CR England - The real story

When I was with my P1 trainer, the miles were great. New Jersey to LA and back once a week. Got to my P2 and the miles started to decline. Got in a truck with a codriver and it got worse. I even made it a point to go inside the SLC office and meet my DM so he can put a face to a name and know that I am real. Still sucked.

 

As a solo driver for England you state you average 4000 miles per week legal I would suggest you are using "new math" Allowing a 70 hour work week with required pretrip inspections, fuel stops, loading unloading, drop and hook time a realistic on duty not driving aggregate would be 15 - 18 hours of that time leaving an actual time for driving of approx 52 - 55 hours. You would have to be driving in excess of 70 mph for every second, every minute of every hour driving. Sorry not possible, without "Cooking the Books" or more common place exaggerating the truth or both. Oh and by the way time spent in truck stops eating, is considered "Off Duty" and does not waste your 70 hours, in fact I believe your company will actually allow you to log 2 one hour off duty breaks per day for meals.

 

ive said it once before 4000 miles in a company truck its not happening you might get lucky and get 3800 miles but thats about it otherwise the person is lying if they say they are running 4000 thousnad miles a week solo. 3800 miles doesnt leave you with much to run with on a 70nhour week

 

Time flies when y'all are havin' fun, huh?

Ooops!
Red flag!
That mighta been a mistake on your part.

I bet hearing that was music to his ears.
How sweet it is to hear such a beautiful noise, especially considering that the cost for a trainer to have a trainee aboard their Big truck is about $300 ----- a week just for the privilege of training them.
Oh!
And for the use of a trainee's log book while the trainee is tryin' to learn as their trainer sleeps. Which causes me to think CRE trainers must have some kind of mind control abilities over their trainees thought processes.

Perhaps that's because of something you said and your trainer relayed to the front office. Are you aware that CRE's main goal is to convince their newBees to go for the flease program they offer their newly graduated trainees with extremely limited experience before they acquire enough experience to recognize a bad deal when it's presented to them? And how CRE has a knack for weeding out those who are wise enough to avoid the upcoming pitfalls associated with CRE's famous flease program? CRE expects their trainers to convince their students to sign on the same dotted line as they did so as to receive the same benefits they're getting. I suggest you pay close attention to those benefits, which also seems to include a forced diet consisting of fewer miles as a reward when they fail to produce what CRE expects, -- dare I say "demands" of their trainers. Nothing beats first-hand experience.

I'd venture to say that the majority of drivers will answer yes to your question. It has to do with the present state of our economy and will continue until the economy improves, which some have predicted to occur in a year or two.

No need to thank me, I have nothing to do with it. IMO, neither should you.

Sounds about par for the course. Nothing new or unusual about what you've described.

So, you made it past the armed guards and successfully passed through the metal detectors just to see your DM so your DM could add another face to haunt them? That is, of course, assuming your DM has a conscience, which is doubtful at best.

Do you wonder why CRE finds it necessary to have armed guards and metal detectors for their drivers to get past just to see their DM? Are you aware that no other Big truck truckin' companies find it necessary to do that? Instead, many have an open door policy.
What do y'all suppose CRE has to fear ?
And why?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm

 

This is how a solo can get 4k miles a week with a big company. You fuel a point A. Drive to point B and do a drop and hook with another driver and drive back to point A for fuel.

 

And if y'all are pulled over by a trooper, and he/she asks for your log book, y'all ask them "which one"?

If I recall correctly, the claim was an "average" of 4,000 miles a week, meaning some weeks were more and some were less. That's hard to believe ANY way it's explained.

 

I know there have been some changes of the laws with the log book since I drove. But if you get a DM who understands when you say I am going to be low on hours and need to do a drop and hook 200-300 miles down the road after a fuel stop. Driver Managers don't know. Every thing is legal, current, and one log book. I only put the request in if I was really low on hours and the load was in jepardy because then you could find yourself driving like crazy. Every thing was legal back then and had no log violations from the company I drove for. And they were by the book and picky. My point is 4k miles a week is possible, legal, and one current log book. Pull me over anytime! Matter of fact at a scale the officer started showing everyone my book saying this is how to do a log book.

 

Now that there is FUNNY I don't care who you are, that there was FUNNY

 

Yes it is funny who much money a driver can make sitting at the truck stop for a week or two back then! Sure was hungry.

 

you are right driver, sometimes is better to take what ever load they give you so you can make the money.