Crete Carrier Corporation facility to create 388 jobs in East Tennessee
Friday November 14, 2008
Crete Carrier Corporation has announced that they will hire 388 Tennesseans...
Crete Carrier Corporation has announced that they will hire 388 Tennesseans within three years after a maintenance center for the trucking firm is built. The $8.4 million project will be built off Interstate 40 in Roane County.
"We are looking at, if things go well, a project that could be done as early as next summer," said Leslie Henderson, president and CEO of the Roane Alliance, which leads the county's economic development efforts.
Roane County officials were first told that Crete only planned to add 40 to 60 employees when it consolidated operations now in Knoxville and previously in Greeneville, Tenn.
"It's a much, much larger employment commitment than we had thought at first," Henderson said of the revised plans.
The average wage for workers reporting to the new facility will be $16.67 an hour, according to a letter that Crete Executive Vice President Karel Znamenacek Jr. sent to Roane County Executive Mike Farmer. Crete drivers are on the road for two weeks to a month.
The center will consist of an 8,000-square-foot office and a 10-bay maintenance area, he said. The company started in 1966, has 5,700 trucks, 12,000 trailers and more than 6,000 employees.
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel
