Stay away from cr england!!!!

I feel so bad for some of these people I've been talking to while I've been sitting here at the bus station in Kansas City,MO. A lot of them are headed to C R England training in Utah. I've asked them if they have read or heard any of the stories about England. Out of about a dozen or so people going, only 1 believes SOME of the stories they've heard. A few of them are women and I know that the recruiting department must have had one hand on a ground rod and the other on the phone,(so they wouldn't get killed by lightning) because some of the stuff these poor people were promised to get them to come out there were so far from the truth that they need a GPS to find their way back. I really hate how they were lied to. They actually told one woman that while she was in training they would pay her 500 a week and pay the rent on her house for the 3 months she was going to be out with a trainer. I mean come on! Really!?! CR England should be held accountable for what they "promise" these people.

 

I don't really think anyone would cave in to teaming, training or just tossing in the towel for the lack of money so to speak , its moreless being burnt out at an early stage because you have to run your butt off and only take a four day hometime for no less than 5 - 6 weeks at a time. Trust me, I know. I had to run our truck for about that amount of time by myself while my wife went sick and, it was tough. Fortunately I had an excellent DM at the time who kept me busy and I ran awesome miles but at the end when my wife came back, I pretty much came to the conclusion that if I ever needed a reason to not lease solo, at least with CRE, that was it.

I consider myself as a hard worker but, ####.

 

I know that most of the recruiters are people that you can't trust them for as far as you could throw them when it comes to getting truthful answers, but nobody ever told US that our bills would be paid for while we were in the school and training program.

The fact that you're proclaiming to believe this crap that you heard is utterly preposterous.

When we got back from phase one, we were walking down the hallway and overheard one guy telling several other people that CRE took his drive tires off his lease truck, put them on a trailer he was pulling at the time and told him to buy 8 new tires. It took everything I had to keep from walking over there and laughing in his face.

Where do people come up with this stuff??

 

You just said the same thing , as a solo you ran harder with out you wife. Try it for two months and see how much money you make after the trk payment and other fees corny

 

Not necessarily.

My point was illustrating that even though it's hard, you can still make decent money as a solo.

LOL, I don't need to try it for two months to prove a point. I'd still make the same amount of money as I did in the first month.

I guess you didn't realize that the truck payment, insurance, variable mileage, all that stuff, is taken out on a weekly basis from your weekly check.

This coming from someone with a screen name of "donkeyshow"........

 

I never said I believed a word of it, I knew for a fact that if the statement she said even came out of a recruiter's mouth, that it's a ploy and nothing more. Unless she recorded the call and/or had it in writing that this was in fact the conversation that did in fact take place then it would have been the "deal of the century" and that she had just won the trucking lottery sweepstakes grand prizeapalooza.

I actually feel insulted that you'd even think that someone ... anyone, who has been in trucking longer than 5 minutes would actually believe this. I was merely pointing this out that this was in fact heard by me at the bus station in Kansas City, MO from a woman who was (or still is ... considering we're talking about Greyhound here) on her way to live "her dream" going to school to obtain her CDL and become the next best thing to LED lights and sliced bread.

 

My sincere apologies for making you feel insulted.

Maybe It's the way you wrote it, the way I read it or combination of the two that seemed like you were buying into what you said you heard from this woman.

There was a few things our recruiter said that turned out to be bogus like, telling us we needed to have our own individual combo padlocks so that while we were bunking with several other people in different rooms, we could secure our personal stuff in a locker, which was dumb since we had our own room because we signed on as a husband and wife team, but that was it. Oh, and telling us that we could go right back to where we started while in class when we got back from a funeral, which wasn't true.

We had to join the next class in line and basically twiddle our thumbs till that class caught up to were we were at before we left.

 

I believe that if someone were to actually sit down and write a book about "things we learned at trucking school" it would become an instant New York Best Sellers list item.

I've always wondered where we got the phrase "Y'all ain't gonna believe this" , That's something else someone who has time could write a book about.

Don't worry about me feeling insulted corneileous, it was just a passing feeling, I get them all the time ... that's what happens when you get old.

LOL

 

Yep, a lot of it you just gotta take with a grain of salt.

What gets me though, is how so many people believe the negativity they read on here. I mean, its one thing to be gullible, for a lack of better terms when you hear stuff like that in person from someone but, on a web forum?

With all the times I've been called a company shill or a recruiter in disguise, it makes me wonder sometimes how many of these negative posts and threads are written by just that.

Some actually carry it out and defend their comments but most just post one time about it and disappear, never to be heard from again.

 

Let me help you kids. Why do you think you can lease a truck when you first get into trucking? You don't know anything about the business and you're going to "buy" into it? Very, very, very few people actually complete a lease. It's not designed for you to do so. CRE is one of the worst offenders out there but somehow someway people are still lining up to pay them for a job!! Need proof how this lease/purchase thing doesn't work? Go look at a JCT truck. After the truck number, there is a letter. That letter denotes what driver is in that truck now. From A to Z. You see a truck with the letter F on it, it means that guy is the 6th driver who is leasing it. 5 other guys failed and now he thinks he can do it. Stop the madness already. Research your career. I called then just out of pure curiosity. They said 2300 miles a week. How do you pay for fuel, truck note, insurance, YOURSELF, maintenance, etc on 2300 miles a week? You don't. Stop getting played. I don't feel sorry for the guys who fall for this anymore. Simple math tells you that it's a bad idea.