Starting CRE Gary on Oct 8th anyone else?

Good luck to you! It's great you are doing what you want to do! Are you going to lease with CRE?

 

DO NOT sign with CRE unless you team or train. I know many drivers including myself that didn't make a dime. I have a nice Cascadia that I got 8 mpg out of and still had a heck of a time. Every company has angry ex drivers but CRE has angry current drivers. Never felt so used in my life. Had an awesome trainer and that was some of the best times in my life but he straight up told me not to lease unless I was getting a student. They canned me in Laredo for an accident that happened two weeks previously and left me stranded. luckily I live in central texas.

 

Wow that sounds like an awesome place to work!
NOT.

 

You've read the negative comments about C.R. England and you have "many family members and friends that are truckers", and they haven't thumped your melon for even considering goin' with the Sons-0-Chester?

They made you promise not to lease "right away"? From CRE?!!
Say it ain't so.
With "friends" like that, ..... who needs enemies?

Just out of curiosity, what is it about C.R. England that's attractive to you? With so many wash-out reports from former England Big truck truck drivers who had high hopes, what makes you think your story will be any different? Are you prepared to accept being kicked to the curb? Fired due to "poor work ethics", CRE's reason of choice for the unusually high failure rate? To have them rub salt in the wound created when the "team" stabs you in the back with a twist of the knife and a dinged DAC report making you unattractive to prospective future employers?
Do you have a plan B worked out, --- just in case things go as they usually do? Considering that many started their career at CRE, and soon after, ended their career there, how do you plan on avoiding that from happening to you too?

Personally, I think signing on with CRE is a mistake, --- but I wish you the best of success,
And hope that you'll keep us informed as to how you're doing.
Good luck CMT.

 

Well, at least you're going in with a plan and some back-up. That alone gives you a greater chance for success. I wish you the very best.

OH, and BTW....don't know if anyone has mentioned this.....but do NOT lease!

 

I think these people are under the impression that CR England offers the easiest route to becoming a truck driver or owning their " own business".
After all, you get a " free CDL license", "paid training"( to the tune of about $200/week.), and the chance to fulfill your DREAM.
I wonder if the Englands started out in the snake oil business, because they could sell milk to a cow.....