Crete

[Bumper]

Hey Beetle, how come I am a former Crete driver but I never hear from them, but every month, like clockwork, I get a recruitment letter from Shaffer asking me to come back home????

Red Trucks, Blue Trucks, all the same trucks.....

[evertruckerr]

Get ready to clean your truck up....they ask you to remove alot of your stuff.

Yup, cleared everything out from under the bunk on the passenger side and center and came back to this:




Not as bad as I thought it would be, but it was a challenge to find a place for all of my displaced stuff.

I also had to pull everything out of the passenger side closest area, floor to ceiling so they could run the duct work for the vents.

Having a heavy duty inverter is wonderful and not having to worry about idling is a god send, but it is one noisy little sucker. I've parked next to APU trucks on many occasions and have noticed that the Thermo King units are very quite, but I got a Carrier unit that sound like a lawn mower running all night. That's when you are parked next to them.

I was surprised that from the inside you can't even hear the exhaust, which I though would be unbearable. The reason I can't hear the exhaust is because the vibration from the silly little thing pretty much drowns it out, and when the AC compressor kicks in, forget about it!

I used to pull a refer so I was able to adjust rather quickly however.

I love having some of the comforts of home again. Like a Microwave from WalMart ($35), a toaster and a small hot plate among a few other things. Makes it much easier to save a few bucks on the food bill.

Another big plus, I don't have to deal with the TV shutting down every time the truck starts up, the APU keeps the batteries fully charged.

The one thing I would find to be a great improvement would be if the inverter was connected directly to the batteries so that the APU would recharge the batteries as needed. As it is now, you can only use the inverter while the APU is running. Once it shuts off the power to the outlet is disconnected, so I still have to use my cigarette outlet type inverter for the computer and TV.

All in all, I'm thrilled to have it:

[evertruckerr]

Hey Beetle, how come I am a former Crete driver but I never hear from them, but every month, like clockwork, I get a recruitment letter from Shaffer asking me to come back home????

Red Trucks, Blue Trucks, all the same trucks.....

Hey bumper,

Maybe Crete is a little wiser :shock:

Sorry, there is no way I could let that one slip by

[Bumper]

Darn it, I knew I should have stuck around..... :sad:

Enjoy your new found heat and a.c.

[Bumper]

Thats ok Everrrrr I have been getting beat up all week around here.....

But Im still laughing all the way to the bank so I dont let them get me down...

[evertruckerr]

double post

[supersnackbar]

Any truth to the rumour that Tonn's contract is up at the end of the year and he could possibly go out the door?

God wouldn't that be an answer to everyones prayers...But I've been hearing that about Tonn since I started here 5 years ago. And he's still here. He's like a bad penny, we can't get rid of him.

And evertrucker....it's meeee.... the same as over at the other forum....(guess I'm like a bad penny as well...haaaaaa haaa. ha.)

And in response to the posts about using your phone or laptop during a 34 or a 10...The reg's don't say anything about sleeping.... so, as long as you don't do any company biz, you aren't breaking the law. It doesn't make it right if you don't rest during your break, but it isn't illegal. After all, my laptop and tv/dvd are in the sleeper, so that's where I log being when I'm playing or watching TV. It never said anywhere I must sleep when logging sleeper time.

As for the Wilkerson crash in FL, there is no excuse... any time I have hours issues or am sick or tired and I inform Crete's dispatch, the only pushing I have ever gotten is 'are you sure about your hours'. Sick and tired never gets a protest from ops...Just have to inform them about when you're ready to go. Now it may mean you're on someones hit list for a while, but hey, my name has been engraved on many, and I still have a job.

I have many issues with Crete, but being asked to run illegal has never been one of them.

[evertruckerr]

Oh Crap!

Hey SuperSnack

I see you have discovered CAD. Just what I needed, this was my hiding place from you.

Welcome anyway. :-) It didn't seem right without your adverse point of view.