rather nice upscale hotel in Texas once, Then the next time home trainer was nice enough to let me go home and he stayed in hotel.

[Uturn2001]

The possibility of spending your entire training time away from home is a potential occurance at just about every training company.

[Karnajj]

Are there any crete drivers that are close to Des Moines IA. that do training. I start orientation on monday 05/14/07 I hope there is or it will be a long time before i get home because the say if there is not one close i will have to stay in hotel room by where the trainers home is when he goes home tell i get my training over with. (8 weeks) :sad: so if one of you would please let me know. Thank you

Thers is a trainer named Jim out of the Council Bluffs terminal but chances are that he will already have a trainee when you show up. Being on I 80 is a plus because we do haul a lot of freight on that road but I would consider yourself lucky if you got to see the house more than once during your 8 weeks.

[truckintom28]

Well you might get lucky since we started delivering into Iowa for the Walmart dedicated fleet out of North Platte,Ne. If not, get your training done. Then Id consider working the WM Fleet. You get home every week to do a restart,plus you get lots of miles. Just a thought.

[Double D 42]

Well you might get lucky since we started delivering into Iowa for the Walmart dedicated fleet out of North Platte,Ne. If not, get your training done. Then Id consider working the WM Fleet. You get home every week to do a restart,plus you get lots of miles. Just a thought.

Well i did get lucky i started in may , did my traning with a wal-mart dedicated driver and now im on the fleet. yes i do get home every week to reset and this week im home for my home time. wal-mart dedicated fleet is so good im getting all the miles i can do in my 11 hrs of drive time. last week i got 3800 and change and did my reset at home crete is a great co. to work at they do what they say and then some . DD #29343 8) :wink:

[evertruckerr]

Well you might get lucky since we started delivering into Iowa for the Walmart dedicated fleet out of North Platte,Ne. If not, get your training done. Then Id consider working the WM Fleet. You get home every week to do a restart,plus you get lots of miles. Just a thought.

Well i did get lucky i started in may , did my traning with a wal-mart dedicated driver and now im on the fleet. yes i do get home every week to reset and this week im home for my home time. wal-mart dedicated fleet is so good im getting all the miles i can do in my 11 hrs of drive time. last week i got 3800 and change and did my reset at home crete is a great co. to work at they do what they say and then some . DD #29343 8) :wink:

Congrats on the WalMart fleet, that's a sweet deal over there (Easy Money). Although you may have a slightly different opinion this winter :shock:

Best of Luck and drive safe :!:

[ROCKYROAD]

On a competing Message Board all they have are complaints about Crete. Apparently drivers are quitting Crete in droves because of the Sterling Heights Wal-Mart account.

Well you might get lucky since we started delivering into Iowa for the Walmart dedicated fleet out of North Platte,Ne. If not, get your training done. Then Id consider working the WM Fleet. You get home every week to do a restart,plus you get lots of miles. Just a thought.

Well i did get lucky i started in may , did my traning with a wal-mart dedicated driver and now im on the fleet. yes i do get home every week to reset and this week im home for my home time. wal-mart dedicated fleet is so good im getting all the miles i can do in my 11 hrs of drive time. last week i got 3800 and change and did my reset at home crete is a great co. to work at they do what they say and then some . DD #29343 8) :wink:

[Bumper]

It was one of the factors that made me leave Crete.

I hear Sterling is going bye bye in Sept though....

[evertruckerr]

On a competing Message Board all they have are complaints about Crete. Apparently drivers are quitting Crete in droves because of the Sterling Heights Wal-Mart account.

Well you might get lucky since we started delivering into Iowa for the Walmart dedicated fleet out of North Platte,Ne. If not, get your training done. Then Id consider working the WM Fleet. You get home every week to do a restart,plus you get lots of miles. Just a thought.

