Crete/shaffer Chocolate Account Info

Hey everyone I've been talking with a recruiter for crete/ shaffer and was wondering if anyone works on it or has worked on it in the past sounds good from the recruiter but I never know when to trust them any info would be much appreciated thanks

Why would you not trust what the representative from Crete told you?

Not so much crete just been lied to in the past from other recruiters I'm hopeing to get some info from anyone that has first hand experience with the account

Why would you not trust what the representative from Crete told you?

Josh, are you new to trucking, or are you an experienced driver?

I've got a year and a half in at ptl

Josh, are you new to trucking, or are you an experienced driver?

I don't know about that dedicated account but my everything my Crete recruiter told me when I came over from Schneider was true. I started out OTR on the 21 day fleet starting at 50 cents a mile loaded or empty. I was getting around 2600-3000 miles a week, I have since switched over to their Walmart dedicated account out of North Platte, NE and I generally run 3000+ miles + a week, with last week being 3300 and this week being 3200.

So in my own experience, you'd have no reason not to trust the recruiters here. The dedicated accounts are pretty stable work at least here on the Walmart account.

Not to mention Crete takes home time very seriously, if that's a concern for you. You generally get one day off for every day on the road excluding any dedicated or local accounts that might offer a different type of home time setup.

Not to mention Crete takes home time very seriously, if that's a concern for you. You generally get one day off for every day on the road excluding any dedicated or local accounts that might offer a different type of home time setup.

One day off for every 6 days on the road*, sorry very tired had a long day!

Well I'm not going to say recruiter lied, but maybe were misinformed..

I still wouldn't trade working this account. Can easily get spoiled, with the flexibility.

Josh, I have zero experience with Crete. I do have years of working on a dedicated account though. So, I'm just going to say there are some huge perks to being on a dedicated account. You'll gain understanding of how it works the longer you stick with it. You're also going to be developing a strong relationship with a particular dispatcher - that alone is really valuable, especially if you are proving to be worth your keep.

I literally have "extra" money, that I didn't consider to be mine, thrown at me every week. It's my dispatchers way of rewarding me for being so helpful to him. These dispatchers on these dedicated accounts have considerable leeway to negotiate extra pay from the customer. If you get on a dedicated account, make a point to learn how it works. I promise you can make some really great money at this when you understand the inner workings.

You can literally learn to manage your appointments so you time it right to be consistently dispatched the best loads. Some of the other drivers here have complained that I'm getting all "the good stuff." They are kind of right. They just haven't figured out how to make sure they are available when those best loads are going to need to be pulled. There's more to this than knowing how to drive these monsters. Learn how and when the loads develop on these dedicated accounts and you can set yourself up to be riding high.