Why I left C.R.England

Well, jeez you are just rude. So many folks on this board have a failure mentality and just don't believe they can succeed.

I have to put in about 55 hrs/week to earn that. It is not such a high wage. The drivers I meet at the Wal Marts who deliver the milk or the chips/ snacks do a bit better than that and don't have to put in as many hours.

 

Wal-Mart & CR England in cahoots together

 

now i know why they turned me down (ROFLMAO) i have to much exp.

btw lease drivers drivers SHOULD read before they sign but some people just arn't that smart

 

First, thanks to Lucky6. Great thread, great insight.

Sadly, it's not limited to L/Os, since all the megas have trucks they recover from company drivers. Gordon has trucks like this literally all over the place. In one instance I came in on a weekend at Gordon's insistence while my truck was over at Cummins.

Saturday evening the weekend DM wanted me to wait for a truck still a "couple hours out" that he said would be my truck thereafter. I wasn't in the market for another truck, but, okay, fine. I went to do laundry while the DM went home. On getting back from laundry, I saw a truck that might be the truck, opened it up and it was rank. Stinky of cigarette smoke and throughly trashed. I'm a rigid non-smoker.

Screw this, I thought, and drove home about 50 miles away. After all, I had arrived at the yard from home before the DM arrived that morning and he had now left for home a couple hours ago.

Sunday morning the DM had a temper tantrum that I had left. I went out and began cleaning this truck up to make it drive-able for me. The stuff left inside seemed odd, a case of bottled water and stuff that you'd run with. Sunday afternoon, I asked the shop if there was a sleeping bag around, since all my stuff was locked up in my truck over the weekend at Cummins.

As a matter of fact, he said, there was and led me over to a dumpster where I found a new, XXL Carhartt jean jacket, clothes, blankets, pillows, sleeping bag, etc. I didn't put 2 and 2 together yet, gathered up the jacket and the stuff I could use. Went home again, got the blankets and all washed.

On Monday, gave the jacket to my regular DM (not the same one). It took a while for me to realize that the dumpster stuff came out of the same truck and that Gordon took this truck from someone unaware... no one voluntarily leaves a brand new Carhartt jacket in a truck to be taken.

Once I did put 2 and 2 together, I did wonder just what whoever grabbed that truck took out for his/her own purposes. Gordon's Drivers Manual states that if your truck sits for 48-hours, it's subject to recovery by Gordon. Fortunately my truck came out of the shop on Monday. I left that bad karma truck and retrieved mine from Cummins.

For every new driver coming out of orientation and assigned a truck, there is a story of another driver--in some cases, whose gear got taken, or just left in the truck, or thrown in the dumpster.

 

How much can a guy make out of school with this company

 

Victor V,

Just like you said the other day. Lol

 

Enough to eat ramen for dinner.

 

Any booze found in a recovered truck should be thrown out. As for the drugs, it might be a good idea to call local police to confiscate it. That way there would be a police report on it. They would test it to see what it is. Also there might be more of it hidden somewhere else on the truck. At least they might investigate the former driver who was assigned the truck. He would of course deny knowledge of it, but at least he would be looked at.

 

Does the ramen noodle wages ever increase after some seat time?

 

After you lease one of their trucks, I've heard you can survive on that.