My Expierence at CR England

A couple of things ... If you stay on with your trainer ... If you don't get off you may be able to stay on as a company driver, it's a win/win. He never pays more that the phase 2 student rate to CRE $.11/12. You get company benifits and the service raises. You will also the monthly mileage bonuses.

If you lease, do so on your own, don't partner through him. The costs are the same and the profits are the same, except now he takes a cut off the top, shorting you. Also don't get the demo lease it comes wiht strings, ie after the demo period it turns into a long term or you hit the bricks ... instead look for a short lease, closing out one that someone has abandoned. The shorter the better. The advantage, is CRE will count it as a compelted lease for you and you get the completion bonus and can move on at your own terms.

 

I some how missed your post last week. He is doing a little better with his new student on miles this past couple of weeks. And he has been checking around when he gets a chance, he talked with someone last night. Now that he has his year in (he had a previous year with another company and he quit when the market went south and we were sitting more than driving at the time back at the end of 2009).

I think as long as CRE is trying to use you, they give you miles like doing the phase II and phase I training; if you don't they starve you out.
I am just hoping he can get a couple more good weeks in where I can get the land payment paid off so we don't have that to worry about and then just the house payment and other bills. Luckily we don't have credit card bills and things like that.

Out of all the DM's he has been contacted by for swap loads, etc, the one he has is a lot better, the person is an ex-driver I think he said; but sometimes complains about communication and when you communicate that was the wrong idea for the day, otherwise he is not pestered too much on where he is or what he is doing. He had one fairly new DM this past weekend send him a message that they were running late running the load, don't know how she figured that, guess she didn't have nothing better to do.

 

I'm not sure if this is good for a dedicated run with someone the husband talked to or not, it would be on a dedicated run with around 5100m with a 5000m or so on the short week or weeks, has to be team and pays 48C a mile, split, using their truck. And there is a safety bonus each quarter. He's considering it.

It looks to me like having a reefer with the option of dry van would give you more options on loads, of course I am sure the reefer must cost a fortune more.

 

I hope you have some ice cream cake before you tell your trainer. He might break the other windshield.
Good luck as to what you decide. Remember that your exposing yourself to potential problems if you get a bad student to train is it worth the extra money putting yourself at risk for short term gain.

 

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the guys I meet seem to like it
and I need someone in LA to deliver my loads so I can head for the rockies and plains again.

 

Everyone has been pretty quiet on here, whatz up?

 

They all got fired???? ... But actually this is how it works. Everyone is all full of pee and vinigar after training and are all pumped when they first go solo .. singing the praise and the wonders of working with CRE ... then reality sets in.

Life on the road is tough, a lot tougher that they thought. Then running a lease isn't as easy as they were led to believe, it takes work and at CRE a lot more work than most people are willing to put in - especially since CRE has stacked the deck.

So, people quit, fail ... move on. And they have egos. It's the rare individual who can admit they were wrong or that they failed - especially after pounding thier chest about how they can make it work.

Be patient though ... soon a new batch of recruits will come on. They will drink the kool aid, take the blue pill, sing the praises of CRE and the cycle of life at CRE will repeat.