9 weeks for free with C R E ! don't do it!

Only 2 good things could happen to this compant. They could go outta business or get a unionize!

 

Well I can say I successfully finished Orientation. Still waiting to here if I'm hired on or not. But seriously. This was a joke. There were multiple people who took the FMCSR Test over 5 times and they still kept them, and the know it all 21yr olds. They even took a guy that has NEVER EVER been on a live road, in a combo vehicle. He says his school was licensed out of NY to issue CDL's and he got one by doing some manuervers on the range. OMFG, NO WAY... Also they are pushing the lease, hard. Every other sentence is Lease, Lease, Lease. The Horizon people came in and bluntly said you will starve on the company side, and come enjoy a nice lease where you can make, get this $6000.00 per month after fixed and variable costs. Do they think we are that ignorant? Anyways, the company so far seems decent, if you run, and don't refuse you supposedly can make ok money. I'm only here for the experience, I'm not planning on staying as a career. *Keyword is NOT. I will keep everyone informed, but so far so good. I'm not falling for the deception that the brand new cdlers are falling for. I'm very skeptical about all of it. Anyways, figured I would let people know, that I did pass orientation, tomorrow is road eval, and PTI Tests.... Great, The TX PTI test for my CDL was on a computer, I can't wait to try to do a full PTI without instruction...

 

$6000 A month?? Hahahaha! Thats definitely the most absurd comment I have seen come out of england yet.

 

Dang my truck is paid for and I don't clear 6k a month some months

They must be nuts or promising 4k mikes a week and other pay

Crazy

 

Good luck with CRE. I don't know from experience, but what I've heard is that they tend to "starve" people out who don't take them up on their lease/fleece program.

I'd suggest having a plan B up your sleeve just in case. Hopefully you won't need it and will do ok and be kept running.

Keep us posted flyingswine!

 

Read the small print before signing.

Lease program overiew:

NEW & IMPROVED PAYMENTS - from $480 - $600 per week lease payments
14 cents variable mileage payment (1 cent paid back as truck financing fund.)
$10,000 Maintenance Reserve (7 cents a mile capped at $10,000)
Priority Dispatch
Many dedicated runs available

No Money Down Lease! Additional fees and expenditures include or may include fuel tax, quarterly and annual business tax reserves, truck investment fund and any other elective deductions.

1800 to 3000 Miles per week depending on Dedicated or OTR
.90 to 1.50 CPM depending on Dedicated or OTR

Maintenance cost per mile: General and maintenance reserve contributions start at $.07 per mile. These are dollars that can be used to ensure timely repairs, limit downtime, and can serve as a source of funds for your eventual truck purchase!

CREngland can terminate contract at any time with or withourt notice.
Licenses, permits, and FHUT are only $44.54 per week!

If it looks like Duck , Walks like a Duck and Honks Like a Duck, It's Probably a Duck!

 

They will say during orientation, "You may have heard alot of talk about lease purchases, we're not here to push it." And, "The people that complain and talk bad are the ones that are late, set of sensors on the truck and get into accidents and get fired." Let's face it, you can tell people DON'T DO IT all you want, but once they finish orientation they are desperate and will go ahead and do it anyways, then later regret that they did it. Of course, they don't make it back to CREngland to tell others, so no one has a way of knowing.

Don't lease a truck, don't drive for CREngland, in my opinion, I always though the CR was short for CRooked England. Don't forget, you will also be goverened to 63 MPH I think it is, a 9 speed transmission, RPM limited to 1,750 RPM, horse power disabled, progressive shifting enabled. Don't expect to go any where fast, 9 speeds are an absolute joke. I drove a Century with a Detroit and a 9 speed, with an empty trailer getting up the on ramp you were in 7th gear not going anywhere because your RPM's are maxed at 1,750, and when you shift into 8th your not going any where. Older leases, you could go 70 MPH and a premier lease 75 MPH, doesn't matter everyone is at 63 MPH so you do LESS miles because you can't go as fast and get paid the same.

I don't know what 10 speed it was I just know both trucks had 3.73 axle ratios, but I've driven a couple different ones with the same axle ratio, and 9th gear can go up to 68 MPH in some with an older 2002 C15, while others 9th gear goes to 50 MPH and then you have to shift into 10th gear with a 2006 Series 60. Anyways, it sure did pull good. They really like to gear the newer motors with a lower RPM.

Don't forget, when your BROKE down in the shop, you don't get paid and the clock is ticking still. Don't forget tow bills and road service too! Or, if you have a 4 day wait and then need a major repair, you could be down for 1-2 weeks or longer. PLUS, you can't sleep in the truck, you have to pay for a motel room. Where will you eat in that motel? It's very easy to go broke.

What happens if you get a bad truck with poor MPG's? You will not make any money or be in the hole. There comes a point where you drive for free and either you make paychecks that are negative(in the red) for weeks, or break even or make a small paycheck, $50.00 or $200.00 but you lose all that when you pay for food, showers and other expenses. Your making nothing. You wont be able to pay your mortgage, feed your family, your credit will be ruined, your DAC ruined.

If you get in an at fault accident or are late, or do something they don't like, they can terminate your lease. Any equity in the truck is gone, it shows up on your DAC as fired so you may not be able to get a job else where, you get a REPO on your credit I believe.

DON'T FORGET, when you turn the truck in you will get billed for tires if they are not 50% or better, any scratches, any wear inside or outside the truck they will charge you for it.

Don't do it. You will go broke.

 

"The people that complain and talk bad are the ones that are late, set of sensors on the truck and get into accidents and get fired"

Didn't get fired, no safety alerts, never late... and still only netted 18 cpm (for a TEAM)... that's BOTH of us together... and they took ALL of the $5500 that I had in my maintenance account, after only 6 months of babied use.

 

Hate to say it, but that sounds like most lease programs to me. Granted I don't know much. Interesting read, keep on posting.

 

I guess desperation is the reason why people keep on doing the flease thing.