They accepted me for training after being denied by several others. Perhaps I learned what to confess and how to lie.
My OTR training was one long stamina excercise and I was the nite rider
while the trainer capitalized off my miles behind the curtain. Most times I had awoken during the day as we were parked # the truck stop.



I deceided I did not want to lease and put a truck payment before my mortgage and consequently drive 1900 miles a week just to break even. I went Co Drvr, determining that 3200 miles a week paid the same, $720 wk. I paid off my training fee with lump sum payments out of pocket because I did not like being charged 18% interest. At this point I was making $800 average most weeks.
I was really racking up log violations, I had more than my allowance and should have been suspended. Instead I kept getting load assignments.
I learned how to cheat my logs. No over 11, over 14 or over 70's. I can drive from S.L.C. to Omaha, Ne in 8.5 hrs.
I learned how to budget a household used to a 42K income a year to what is projected to be a 26 or 28K income. I do this on a variable paycheck $400 to $1000 a week (from the truck OTR, I DO!). To date I've made 20K plus from my hire date mid January, 2006.
They assigned me a new manager who likes to let me sit # truck stops
for 2 and 3 day weekends because I am considered low priority. Every load I get is "critical" to their account. I learned to phone and politely push my recievers to accept early. Now I seem to get all the loads with fixed unalterable appointment times.
Would I reccomend CRE? Yes. Only if you are the most determined to
drive mammajamma...

Try to get new drivers and you'll get bonus $$4 from CRE it's how you move up in their Mormon World.I know a guy who got a "BOOK OF MORMON" and puts it on his dashboard when he's in Utah.He don't sit very long anymore!
by the way he's really a Jew. Smart people they are.Out smart them at there own game.

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I think I might get one of them books for utah and maybe a couple of other books for other areas

#### It worked for him.He learned a little mormon lingo and he gets great long loads he says.

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DSOBER I am goint to be taking a huge pay cut to go into trucking also,my wife doesnt like Florida so I am thinking about Oregon ,I have talked to a CRE recruiter myself in my early days of driving school ,I have since been directed away by this forum ,and I have also been turned down by about 5 companies ,but I now have been pre hired by a smaller company here in Florida,I am goint to do some e bay selling while I go OTR to supplement the income ,I have talked to the wife about becoming actual Mormons but shes not down with that,oh well

My hat's off to your wife! Good for her!

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It's said that attitude is everything. That's good because I have a fat one.

It is the duty and the obligation of the professional driver to recognize accident producing situations soon enough to take reasonable and prudent action to avoid an accident.

Dude what are you talking about??????????????????????????? Its twice that far. And I know a CRE truck aint doing it that quick.

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WOW over 900 miles in 8.5 hours. So your loging how many illegal hours as legal.

On that SLC/Omaha trip it's about 50/50, except he's probably not logging the illegal ones.

He's gonna get caught
Just you wait and see
Why's everybody always pickin' on me?

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It's said that attitude is everything. That's good because I have a fat one.

It is the duty and the obligation of the professional driver to recognize accident producing situations soon enough to take reasonable and prudent action to avoid an accident.

What should I look out for, what should I be saying so I don't get turned down? I want to be a long haul trucker, but need some training somewhere. Oh yea, one other thing, I took some xanax about a month ago, and a muscle relaxer last week, is that an issue? All from the Dr.

Thanks for any help.

Jim