Questions about Oregon Trucking Companies

Haven't been reading much here , have you ?There are volumes of pages on C.R. England . 99% of them are bad .
A lease/operator is NOT an O/O . There re also many pages on Lease/Operating , 99% of them bad also .
The $.33 a mile team is split between the drivers .
There are NO decent companies anywhere training drivers . Why do you think they are constantly having to train drivers when there are tens of thousands of experienced drivers out of work ?

 

Unclehams, do yourself a favor and RUN as fast as you can from CRE, they will rip you off, they will take your money, leave you broke and then they will fire you, take the truck and send you a bill for 5 thousand bucks for repairs. Read all the threads here in the bad company threads at the top of the main page here. There are more places to get a cdl and learn to drive than CRE sucky company. If you really want to go ahead and lose everything to them then more power to you.

 

Have you tried Swift? they have a school there in Troutdale OR. For starting out they are good and WAAAYY better then CRE. As was said stay the hell away from CRE. Unless you are looking to get screwed hard you would be better off never getting into trucking. They are the lowest of the low. They have even had drivers arrested for grand theft for going home.

 

I believe Swift has closed the Troutdale school (terminal still active). Now they do Pac NW training at Lewiston, ID. Post-school training (mentor time) is based from your home terminal (Troutdale in his case).

Troutdale is a mostly OTR terminal--and is a nightmare to find parking in. Sumner, WA handles NW heavy haul (costco) and has tons of runs into Oregon for easy home time. I have a post in the Swift section about heavy haul if interested.

 

As A Grad from Swift and from Oregon, they HAVE closed Troutdale, they will send you to PHX. Swift has a good school there, but 7 weeks otr with my trainer was HELL. He only let me back 3-4 times, Swift says "28 to make it great" I did my road test passed (no backing), was giving a nice Volvo and a Load to Denver and a Load from there, the 1st week I was looking at 2,800 miles, how ever I DID NOT! fell like I can back safe with only doing 3-4 I spoke to the Safety person and told him why I was not ready to go, he said " you passed your road test you will be fine." I went home for my 2 days of home time, was thinking about that the hole time. I went back the night before my load was to be picked up and gave my keys to my DM, He started to yell at me where am I going to get someone to take this load, I opened the door and said how about one of the 8 drivers sitting there crying they don't have a load and have been here 2 days. In short if you go with Swift make SURE you get your backing in, as you will learn just about ALL accidents are backing accidents.
May Trucking out of Brooks is a good one to work for but they don't have a school.

 

@8thnote - which company is he driving for?