COMPANY BLOG
August 2018 Drivers of the Month
Congratulations to all of the drivers below for being selected driver of the month for their respective terminal. Many elements are considered by the individual fleet managers in their selection for Driver of the Month. Safety, mileage,...
Patriot Fleet Driver Participates in Military Makeover Show
Crete Carrier Corporation is known for helping veterans transition from active duty military to careers as truck drivers and office or shop employees. We employ more than 1,400 military veterans. Recently we were able to help a veteran...
Traveling the Highways. Traveling through Time.
As he wrote his time-traveling, firefighting, science fiction thriller with a touch of romance, author James E. Merl kept one thing in mind. “When I wrote it I thought about drivers. No chapter is longer than 6 pages. A perfect length to...
Family Connections
No matter where you work within our company, you’ll hear coworkers talk about Crete, Shaffer, and Hunt being “family”. Of course, in most cases, we don’t take that literally. It’s more of a feeling of knowing others have your back. That...
July 2018 Drivers of the Month
Congratulations to all of the drivers below for being selected driver of the month for their respective terminal. Many elements are considered by the individual fleet managers in their selection for Driver of the Month. Safety, mileage,...
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
I started my career as a truck driver almost 24 years ago. There's one thing I learned very early that’s as true now as it was then and will be tomorrow—CHANGE HAPPENS. In the last few years, it seems to be picking up the pace....
Growing Economy + Driver Shortage = New Approach
“The most valuable thing to a driver is their time. So how can we use tools out there to maximize the use of that driver’s time?” –Tim Aschoff, Crete Carrier President and COO The first lesson I learned in economics class is supply and...
Three Under Thirty
What’s on the minds of young people in the trucking industry? That was the topic of a recent “Three Under Thirty” segment on Road Dog Trucking News with Mark Willis. Three members of the Crete Carrier team under the age of thirty joined...
Communication Breakdown
Some of us older drivers may remember this as the title of a Led Zeppelin song but as we travel the road of life, communication is the backbone of most everything we do—especially when it comes to doing our part as drivers to help our...