CR England

You have to pay $37.00 a day to the student why? The whole thing is insanity. You assume all the risks and they reap all the $$$. Are you "encouraged" to promote leasing?

My first go around I the trucking world back in 1994, I started with CRE. At the time they only had company drivers and the one yard in SLC. The housing consisted of construction trailers with rows of bunks and a shower room / bathroom at one end. They provided meal tickets as part of your training costs, redeemable at the Red Rig cafe, which was another trailer. I had recently came out the Army, so none of it was too shocking to me, but looking back it was a pretty crappy set up for your future employees. I was paid a flat rate of $300 training pay while with the trainer, when I was done and went solo I started at .21cpm. They treated us decently and I thought that the training was good.


My how the times have changed.

 

Great post , My girlfriend is working for them right now she left on June 23rd for Gary IN got her CDL A on July 24th and went into phase 1 on the 26th . I try and tell her about these post but they have her brain washed . She has been gone from home now for 53 days an I don't see her coming home anytime soon ( we live in Maine on NH border ) . They told her when phase 1 is done she can come back to Gary IN an they will send her home on a bus so she can change her lic back here and they will pick her up here in Maine for Phase 2 . I just hope our relationship can take 9 months of there lies I'm a local driver for another year and we plain on teaming up once she finishes with them .

 

The point you made about leasing their trucks was the same thing I've heard from several other truckers I've met. If you lease a truck with CRE, expect to file for bankruptcy.

 

wow, great post! thanks for laying it out plainly. oftentimes people complain about companies without explaining the pertinent details about why a company sucks. I will never work for CRE!

 

Dang... Earlier this year before I decided to get my CDL on my own accord through a smaller school, I planned on going with CR England. I'm glad I didn't because I don't want to lease a truck or deal with all the stress you speak of. I recently got accepted (barely turned 25 y/o in October) for a local flatbed job delivering and picking up big steel bars for construction and aerospace. They're going to train me for a few weeks before they let me go on my own, so I hope to learn and practice as much as possible before then. I'm glad I decided to be patient instead of signing up with CR England or somewhere similar...

 

Do you know how many drivers, many of them with millions of safe miles started like that? If you are a trainer with experience you can tell in 1 driving shift how much supervision they need. I have had some students who where fine from day 2 running team and some who had to be watched close for a couple of weeks.
There are lots of experienced drivers who drive worse then most of the trainees i have had. They have a 4 wheeler mindset yet they drive a truck. Always excessively speeding, piss poor lane control, weaving in and out of traffic, racing from t/s to t/s. They are as dangerous as any new driver.

 

They were paying you in 94 what they paid in 90 when i started. Thats why i went to KLLM and not CRE. They paid a penny more a mile. Times may change, but OTR pay has dropped 18% and avg miles 1200 to 2000 a month. Yet these companies whine about a driver shortage.

 

Sounds like the CEO and board of directors at c r England ought to be kicked out. I witness more stupidity from their drivers than any other company, they are even worse than the idiots at western express from what I've seen.

 

"As a Phase 1 Trainer (i.e., Senior Trainer)"

Wow. Not a dig at you, but England considers you a "Senior Trainer" with just one year of driving experience? What a company.