C.R. England and Sons, Inc. - West Valley, Ut.

WOW... this brings back some memories... I too. went to CRE.. when no one else would take me.. ran company truck-team, got about 1800 miles per week at .11cpm (my split) and we decided to quit.. Dropped the empty truck/trailer at a terminal and dispatcher said I'll put abandonment under a load on your DAC.. I said ok.. you do what you have to do I said you have been starving us for weeks and we see home every 4 months, not worth it anymore. He said you will never work again.. I said.. ok.. whatever.. few weeks later I was driving again.. and they (the new company) asked what happened.. and said well we know the reputation that CRE has.. np.... So... just cause they tell you that... if the company that you are applying with knows their reputation will give you that chance.. If they don't .. they weren't worth working for anyway...

Good luck @ May Trucking..

CA

 

This is not the only thread about CRE, but google and read the stuff about the constant rip -offs, and abandonment of drivers, leaving them stranded after working for over a year with no accidents, tickets, etc. This company needs to go down HARD!!! It almost scares me out of my plans to become a trucker.

 

Man I was getting worried. We hadn't had a good C R England rip off story on here in almost a whole week. That has got to be close to a record.

 

If you're really interested in a company, and are worried about some CRE shenanigans they may be pulling on your work history, just refer your potential new employer to this site and the site at 'ripoffreport dot com'. The threads here should establish in anyone's mind the good reasons why any driver would have trouble at good ol' CRE.

 

Don't let CRE scare ya of being a trucker.... just don't go to CRE.... plain & simple... You have to want to be a driver.. it's just not a job.. it's a lifestyle change.... Either you will let nothing stop in your way of becoming one and you're going to enjoy it.. or you're going to wish you NEVER started this endeavor...

Not every company is going to be peaches and cream starting out.. you have to pay your "dues".. you have to get the experience under your "belt" to really make it out there... then you can go anywhere.. provided you have no tickets/accidents/failed drug tests, etc.

Good luck to you if that's what you decide to do!

CA!!

 

i got one little tidbit to add about my working at CRE After i left, i returned the truck to the CRE yard in Salt Lake, and then told my DM (who is a great guy, btw). I ran my credit report and take a guess who says i owe them $77,000 after leasing the truck for a full year? i aint really about the report, i dont live by credit, but this is what i was talking about their management...........but i will say i did make money there, and thats ALL i was trying to get across too bad i cant bring my DM with me to a new place......but such is life, because now i will have to prove my self at a new company, new dispatcher, new everything i particularly like the leasing over the company driver status, but it aint comparable, they both have different goals and methods of approach

 

Raafi, sounds like you'll be calling a bankruptcy lawyer soon. That 77K isn't going to go away. You should go ahead and get it released by a bankruptcy court. You'll be paying on that for 30 years if you don't.

 

I am a recent graduate from a private CDL school (not CR England) and they were sort of pushing to try and work 4 them (my classroom instructor told us about CR England (behind the school's back) and said that they will rip u off BIG TIME in their lease purchase and that the 6 month demo was a trick, meaning when u sign up they give u crappy loads no miles and u will be so far in dept u will never get out. Can u believe this? meanwhile the higher ups at my school were all saying what a great company CR was and that they highly recommended them along with Werner Enterprises (another Joke outfit) thank god that I listened to my classroom instructor after hearing all the bad things about these companies and glad I diid the right thing by NOT running with ethier 1 ! LOL BY THE WAY I forgot 2 mention that a CR England driver pulled into our school's training lot and told us even more crap about CR England) He told us that he was an experienced driver but did not drive a truck for I think he said like 15 or 20 years somewhere around there anyway I believed him cuz the guy was OLD like 70 or something he told us that he was stuck with a trainer 4 9 1/2 weeks even though they told him he could start right away with very minimal training since he had experience!! oh wow what a up place glad I stayed away from them!!!!

 

A lot of the training mills are 'corporations', meaning certain trucking companies could control large stakes in them. If I'm a company and I have a stake in a trucking school, you better believe I'm gonna 'force' the school to paint a pretty picture of my company. I would also make sure lots of people go through my (expensive) school, and if that means canning the experienced vets at my company to make room for the new graduates, then so be it. I could just treat my vets poorly and they'd quit. Hell, I wouldn't even have to pay their unemployment if they quit voluntarily. Sounds like a great idea. Maybe I can get it patented.

Oh wait...bigger companies already do this.

 

Hey Tip; Or is is mr.England??? LMAO