Well i did get lucky i started in may , did my traning with a wal-mart dedicated driver and now im on the fleet. yes i do get home every week to reset and this week im home for my home time. wal-mart dedicated fleet is so good im getting all the miles i can do in my 11 hrs of drive time. last week i got 3800 and change and did my reset at home crete is a great co. to work at they do what they say and then some . DD #29343 8) :wink:

The Sterling WalMart fleet is definitely the black sheep fleet of the company. There is a thread on it if you want to do a search. There is a small number of drivers that work out of there full time, but because the company can't keep it fully staffed they eventually send drivers from the national fleet up there to do a one week tour of duty once a year. It's a nightmare deal and it is difficult to get more than 1500 miles in a week due to the logistics of the load. A number of drivers would go up there and get so upset that they would quit in frustration. Most of which are the same drivers that fail to see the big picture and hop around hopelessly form job to job.

The good news is that the contract is up or the two companies have decide to part ways and Crete has no intention of renewing it. From what I hear, Mid September will be the end of it.

The other WalMart fleets that Crete pulls out of are working out great from what i hear.

As far as the competing message board, if it's the one I'm thinking of, complaints seem to be the norm, that is one dark hole of negativity.

[Bogoa2000]

The possibility of spending your entire training time away from home is a potential occurance at just about every training company.

Perfectly said! Two thumbs up.

With my students I made a point after the 2nd week to get them home for a full weekend with their family. It's important to do this in the 2nd week because their not used to life on the road and being away from home such a long time. You know' to think about it trainers that have money problems make the worst trainers, all my buddies who trained that didnt have financial problems their student loved them. ummm, that got me thinking about something.

[Karnajj]

On a competing Message Board all they have are complaints about Crete. Apparently drivers are quitting Crete in droves because of the Sterling Heights Wal-Mart account.

Well you might get lucky since we started delivering into Iowa for the Walmart dedicated fleet out of North Platte,Ne. If not, get your training done. Then Id consider working the WM Fleet. You get home every week to do a restart,plus you get lots of miles. Just a thought.

Well i did get lucky i started in may , did my traning with a wal-mart dedicated driver and now im on the fleet. yes i do get home every week to reset and this week im home for my home time. wal-mart dedicated fleet is so good im getting all the miles i can do in my 11 hrs of drive time. last week i got 3800 and change and did my reset at home crete is a great co. to work at they do what they say and then some . DD #29343 8) :wink:

Oh yes, we are definitely going down the toilet. We are losing drivers at the rate of hundreds a day! Customers are canceling contracts because we don't have enough drivers to cover them! Drivers that are staying with the company actually have to pay Crete to stay there! The sky is falling, the glaciers are melting, the oceans are rising and at the rate people are committing suicide there won't be anybody left in the world by the end of August!

The truth is the Walmart fleet in Sterling was a very minor part of the Crete system. Yes, it wasn't run very well the result of which is we won't be in there any more after 9/15. Drivers aren't quitting in droves over this (unless your definition of "droves" is less than a handful) and any drivers that did quit over being "forced" to work the fleet were foolish. I can't tell you how many times I was asked to go there to lend a hand and I turned them down each time with no negative repercussions.

Rockyroad, next time you feel like posting negative comments about a company you know absolutely nothing about please do us a favor-------- don't.

[nickbtubas]

i do remember have numerous fatalites in 2006. In fact one night i was re-routed around a fatal accident in Atlanta where one crete driver side swipped a UPS wigglewagon in the breakdown lane. The UPS driver was under his trailer fixing something and the crete driver hit the UPS trailer and kill him...

note this was at night on I285 with no traffic. also dont forget the accident where the crete driver killed 5 or 6 in one accident down in Florida. One reason i haven't applied at Crete.


Nick

[Karnajj]

i do remember have numerous fatalites in 2006. In fact one night i was re-routed around a fatal accident in Atlanta where one crete driver side swipped a UPS wigglewagon in the breakdown lane. The UPS driver was under his trailer fixing something and the crete driver hit the UPS trailer and kill him...

note this was at night on I285 with no traffic. also dont forget the accident where the crete driver killed 5 or 6 in one accident down in Florida. One reason i haven't applied at Crete.


Nick

And your point is what? Because two drivers had bad accidents Crete is no longer a good company to work for? If it was CFI, using your logic, you would be down on them too?

