BEWARE of CR England!

CR England is a very disorganized company. My son-in-law (21) applied for the CDL school that CR England offered...(Free Tuition,) was told by a recruiter to pick up a bus to Salt Lake City. The address he was given was the wrong one, so by the time he got to the right place the bus had left. The recruiter never returned his messages, being it was Sunday! So, the next day, he talks with the recruiter, who tells him the scholarship offer is still available, and that he can take the next greyhoud bus which leaves on the weekend, (also a Sunday.) He gets to the bus station, and they tell him his ticket had expired the day before. So without hesitation, he purchases a ticket for $90.00 in order to report to class at 6 A.M. (Again, no recruiter returned his calls.) 13 hours later...my son-in-law arrives at the Salt Lake City bus station, and calls for thier shuttle to CR Englands hub, and there are 20 people sitting around, and no one in charge except a Security guard who knows nothing. After no success in talking with anyone to see what he was supposed to do, he is told to get a hotel. (that CR England would pay for.) He saw people getting into taxi's to go to thier hotels. He did not want to pay the $30.00 taxi cost, so he "walked" to the nearest motel (Hampton Inn)...2 hours away and $60.00 a night!

So frustrated, when he woke up after 3 hours of sleep, he "walked another 25 minutes to the bus station, bought a ticket home for $90.00. Total cost for NOTHING $230.00.

So, for anyone who is considering CR England...don't! If you do, make sure you have the following:
A confirmation from Greyhound that there is a viable bus ticket waiting for you to pick up.
Make sure you have the right bus station.
Make sure there is room at the dorm for you. If not get a comfirmation of the hotel they have for you,and how you will get there.
Don't leave on a weekend, no one will answer your calls!
Be prepared to WAIT.
Take some snacks with you.
Have more than 200.00 in cash. just in case something like this happens to you.
Score for CR England? FAIL.

 

tell him to try c1 trucking school pam will pay for it .if he will drive for them

 

I never drove for England but I have to raise the BS flag on this post. I know drivers that do work with England, so I'm familiar with the company. For starters, England and all other mainstream carriers wouldn't send students right to a hotel. You would be sent off for a drug test and a physical. 2nd, the Salt Lake terminal has a in-house hotel. Why you would walk 2+ miles to a hotel when there's a bed already there is beyond me. 3rd, each terminal has a shuttle bus that runs 24/7 to pick up and drop students from Greyhound. The shuttle driver would know where the students needed to go.

 

Take a closer look.

That just might be a blessing in disguise.
Although $230.00 for nothing seems expensive, and it is, .....
it pales in comparison to what could have been lost.

That's probably good advice. I'm curious though, ....
why did your son-in-law decide to go to C.R. England?
Were y'all unaware of C.R.E.'s less than stellar reputation?
Does your Son-in-law plan to continue seeking Big truck truck driver training?

 

Of all these "stay away from insert mainstream carrier here" threads, why do people still decide to drive for them?

 

Yeah i'd hate to be the bearer of bad news however no matter who you work for out there, there will always be some issues obviously the best thing to do is resolve the issue with the company e.g. i had an issue with my company giving me "hot Loads" so i had 3 choices quit, go in and abuse the hell out of my supervisor or 3. reason with him, i chose the latter by simply asking him how he would feel if some driver was driving over his legal hrs and happened to fly off the road and injure 1 of his family would he think it was ok if the driver just said oh i was just doing a "hot load" for my boss, i never ever got a hot load again plus i still had good re pore with my supervisor.

 

Boy these companies sure must love it when people get hooked into the big con of "free" nothing is free in this big bad world of enterprise.

 

When u arrive at the salt lake terminal they get u a hotel room which the hotel shuttle comes to pick u up or they call a taxi and crengland pays for it that's if they are out of rooms in the in-house hotel 8 man bunkbed rooms then the next morning u drug test and fill out paperwork