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okie
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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Location: Driving around in the dark looking for a WalMart.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject: Where ???? |
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| Do Crete Drivers have a favorite forum they post in on the web? |
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Clay51
Joined: 25 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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rickc1970 wrote: buckeye wrote: As a newly recruited Crete Driver can you guys post some of their trip routeing rules, fuel stops and such. I just got the verification this morning. Start 9/11 on the Indy regional. Thanks
Buckeye
They send you routing and fuel stops on the qualcomm. If you want to take a different route and need different fuel stops you can call and request the change they will help within reason. If you can make the stops they send you you can adjust the route on your own.
Buckeye, that is the way it is supposed to work, but it only works if the person making the change is smarter then the computer. A close friend of mine who also drives for Crete called our terminal manager in Wilmer two hours ago for a change to the fuel solution for her trip. She is in El Paso,, loading off Ext 34, and was to fuel in Anthony at Ext 0 for a load to PA. Rather then run 68 mile of of route, she wanted it changed, so she got a new fuel solution. Petro, EXT 37, 72 gallons, then to Anthony for a fill, then back past the Petro to head to PA, only 74 miles out of route. It helps when the person the driver talks too understands the problem, but sadly, not all do.
This same person once did not understand why I needed a change to a fuel solution. She could not understand the route given was not a legal route, using US 64 east of Cleveland, TN. Took ten minutes to convince her I had to use another route.
Wonder when they will let the computers drive the trucks? |
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Karnajj
Joined: 01 Sep 2005
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Location: Cincinnati
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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Clay51 wrote: rickc1970 wrote: buckeye wrote: As a newly recruited Crete Driver can you guys post some of their trip routeing rules, fuel stops and such. I just got the verification this morning. Start 9/11 on the Indy regional. Thanks
Buckeye
They send you routing and fuel stops on the qualcomm. If you want to take a different route and need different fuel stops you can call and request the change they will help within reason. If you can make the stops they send you you can adjust the route on your own.
Buckeye, that is the way it is supposed to work, but it only works if the person making the change is smarter then the computer. A close friend of mine who also drives for Crete called our terminal manager in Wilmer two hours ago for a change to the fuel solution for her trip. She is in El Paso,, loading off Ext 34, and was to fuel in Anthony at Ext 0 for a load to PA. Rather then run 68 mile of of route, she wanted it changed, so she got a new fuel solution. Petro, EXT 37, 72 gallons, then to Anthony for a fill, then back past the Petro to head to PA, only 74 miles out of route. It helps when the person the driver talks too understands the problem, but sadly, not all do.
This same person once did not understand why I needed a change to a fuel solution. She could not understand the route given was not a legal route, using US 64 east of Cleveland, TN. Took ten minutes to convince her I had to use another route.
Wonder when they will let the computers drive the trucks?
When that happens ( and it only happens rarely) you fill up regardless of how many gallons it tells you to get and then ask for a new solution before you need to fuel again. I can't understand why there is so much griping about the fuel solution situation. Yes, you may once in a while get a solution that makes no sense but all it takes is a phone call to get it staightened out. I think the problem is some drivers like to make it sound like there are snafu's every time they get a solution when in reality 99% of the time there is no problem at all. |
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PackRatTDI
Joined: 29 Mar 2006
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Location: Las Cruces, NM
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Clay51 wrote: Now if we could just get dispatch on the same page and get them to dispatch for the real world.
Yeah, like that will ever happen.
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On one trip this week the fuel solution took be 20 miles off the route to fuel, costing 30 minutes driving time, and almost caused a late load. So to save Crete $1.50 in additional fuel costs, I burned about $13.00 in extra fuel.
Gotta love corporate thinking. :lol: |
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Clay51
Joined: 25 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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Karnajj wrote: Clay51 wrote: rickc1970 wrote: buckeye wrote: As a newly recruited Crete Driver can you guys post some of their trip routeing rules, fuel stops and such. I just got the verification this morning. Start 9/11 on the Indy regional. Thanks
Buckeye
They send you routing and fuel stops on the qualcomm. If you want to take a different route and need different fuel stops you can call and request the change they will help within reason. If you can make the stops they send you you can adjust the route on your own.
Buckeye, that is the way it is supposed to work, but it only works if the person making the change is smarter then the computer. A close friend of mine who also drives for Crete called our terminal manager in Wilmer two hours ago for a change to the fuel solution for her trip. She is in El Paso,, loading off Ext 34, and was to fuel in Anthony at Ext 0 for a load to PA. Rather then run 68 mile of of route, she wanted it changed, so she got a new fuel solution. Petro, EXT 37, 72 gallons, then to Anthony for a fill, then back past the Petro to head to PA, only 74 miles out of route. It helps when the person the driver talks too understands the problem, but sadly, not all do.
This same person once did not understand why I needed a change to a fuel solution. She could not understand the route given was not a legal route, using US 64 east of Cleveland, TN. Took ten minutes to convince her I had to use another route.
Wonder when they will let the computers drive the trucks?
