Hello everybody I'll like to warn everyone who's thinking of going to CRST Expedited for their so called free cdl program. My recruiter was named ms. Erica Vincent and yes she is full of crap. She got me into the program without looking over my MVR or job application properly and tried to blame me when I got sent home over a ticket that was paid already and it wasn't even a moving violation. The dorm rooms are crap they make you pay for everything upon your start of employment, when you are only making .25 cent a mile. They say your meals are paid..lol. They feed you like you are in daycare and the breakfast isn't cooked you have a choice of cereal and toast. Yet you will pay for this crap. You are roomed with 3 to 4 people in IA and people carry STDs don't take baths its just disgusting and very unsanitary. The program overall is a scam and they want to ruin your driving career before you can even start it if you don't fulfill your 10 month contract. I'm not bashing this company because they didn't hire me.. I never was under contract with them so through a technicality with my recruiter dropping the ball on my app I owe NOTHING I got my CDL Free but I'll like to warn others about them because you might not be lucky as me. They are very unprofessional scam artist and they will take advantage of you because they know you are in need of a job. Do not QUIT your job for this company either I know a couple guys who was on the same bus home with me who did that and they don't know what to do now. They promise you a whole heep of junk just too test and see if you make it out of school once you do that orientation you find out that they never ran your info as they said they did once you was so called was accepted into the program. I got another job now and I'm scheduled to leave tomorrow and you don't have to run teams and they pay pretty decent but good luck if you go to crst you might make it through the first process but I can bet on the challenge a be to get through that suicide contract. Best of luck.
My Husband has been an owner op and trainer with crst for the last year,everything was going well until they had a management change,so last september things went down hill,the pay was totally screwed up,he was getting other drivers pay on his card other weeks nothing at all took him two whole weeks in cedar rapids in december to get it straightened out.inthe meantime our house was in jeopardy. During the holidays all owner ops had a voluntary maintenance account for every mile he put in mony and the company matched it,he was told he could use it for anything.He came home before Christmas, the whole month of january there was nothing ,he started out in February, then crst kept shutting the states down cause of weather, so he wanted his maintence account, well come to find out everyone of those truckers maintence accounts were gone!some drivers had 2000 dollars or more in them they disapeared.payroll showed him that it said he bought eight new tires,what a lie, with our house in jeopardy i never would of gone for that.
no management there cares ,these drivers dont know what to do. So he was out the last four weeks,and had two different students on his truck,he still had nothing going on his pay card,last week another trip to cedar rapids, back to payroll, he was not the only one ,all these truckers wondering where is there pay, where is there maintence account,well he was always told if u breakdown for seven days payments are deferred, also they Qualcomm and told them if if you worked the holidays your payments will be defered for january, also crst qualcomm and said since February was bad, so payments were deferred since they wer the ones shutting people down.all lies noone was getting paid because they took every defferd payment at once .without any warning or anything, anyway he was gone for a month and made 117.00.as i write this i am so shocked but its true.there were truckers there that had not a dollar for food, i am warning everybody out there, please do not work or lease on to this company.also his student told him they recruited him out of a homless shelter, they told him at least he would get a place to stay and eat for awhile. I have more to say ,but at another time.ps my home is still in jeopardy.
They promise a certain amount of bonus, but rip you off when time comes to pay that bonus, based on mileage driven they will not count all of your mileage so they can pay a lower rate. I have the proof on my pay stubs. They promise home time with your family, then screw you out of it when you need to be there no matter how important it is
CRST International Inc Reviews
Hello everybody I'll like to warn everyone who's thinking of going to CRST Expedited for their so called free cdl program. My recruiter was named ms. Erica Vincent and yes she is full of crap. She got me into the program without looking over my MVR or job application properly and tried to blame me when I got sent home over a ticket that was paid already and it wasn't even a moving violation. The dorm rooms are crap they make you pay for everything upon your start of employment, when you are only making .25 cent a mile. They say your meals are paid..lol. They feed you like you are in daycare and the breakfast isn't cooked you have a choice of cereal and toast. Yet you will pay for this crap. You are roomed with 3 to 4 people in IA and people carry STDs don't take baths its just disgusting and very unsanitary. The program overall is a scam and they want to ruin your driving career before you can even start it if you don't fulfill your 10 month contract. I'm not bashing this company because they didn't hire me.. I never was under contract with them so through a technicality with my recruiter dropping the ball on my app I owe NOTHING I got my CDL Free but I'll like to warn others about them because you might not be lucky as me. They are very unprofessional scam artist and they will take advantage of you because they know you are in need of a job. Do not QUIT your job for this company either I know a couple guys who was on the same bus home with me who did that and they don't know what to do now. They promise you a whole heep of junk just too test and see if you make it out of school once you do that orientation you find out that they never ran your info as they said they did once you was so called was accepted into the program. I got another job now and I'm scheduled to leave tomorrow and you don't have to run teams and they pay pretty decent but good luck if you go to crst you might make it through the first process but I can bet on the challenge a be to get through that suicide contract. Best of luck.
My Husband has been an owner op and trainer with crst for the last year,everything was going well until they had a management change,so last september things went down hill,the pay was totally screwed up,he was getting other drivers pay on his card other weeks nothing at all took him two whole weeks in cedar rapids in december to get it straightened out.inthe meantime our house was in jeopardy. During the holidays all owner ops had a voluntary maintenance account for every mile he put in mony and the company matched it,he was told he could use it for anything.He came home before Christmas, the whole month of january there was nothing ,he started out in February, then crst kept shutting the states down cause of weather, so he wanted his maintence account, well come to find out everyone of those truckers maintence accounts were gone!some drivers had 2000 dollars or more in them they disapeared.payroll showed him that it said he bought eight new tires,what a lie, with our house in jeopardy i never would of gone for that.
no management there cares ,these drivers dont know what to do. So he was out the last four weeks,and had two different students on his truck,he still had nothing going on his pay card,last week another trip to cedar rapids, back to payroll, he was not the only one ,all these truckers wondering where is there pay, where is there maintence account,well he was always told if u breakdown for seven days payments are deferred, also they Qualcomm and told them if if you worked the holidays your payments will be defered for january, also crst qualcomm and said since February was bad, so payments were deferred since they wer the ones shutting people down.all lies noone was getting paid because they took every defferd payment at once .without any warning or anything, anyway he was gone for a month and made 117.00.as i write this i am so shocked but its true.there were truckers there that had not a dollar for food, i am warning everybody out there, please do not work or lease on to this company.also his student told him they recruited him out of a homless shelter, they told him at least he would get a place to stay and eat for awhile. I have more to say ,but at another time.ps my home is still in jeopardy.
They promise a certain amount of bonus, but rip you off when time comes to pay that bonus, based on mileage driven they will not count all of your mileage so they can pay a lower rate. I have the proof on my pay stubs. They promise home time with your family, then screw you out of it when you need to be there no matter how important it is