BEWARE of CR England!

England pays you 90 Penny's a mile to rent a truck and it costs 70 to 75 penny's to run it per mile. So you are making 15 to 20 penny's per mile. No wonder you have newbies training newbies. Then the co can charge you more on the depreciation of the truck because it will be worth less when it is sold because of the xtra miles?

 

Have you husband try Werner,Schneider, USA Truck,Swift,Stevens Transport.Millis Transport,USXpress,Prime,Pam Transport he has his cdl these are starter companies but they should give him a chance and are better than CR England or CRST.

 

Reading all these posts from everyone really makes me so mad at ALL these large OTR carriers. Regardless of what anybody says to the contrary, these large carriers are totally screwing their drivers. Personally, I worked at Conway Truckload for a little over a year, for which I was paid about $30,000.Try paying a mortgage (or rent) on that! Even in a a hellhole like Missouri. Not to mention trying to take care of a family. BTW, that was to work 7 days a week, 14 hour days. Remember, even if youre not driving, you can never venture far from the truck so, IMO, you are working. Every day. And whenever you go home, youre out of the "loop" and the miles you drive will be even more affected for awhile. Now someone is going to respond and say that I probably needed to communicate with my DM or even upper management to resolve my issues with the company. Well, I did. All I ever got was an apology and a "hang in there". And I rarely went home. And, of course, if you want health insurance, you will have to pay the equivelent of up to a weeks' wages for it per month (the company only pays $100 per month). Keep in mind that the CEO of this company just made over $43 million last year. One man. Unfortunately, I am not speaking on behalf of only Conway Truckload. All the large carriers are the same. And although I was only at this company for a year, things do NOT improve with experience. The pay scale starts off at, I believe, 30. cents a mile to, I think, 36. cents a mile for an experienced driver. Wow! An additional .06 cents! And I think the absolute max is about .42 cents a mile (give or take). All at about 2000 miles a week average (many times alot less). Do the math. Terrible pay. No joke; delivering pizzas pays as much or more. I know that someone will post a response to my post here, saying that I am wrong about what I am saying about these companies; (either by paid bloggers actually working for these companies and/or drivers with a very low sense of self esteem that are afraid to try anything else). Ok, fair enough. So I will say this; physically go to any truck stop (Pilot, Petro, Loves, TA), and speak with the drivers and ask them what they are going through with their company. Speak to as many as possible. Good luck!

 

SJ Your old boss made 4 mill not 43. http://www.forbes.com/profile/douglas-stotlar/



I dislike the magas as much as anyone.

Ps I'm no blogger, you might do some fact checking .

 

Sorry brother, but my facts are correct. $43 million. One man. And you might just want to do some fact checking yourself; Forbes isn't giving all information involving compensation.

 

You are incorrect. The drivers are screwing themselves.

Where is it written that the only place a new driver can go is to one of the mega-carriers after getting their CDL? The inherent laziness of many prospective drivers is what is causing the problems. There are hundreds of thousands of trucking companies in the U.S. Why is it that people think that only the 20 biggest hire new drivers? It's not true. Many many quality smaller companies that will give a new driver a shot don't have websites, or don't advertise for drivers.

People are simply too lazy to get off the couch and find these companies for themselves. The mega-carriers have no incentive to offer better pay or better working conditions because every week there are thousands of sheep like yourself that are beating down their door for the opportunity to drive for .26cpm.

No one forces a new driver to work for these places. People are simply taking the path of least resistance. Even after reading horror story after horror story on a forum like this, people still think it will be different for them. Many new drivers have put more thought into their last lunch order than they have put into researching a prospective employer.

It's all about protecting yourself and taking personal responsibility for the choices you make

 

Frankly most people do not know of the problems of these companies. I found CRE for my husband and he applied, the website looked like it was an honest company. Did not know of TTR then and all the negative reports or he would not have gone there. He is somewhere else now. Unless a person knows they can find things like this on the internet they are just like anywhere else when you apply for a job.

CRE, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the other major training companies, is being sponsored by the government if you as me to train these people after the government chips in the money. It is a money making propisition for them, they don't lose either way, you quit before the contract for schooling ends and they make you pay the balance. They keep a steady force of labor that are under trained and under paid. And then add up all the wrecks that have occurred, they should have the worst rating of anyone I know of.

 

Blacklions, you can't hear the tune of a company damage control voice when it's singing?!!!!

 

CR England is a joke. My buddy did a lease through them, and was getting $18 paychecks. No ########.

 

Yeah, I'm a vet and scheduled to start Burns Harbor Monday, guess who isn't going to be showing up!