CRST

CRST
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 11:14:42 AM

I am looking to hear from drivers who drive for CRST.  I am on my 30 days student team drive right now for another company and we are not getting the miles.  They put us in a truck that was not inspected after another driver turned it in.  The AC doesn’t work.  The previous driver took out both antennas, not to mention a few other minor things wrong.  Like I said before we are not getting the miles at all.  My team driver and I, in the last two weeks, have only driven 3500 miles. We haven’t even made it over to the West Coast and back once.

Only Drivers for CRST respond with their comments and experiences please.

Thanks!

RE:CRST
Posted: Sun Sep 2, 2007 10:20:15 PM

I drive for crst malone flatbed division..I have been here for a few weeks know..I dont know what the team driving is about with them if any..With my experience out on the road and from what I here out there.Every company talks a good talk but they cant walk the walk.They will tell you just what you want to here to get you there then screw you over..Ask them to put it in writing,if they arent willing to do this they arent worth your time...Better yet get it on tape of them saying it..Most companyies have know idea what the recruiters are saying on the phone to you...If anything you can get them fired over it....

RE:CRST
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:03:34 PM

Hi,

I hope you didn't give up on trucking after your CRST experience. My husband and I teamed at CRST, first for some friends who bought a truck and then as lease operators. We survived 4 and a half years there, mostly getting the miles we needed to survive.

Problems: CRST will nickel and dime you to death. When I realized they were taking out more than they should for truck insurance, I called them on it. They claimed it cost $50 a month for them to give me the service of the insurance. I called the insurance company, arranged to pay the insurance directly. They took the payment out of my checking account. Gosh, that took five minutes! Also, watch the fuel tax. When we did not have a qualcom and kept up with the miles per state, our quarterly fuel tax bill was under a hundred dollars. Got the qualcom and it jumped to several hundred.

We got a new dispatcher every year. If our dispatcher didn't quit, he was fired. And these were all good dispatchers. Weekend dispatch was a joke. I still wonder if they didn't take loads from us and say they were cancelled.

Good points: CRST knows how to run teams. We got the miles. Each new dispatcher had to try us to see if we would take a low paying load, but as soon as they knew our rules, then we ran. We made money.

In 2005 we were involved in a bad wreck. Our new-to-us KW was in the shop nearly two months. CRST leased us a truck during that time so we could keep running.

Their lease program is pretty good. We had an International with the Hawkeye maintenance agreement. When I sucked a valve at over 900,000 miles, they had a patch job done, not a full in-frame. We had paid them enough to cover the in-frame twice over. Because of that, we gave them back the truck and bought our first T2.

Now we are leased to FAF and running great... if we stay out of Miami and Denver. Pay is good. Out of route is under 2% even with us bobtailing home. And you should see the huge sleepers the veteran FAF drivers have!! To die for!!

RE:CRST
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:00:22 AM

well my friend i never worked for them im an owner operator but i can tell you of an intance when in el paso texas i happened to run acroos a man and wife team that woked for them. they had been there a week with no load and no money they had been without food for tree days , no shower no nothing  it seems the company would not send them any money period.

i took it upon my self to feed them for another week till they finally got a load, that should tell you somthing about the company i let no one go hungry been out here to many years for that and if i want to fire a driver i do it where they were hired not 3000 miles from there home never a good reason for that. think twice about that company.-------j.r. horton

RE:CRST
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:04:12 AM

CRST cannot fulfill their promoises as to getting you the miles you need.  Nor can the fulfill their promise of making you the owner operator a profitable business, unless its for them, CRST will profit off your work.  I am so far in the hole with negitive pay, i cant dig out.  I have talked to everyone in the chain, still some have not responed.  They have even rejected loads I have found on the various load boards, cant do business, they wont pay.     So far the only promise fulfilled by CRST is we ther company will be profitable.  And yes I agree about the condition of the equipment, trucks and trilers, unless you are a long term CRST driver, then you get the new, while the rest of us try to maintain your old relics.