When that happens ( and it only happens rarely) you fill up regardless of how many gallons it tells you to get and then ask for a new solution before you need to fuel again. I can't understand why there is so much griping about the fuel solution situation. Yes, you may once in a while get a solution that makes no sense but all it takes is a phone call to get it staightened out. I think the problem is some drivers like to make it sound like there are snafu's every time they get a solution when in reality 99% of the time there is no problem at all.
Were I not sitting in the truck with her at the time she was given the fuel solution, I would likely agree, were it not for the fact she was on the phone and given the solution by the terminal. Of course, she did not go to Anthony, but the phone call did not solve the problem, rather made it worse had she followed it to the letter.
I ran in to a similar problem last I left the house south of Austin, Texas. Computer could not find a fuel solution, so after a call to Wilmer, my next fuel stop would be in Sweetwater Texas, meaning pushing the truck 150 miles. A call to Lincoln, similar results.."no, you can not stop at the T/A in New Braunsfel or the Pilot in San Antonio, the T/A being right on my route to the shipper, and the Pilot not far off the route to destination.
Finally I told the guy in Lincoln when you figure out how to make the stupid program work let me know, I will fuel in San Antonio. And like magic here comes a fuel solution with the Pilot on it.
Like I said, it helps to be smarter then the computer. and have people who understand the real world. |
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palidian
Joined: 12 Jun 2006
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At Swift we have to have an accurate log within 15 minutes of a fuel stop. I get dinged for fuel violations at least once a month, most get corrected, two have not, and both times the computer said I fueled over two hrs after I said I did. Both times I was at a terminal, and both time I was logged in at the terminal, at the time I said I fueled. One time I spend the night there I dropped my trailer then stood around for 2 hrs then fueled. And the other I had came and went according to the terminal log then snuck back in to fuel.
We "should" fuel where the computer tells us to, however I have been routed 100 miles out of route to save 5 cents a gallon. Not sure how that works. Needless to say I just asked for emergency fuel where I needed it.
Computers are so naughty and so complex... |
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buckeye
Joined: 26 Aug 2006
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| When I drove for Barr Nunn, they have a network of fuel stops. As long as you use one of those fuel stops you are ok. If some thing happened to where you needed a emergency stop you just sent in a macro and asking for an emergency fuel stop. They would ask for how many gallons you can get etc.. That worked out pretty good. |
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ronjon619
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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Location: San Diego, CA
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Clay51 wrote:
. She is in El Paso,, loading off Ext 34, and was to fuel in Anthony at Ext 0 for a load to PA. Rather then run 68 mile of of route, she wanted it changed, so she got a new fuel solution. Petro, EXT 37, 72 gallons, then to Anthony for a fill, then back past the Petro to head to PA, only 74 miles out of route. It helps when the person the driver talks too understands the problem, but sadly, not all do.
Damn, the price difference between the two Petros counld not have been more than 2-3 cents per gallon. Right? They just sent there driver east for a few gallons, then west for a fill up and then east to start the trip? Why not fill up at the first Petro and just keep rolling east? Also, were not talking about 5-10 miles here. |
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Clay51
Joined: 25 Feb 2006
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ronjon619 wrote: Clay51 wrote:
. She is in El Paso,, loading off Ext 34, and was to fuel in Anthony at Ext 0 for a load to PA. Rather then run 68 mile of of route, she wanted it changed, so she got a new fuel solution. Petro, EXT 37, 72 gallons, then to Anthony for a fill, then back past the Petro to head to PA, only 74 miles out of route. It helps when the person the driver talks too understands the problem, but sadly, not all do.
Damn, the price difference between the two Petros counld not have been more than 2-3 cents per gallon. Right? They just sent there driver east for a few gallons, then west for a fill up and then east to start the trip? Why not fill up at the first Petro and just keep rolling east? Also, were not talking about 5-10 miles here.
No, she is smarter than that. She just filled at ext 37 and rolled east. |
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cmegobye
Joined: 04 Sep 2006
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Location: Homosassa, FL
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| I drove for Crete for 6 years. I didn't have many complaints about them. I just talked with a driver that is still there and yes, the fuel needs to be logged when it happens. Used to have 1 hr leeway or could log at beginning or end of 10 hr break. He says that it can't be done any longer. |
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Barrelburner
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: A free western state
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Barrelburner
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: A free western state
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:42 am Post subject: Re: Where ???? |
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| okie wrote: Do Crete Drivers have a favorite forum they post in on the web? I can't speak for others..but my favorite forum is AR15.com |
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buckeye
Joined: 26 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| Ok you passed a log audit. So it doesn't awnser the question. How close does your fuel stops need to be. 15 minutes or 1 hour or 1 day? |
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Barrelburner
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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| buckeye wrote: Ok you passed a log audit. So it doesn't awnser the question. How close does your fuel stops need to be. 15 minutes or 1 hour or 1 day? I think it has to be the nearest 15 minutes..which would be 7 minutes tolerance. 1 hour was the old standard, and 1 day never was OK with Crete |
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Cyanide
Joined: 01 Mar 2005
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Location: Demotte, IN/Jacksonville, FL (Superior Carriers Truck #3110)
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| Keep it as close to your actual time spent fueling and you'll never have a problem :wink:... |
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