Starting school at CR England at the end of this month....

May God bless you during this time of tribulation.

1. If you read a lot of posts then why are you going to CRE???????
2. OTR trucking is not for a father of 4 children. You will miss everything.

 

I wouldn't do it, at all. I too, almost went to england to get my cdl but reading through the MANY threads about england, i quickly changed my mind. I myself have a family and went to comm. college to get my CDL ( have a read here on pros vs cons of Comm Col. vs Company training). If you do decide on company training for your CDL there is better starter companies than england. Spend time looking through this forum and ask questions, guys like Chinatown and others has loads of good advice for new drivers. I'm new myself so i cant offer much advice but with 4 kids just make sure everyone can handle you being gone. Good luck!

 

What school were you thinking about attending? CA, UT, TX, IN?

 

Where do you live???

 

4 children will require quite amount of money to support, you will be frustrated and angry to find out how much you will actually be making...not much your first year. But stick through it the first year and oppurtunities will open up. I praise you for wanting a better life for your children however. Just keep your head help up high. I'm not a experienced driver but I have family and they all say the first year is the hardest.

 

Don't do it! It's not too late to back out. If they ask you why tell them because of all the horror stories on the internet. There are much better companies to go with if you wanting company sponsored training.

 

The only problem is during training with CRE you will only make enough to pay for your food and cell phone. I was a phase 1 trainer there for roughly 4 years and most of my students only cleared $200-$300 a week if that. Even if everything goes perfect with the CRE training it will be a minimum of 3 months before you take home a descent paycheck and again that is if everything goes perfect!

I had a lot of students who were already 3-4 months late on their rent and basically what they were doing was to little to late.