A question about CR. England

Good luck to you WI Newbie. All will be well.
Just remember that this is merely your start not the be all and end all.
6 months is all you need to get on with somebody else. Your next company will almost certainly make you run around with a trainer again for a few weeks but you will be paid and it will be the gateway into a much better pasture called freedom.
Keep some things clearly in the front of your mind with CRE. Don't lose sight of reality because they will try to keep you on one leg.

Just about everything they tell you is either an out and out lie or bent out of all proportion. This includes 'lecturers', office workers and absolutely everybody they will wheel in front of you during 'training' - which is painful. Even Kip - who is a nice guy - is full of it.

Be quiet. Don't give anything away. We have a plan right?

During 'training' be cooperative and go with the flow. You have already been trained and do not need anybody to tell you how to drive a truck. However you will need to know the correct lane to use at a Walmart DC and the proper way to transflo.

Bear in mind the 1st 3 week 'training' stint is for you to provide cheap labor, give another trucker an ego boost and gather some real life experience.

Bear in mind that the 2nd 3 week "CAT" stint is for you to provide cheap labor and give CRE an opportunity to keep some poor sap who leased (and is hanging in there by his fingernails) hopeful and of some use to them for a few more months. NOTE CAREFULLY HOW I WORDED THIS.

Finally you will get your own truck (not necessarily a clunker). This will give you an opportunity to provide cheap labor. Your runs will all be long because that way they will be able to pay you the barest minimum. 26c / mile when I was there.

Don't complain, keep your head down, low profile. Don't argue, remember you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Then just as the martians in "The War of the Worlds" slowly draw your plans in secret. Soon as you have something solid take off like a rat out of an aqueduct. WOOF!! Gone!

Lastly forget about CRE which should be easy because you never took them seriously in the first place. Good luck my friend and God speed.

 

Forgot to mention office workers and recruiters are not only arrogant, heartless and often unhelpful they are also completely incompetent.
Don't take anything for granted.
If you provided some valuable paperwork during recruitment take it with you. They WILL lose it.
One guy I came across was sent home to NYC for a piece of paper. They lost my tax return TWICE! Good job I had it with me or it would have been back to S. FL.

BTW
CRE is the only company I have come across that has airport style barricades and metal detector arches with an armed security guard at the entrance to its 2 office complexes. You have to empty your pockets as you enter and all knives are looked after. Makes you think doesn't it?

Back when the company was originally formed by Chester England do you think that equipment was there ?? What prompted this??

 

CRE has their issues ... mostly all the result of a lack of anything resembling management.

But the security, quiet frankly is very lax. Literally anybody can walk up and go in. Yeah they send you though a detector, yeah the guard has a gun, yeah they'll take away your knife ... but they don't bother with an ID check, no verfification if you should even be there. Anybody can walk in and just start wandering around the building.

 

This is true!
BIZARRE
They are clueless.

 

I went to school with England 3 years ago. There were 100 at the beginning, by the end of the week 50 didnt "qualify ". 20 of us graduated.
I'm the only one left # England. That 100 bucks is non-refundable. I can hear the cursing now when they say you have to leave.

 

I wonder if those who were rejected by CRE realize that compared to what might have been had they not been sent home, forfeiting a hundred dollar deposit is gettin' off cheap.

I bet there are hundreds who were accepted by CRE who wish they had been sent home instead.

 

You know a company is cheap when they pull stuff like this. When it comes to pulling money out of its own employees pockets CRE is the master.
Years ago back in Angleterre I worked at a paper factory. We had a cafeteria. They sold the food at a break even cost because it was for the employees. CRE would have a fit if someone suggested that they shouldn't screw a buck from their employees and potential employees at every turn.
I am being unfair because I am sure they are just misunderstood.
NOT!!

 

WINewbie has gone awfully quiet. I wonder what happened?