CRST Truth Please

There's nothing wrong with asking people about their experiences. But don't kid yourself into thinking you're going to find the right company that way. It's luck of the draw. These companies have thousands of drivers. Some are great, most are somewhere around average, and some are plain awful. The idea that you're going to get an objective assessment of a company by asking a few people for their experiences is simply not plausible.

Also, go through our entire Truck Driver's Career Guide if you haven't already. It's loaded with like 72 pages of information you're going to need to know in order to get your career off to a great start.

This industry is performance based. If you perform well then any company is going to heap the miles on you, get you home when it's time to get home, and treat you fairly. If you don't perform well you're not going to get the miles, you may not get home when you're supposed to, and you're simply going to be miserable, doesn't matter where you go.

So just keep all of that in mind. And I would suggest you spend a lot of time with our Career Guide and our High Road training program preparing yourself for a great start to your career.

Sorry I didn't respond lastnight when you asked but I had to pass out for awhile. With regards to pretty much everything Brett said, such as this being performance based and getting along with your team. With that in mind, I make pretty good money for a first year driver but how much exactly shouldn't mean a thing to you because I run my ass off and maybe you will to but if that's the case you'll find out. Today is the first day in weeks that my truck will sit for 18 hours between loads... Not everyone will run like that. And while I was reading Bretts post about people bad mouthing his dispatcher about not giving them miles. But he was dead tired from running nonstop I had to laugh... Very similar experience to that..

When you start showing up hours early on loads some people have problems getting to the recivers on time... Hang on tight because your about to get wore out with miles.

I work for crst and I really can't complain. Their training school is fast paced and you'll learn a lot in a short ammoi t of time. The real learning comes when you go out with your lead driver. I had a great time with mine. I heard bad thin g about other people's but mine was great. We ran 30,000 miles on 6 weeks.

I'm running as co drivers right now and I have not sat for ore than 10 hours yet. My DM seems to be good. As of right now I Stoll have 800 miles before I reach cosignee and he already set e up with another 1,800 mile run that picks up 10 miles from where I drop off an hour after.

The pay could be better but no one is going to pay you enough to get rich when first starting out. Stick with it and the raises will come