(E)very (N)ew (G)raduate (L)eaves (A)fter (N)inety (D)ays: My C.R. England Experience

That post was amazing!

 

:smt023 I agree

 

I was at England in 2001. Salt Lake City was a strange experience for sure. I did not attend their school. We had no metal detectors. But you are correct about the company employees (they listen, but do not hear). They push the lease on you the first day of orientation, and never let up.

The trainers were good, but they seem to always be on a dedicated run. Trainees were not allowed to drive between midnight and 6:00 AM. YOU do RUN as a TEAM with your trainer. There was only one phase of training. You had to complete 25,000 miles. After 4 months it was time to move on.

 

Wow!
What a post I'm so dizzy reading it, It's easier for me to file a flight plan. But I do have to admit JOB WELL DONE, Wish I had your writing skills.
To be honest I'm to lazy to write a book let alone a long paragraph.

 

Wow just wow.

 

New drivers will do a lot of things that with experience they will say to themselves "what was I thinking"? Trying to not make waves and get the time in when you don't know any better is something that some companies such as CR will take advantage of. A fuel leak across four states is a case in point. The hazardous fuel clean-up costs if this had been discovered by DOT and relayed to the EPA would have put CR out of business.
Lessons learned and insight gained. I'm still surprised, however, that you managed to put up with this for 3 months. I'd have to say that a couple of screwings like you got and I'd have been history.

 

Welcome to the "I got screwed ovr by CRE Club. I would imagine that we are at least 10.000 strong. My scenario is similar to yours, except that I did lease. Be glad you didnt. in less that 3 months I was 13,000 dollars in the hole. I worked for nothing for about 10 weeks, (literally nothing) making between 900 to 1200 miles a weekand sitting for days at a time. I was starving figuratively and literally. Other drivers feed me and my phase one drive from Cre (who quit the day I finished training with him) gave me a job on his truck with a different company. That one wasn't good Either. So the "fleece" er lease program (yes forced) gets a lot of people. Even though they give you all the answers to the questions on the tests, if you study anyway you're ok. Good school, BAD company.

 

This little addition to the cre (notice NO capitals because they don't deserve them) story is how they manage to keep operating with impunity.
No matter which party gets in, past present or future, They will keep funding this company because this company helps make jobless states a little more palatable.
If either party cut funding to this pack of wolves, there would be a huge backlash suggesting the Democrats hate jobs. Anybody who thinks romney would listen to
little people and being a mormon, would change this situation in the slightest, is unfortunatly, still in a fuzzy warm dreamland.

So neither political party will do anything to cut funding this band of pirates. They are in an unassailable position and will continue to be no matter how many lawsuits against
them.
On a side note, I do not believe either party can really do a #### thing until they get rid of the Federal Reserve, a privately held bank of profiteers with no personal stake in the U.S.

 

I just want to say that all is true my hubby went to work there and was pushed into owner/op \. He got his truck and iy was a beuty, but as he started out they told him that he would be making enough to pay $500.00 a week for truck and appx another $400.00 a week for himself. All in all he was to make any where from $400.00 to $1000.00 a week because we was an owner/op and was leasing truck from co till paid off in 3 years. Well he did not get even close to that and when he became ill enough to be in hospital for a mo they couldn't have cared at all. After hospital stay he went back to work to try and catch up but after he was there 3 or 4 mos they called him into the yard and fired him saying that his logs were not in order, that we know is a lie because all scales that stopped him said his logs were perfect and the copany he is with now the safty manager says he is keeping great logs. I just think that they wanted to get the truck back and that was a way to do it. Any way I would not tell any new or old driver to go to work for England. And because they fired him he still has to pay $1500.00 for the truck when it was sold to another poor sol;e for the same or close to the same amount thet he was paying for it.

 

six months is better than a year, and from what I'm reading C.R seems to be only slightly less worse than other training companies.

I am, unfortunately, under a 1 year contract for my "uber convenient training!"

If anything, I regret not going with C.R because I'd be almost done (currently at about 5/12 months) chewing through the BS.