[nickbtubas]

i do remember have numerous fatalites in 2006. In fact one night i was re-routed around a fatal accident in Atlanta where one crete driver side swipped a UPS wigglewagon in the breakdown lane. The UPS driver was under his trailer fixing something and the crete driver hit the UPS trailer and kill him...

note this was at night on I285 with no traffic. also dont forget the accident where the crete driver killed 5 or 6 in one accident down in Florida. One reason i haven't applied at Crete.


Nick

And your point is what? Because two drivers had bad accidents Crete is no longer a good company to work for? If it was CFI, using your logic, you would be down on them too?

point is: the have a history of fatal accidents meaning they are under more scrutiny from DOT. CFI, which was my former employee, is a FAR BETTER company than crete will ever be. CFI's equipment is, by far, better than a stripped down FreightShaker

[Karnajj]

i do remember have numerous fatalites in 2006. In fact one night i was re-routed around a fatal accident in Atlanta where one crete driver side swipped a UPS wigglewagon in the breakdown lane. The UPS driver was under his trailer fixing something and the crete driver hit the UPS trailer and kill him...

note this was at night on I285 with no traffic. also dont forget the accident where the crete driver killed 5 or 6 in one accident down in Florida. One reason i haven't applied at Crete.


Nick

And your point is what? Because two drivers had bad accidents Crete is no longer a good company to work for? If it was CFI, using your logic, you would be down on them too?

point is: the have a history of fatal accidents meaning they are under more scrutiny from DOT. CFI, which was my former employee, is a FAR BETTER company than crete will ever be. CFI's equipment is, by far, better than a stripped down FreightShaker

I see. So you are one of those who would take a severe pay cut in order to drive a nice truck? Hmmmm, doesn't make much sense to me but hey, to each their own.

BTW after two years with Crete I make more money than 90% of CFI drivers. Why would someone with a years experience take 35 cpm when they could go to Crete and make 41?

Another point; for someone who is so warm and giggly about CFI you sure didn't stay there very long, did you? Well under a year IIRC.

[nickbtubas]

the reason i didnt stay longer was becuase of a death in the family.... and while i was home a found a carrier where i could be home multiple days a week and still get 3000miles/week

i would, however, work for transportation when i get the courage to pull a skateboard

[greg3564]

i do remember have numerous fatalites in 2006. In fact one night i was re-routed around a fatal accident in Atlanta where one crete driver side swipped a UPS wigglewagon in the breakdown lane. The UPS driver was under his trailer fixing something and the crete driver hit the UPS trailer and kill him...

note this was at night on I285 with no traffic. also dont forget the accident where the crete driver killed 5 or 6 in one accident down in Florida. One reason i haven't applied at Crete.


Nick

And your point is what? Because two drivers had bad accidents Crete is no longer a good company to work for? If it was CFI, using your logic, you would be down on them too?

point is: the have a history of fatal accidents meaning they are under more scrutiny from DOT. CFI, which was my former employee, is a FAR BETTER company than crete will ever be. CFI's equipment is, by far, better than a stripped down FreightShaker

CFI's safety record is exactly the same per capita. Crete has twice as many trucks and drivers than CFI.

Crete had 17 fatalities in the last two years. CFI had 8. Again, if CFI had double the drivers they would have 16.

Crete had 164 injury accidents. CFI had 104. At double the drivers CFI would be 208. So Crete's percentage is better here.

Crete had 295 towable accidents. CFI had 132. Double the drivers CFI would be at 264.

The inspection percentages are pretty close too.

CFI
Type Vehicle Driver Hazmat
Inspections 3843 6298 432
Out of Service 371 267 33
Out of Service % 9.7% 4.2% 7.6%
Nat'l Average %
(2005-2006) 23.14% 6.80% 5.39%

CRETE
Type Vehicle Driver Hazmat
Inspections 8337 13991 609
Out of Service 926 236 42
Out of Service % 11.1% 1.7% 6.9%
Nat'l Average %
(2005-2006) 23.14% 6.80% 5.39%

[Popeye]

That will never work Greg. It took common sense and thinking to comeup with those answers.