seeking experience based information

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by DrivenCuriosity, Oct 6, 2016.

  1. DrivenCuriosity

    DrivenCuriosity Bobtail Member

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    Hello, it has been a couple of weeks since I have posted. I started looking into driving a truck, did a little research, asked a few questions here, and finally contacted several companies. I have an orientation day set with Maverick for October, 19. However, C.R. England contacted me after zero contact since early August, and offered me a orientation date for October 17. Can anyone offer me their experience actually driving for either of these companies.

    -Robert
     
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  3. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    Did KLLM offer you a job.?
    @w.h.o. will hopefully see your thread and answer your questions about Maverick.
     
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  4. ExOTR

    ExOTR Windshield Chipper Extraordinaire

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    Maverick will pay you more, has better training, and flatbed experience will open more doors for you in the future. I've never worked for either, but I've heard a lot of CRE drivers complain. Supposedly even the hotel experience at orientation is horrible.
     
  5. ExOTR

    ExOTR Windshield Chipper Extraordinaire

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    Maverick is also home weekly correct?
     
  6. MidWest_MacDaddy

    MidWest_MacDaddy Road Train Member

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    Never worked at either but I am under the same impression as @ExOTR ... pretty sure there are several better options than CRE.
     
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  7. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Yes, almost every weekened
     
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  8. ladr

    ladr Road Train Member

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    Only complaint I've ever heard from a Maverick guy was slow trucks. I know they haul a lot of glass, have a flatbed and seemingly vans now.
     
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  9. w.h.o

    w.h.o Road Train Member

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    So you're choice is cr england or maverick? Not really a hard choice....c.r england does not have the best review.. I would go with maverick. Better equipment, better people and you get to pull flatbed! Unless you want to do reefer which maverick also do
     
  10. Spyke

    Spyke Light Load Member

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    Hey. I hope you find sonething that works for you. I too am looking for work again, after a "bad fit".

    Still, even as the ink dries on my cdl, I know better than to work for CR england. Their training yard was next to my real school. The poor guys there watched us struggling to back a truck as their backing class. Half the time they were there, watching us through the fencr, sad eyes like the refugee kids sally struthers used to shed tears about in the 80s.
    That company is like when that girl in south carolina got told not to hang out with the boys on the wrong side of the tracks, and she did anyway, and got set on fire and fed to alligators. Or something. Dont get fed to alligators. Listen to your brother truckers, who care about you. Say no to getting set on fire. Say no to
    C.R. England
     
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  11. TROOPER to TRUCKER

    TROOPER to TRUCKER Anything Is Possible

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