These guys offered me a job the other day.

[MichaelJT]

 

[Electric Chicken]

Are you gonna take it? I know a shortcut to the terminal.

 

[Hammer166]

I don't know what they're like now, but before Schaffer, Crete was the kind of place that kept drivers for decades.

 

[Duck]

I don't know what they're like now, but before Schaffer, Crete was the kind of place that kept drivers for decades.

@Mike drove for them a couple hundred years ago if I recall correctly.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I don't know what they're like now, but before Schaffer, Crete was the kind of place that kept drivers for decades.

What, like hostages until stockholm syndrome kicked in?

 

[Mike]

If I was to be a company driver again, and one of their terminals was near me or my location allowed me regular hometime, they would be on my radar. Only reason I left Crete was because I was moving from Texas and "thought" I had landed a good local job.

 

[Electric Chicken]

If I was to be a company driver again, and one of their terminals was near me or my location allowed me regular hometime, they would be on my radar. Only reason I left Crete was because I was moving from Texas and "thought" I had landed a good local job.

What was the local job?

 

[Mike]

What was the local job?

Shuttling a set of doubles from Little Rock to where I lived in South Arkansas every night. the 2nd part of the job was supposed to be loading trailers for a little while each night to supplement the income.

Shuttling the doubles and loading my two trailers paid me about $800/week. Adding a little time loading additional trailers would get me to $1200-$1400/week. The additional trailer loading didn't happen due to racism being a bit of an issue at that warehouse. Got to the point where I wasn't even loading my own trailers anymore after multiple altercations in the warehouse and I bailed. It was a fight I wasn't going to win.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Shuttling a set of doubles from Little Rock to where I lived in South Arkansas every night. the 2nd part of the job was supposed to be loading trailers for a little while each night to supplement the income.

Shuttling the doubles and loading my two trailers paid me about $800/week. Adding a little time loading additional trailers would get me to $1200-$1400/week. The additional trailer loading didn't happen due to racism being a bit of an issue at that warehouse. Got to the point where I wasn't even loading my own trailers anymore after multiple altercations in the warehouse and I bailed. It was a fight I wasn't going to win.

Definitely sounds like it wasn't worth it.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Shete has a terminal near me but I never hear anything about them good or bad. But they must have been going well during that can't-fail blitz a couple years ago because they built a brand new bigger facility on fresh ground and I don't think a single inch of it is unpaved.

 

[Sinister]

Crete pulls our groceries out of Mankato.

Marten pulls our groceries out of Tomah.

After every blizzard we have to shift capacity to help cover Mankato.

Thats rarely the case for Tomah.

 

[Duck]

Crete pulls our groceries out of Mankato.

Marten pulls our groceries out of Tomah.

After every blizzard we have to shift capacity to help cover Mankato.

Thats rarely the case for Tomah.

Two different states. Maybe Wisconsin takes care of the roads better.

Minnesota uses beet juice and makes everything worse.

 

[Mike]

Two different states. Maybe Wisconsin takes care of the roads better.

Minnesota uses beet juice and makes everything worse.

Or Crete has the same policy as Walmart when It comes to weather.

 

[Sinister]

Or Crete has the same policy as Walmart when It comes to weather.

What is it you think that policy is?

 

[Duck]

What is it you think that policy is?

If you see a snowflake, pull over and have a panic attack, then call a tow truck to pull you to the nearest safe haven, mail the keys to Bentonville and when they consider it safe to move, they'll mail them back.

Or something along those lines.

That's what the Werner jury would have you do.

 

[Sinister]

If you see a snowflake, pull over and have a panic attack, then call a tow truck to pull you to the nearest safe haven, mail the keys to Bentonville and when they consider it safe to move, they'll mail them back.

Or something along those lines.

That's what the Werner jury would have you do.

Thats exactly correct.

 

[Duck]

That's exactly correct.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Crete pulls our groceries out of Mankato.

Marten pulls our groceries out of Tomah.

After every blizzard we have to shift capacity to help cover Mankato.

Thats rarely the case for Tomah.

Marten are arrogant. When I first got my CDL I asked if they take new drivers and they snottily said "2 years minimum. Click."

Well fark you and your ugly ass unwashed trucks too.

I figured they took new people because the advertised pay wasn't that great. Made more at US Xpress with a half mile commute.

 

[Sinister]

Marten are arrogant. When I first got my CDL I asked if they take new drivers and they snottily said "2 years minimum. Click."

Well fark you and your ugly ass unwashed trucks too.

I figured they took new people because the advertised pay wasn't that great. Made more at US Xpress with a half mile commute.

Yeah they are. They think Tomah is their terminal. Not that they're under contract and it's temporary.

They are blissfully unaware of how many DCs that private fleet has taken over in the past few years.

I just chuckle to myself.

 

[Electric Chicken]

It's always nice to know who not to bother working for if the opportunity were to arise.