An Open Letter to Duane Acklie, Chairman of Crete Carrier Corporation and Tonn Ostergard, President and CEO of Crete Carrier Corporation

Is this cute little puppy the cause of Crete/Shaffer's fuel cost woes?

Subject:  Learning Over the Years How to Balance Family and Work in an Industry Not Even Their Own Company Executives Understand

 

By Renee E. Taylor

 

(ATAW/AR)  To you, my husband is a truck number, just a large, blue or red metal object that mysteriously gets your freight from point A to point B.  One of thousands of tiny dots that appear on your computer screen as you sit in your air conditioned office which you leave each night to return to your wife, children and pets.  A large, blue or red metal object that dispatchers and planners seen as an inanimate object to manipulate and control.  Problems not solved at the end of “nine to five” are left unresolved – the inanimate object left sitting in a shipper’s parking lot or truck stop for hours and sometimes days, waiting for someone to make a decision.

 

As the cost of diesel fuel skyrockets further and further, it is that large, blue or red inanimate object that is the target.  A cold, hard, metal thing that you see as you walk to your Mercedes at the end of a workday, office air conditioner left idling to cool no-one, an object not occupied by someone’s father, mother, wife or son.  Just cold blue or red metal.

 

A truck is not a hunk of steel and fiberglass that magically goes from Dallas to Los Angeles.  It is driven by professional men and women, men like my husband who have been truckers all their adult lives, learning over the years how to balance family and work in an industry not even their own company executives understand.

DNI goes out of business

However, New York-headquartered trucking company is interested in hiring laid-off employees and starting Lexington operation

By WILLIAM KEESLER
The Dispatch

On Saturday morning a Danny Nicholson Inc. truck will deliver a load of produce to a Food Lion grocery store in Petersburg, Va.

It will be the last load ever delivered by DNI, a bankruptcy court-appointed manager for the Lexington-area trucking company said.

But there’s hope for the approximately 75 employees who are losing their jobs as DNI shuts down. More from The Dispatch OnLine 

Like Jim Palmer this week, another trucking company has fallen…..