I've been with Crete for 7years (next month) and it might be time to leave. For the most part I've been happy but the last few years I've been trying to sqeeze a raise out of them and haven't had much luck. I started with them running the 48 and quickly found a dedacaited account that paid by the run and got me home every day.The gross pay was more than what I was makeing OTR (for the most part) even tho when broken down to per-mile it was a little less than the OTR pay. Well in the years since my OTR scale has gon up quite abit but my per run pay has stayed the same. It took me a long time to get my manager reilize that the .01 they gave me last year added up to less than $6.00 for the whole years cause I get paid by the run not miles!! The only time I do get paid per mile is to go to the terminal. So if you add that up for last year it would be aprox. $1300. Now Crete has put out a .02 raise for OTR BUT NOT DEDACAITED drivers, so there goes the $1300 plus another $2600! Add on top of that I lost my free parking space (had it for over 6 yrs) and now I'm paying $100 a month to park Crete's truck and they don't reimburse for parking. Nothing like loseing out and spending four grand a year! So yeah I'm bent and have let John (manager) and Ton know how I feel and more or less go a brush off.
Rant over.