cre my 2 cents

Exactly my point Eddie if they have a large number of failures in their lease program a company that knows they are the first taste of trucking for these would not and should not lease to new drivers. And before you go and say they are not being forced to lease and they should know what they are getting into. You do not take advantage of people just because they are naive. It is about money even if the lease was a fair deal to which I am not saying it is or not at CRE. Cause with every new hire that leases with CRE look at what that company saves in benefits? So yes friend they would push the lease deal off on a blind man if they could. I am a lease op at a company and we take students but you have to have 90 days teaming with an experienced driver than you go solo company than after 1 yr you can lease

 

True, you make a good point, but if you're gonna tackle my response with saying the lease completion numbers need to be looked at to properly qualify my statement, you would have to also look at why the lease was terminated. Im sure some of them were because of the "typical" reasons that plague this site and so many others like it but out of those "numbers", how many were because of other reasons like, the driver's health caused them to lose their cdl or, too many log violations dequaliufied the driver or, driver lost intrest in driving period or went to another company that paid more once they had enough experience?

 

oh yeah i would love for her to do it we have all those same ideas making it homey sightseeing she just doesnt wanna drive lol.... and i thought i would have somewhere to go after the military two deployments six years in two degrees and havent even gotten a single interview. i have always had this as my back up plan and i have deeply researched the industry for just over a year so now is my time to make a decision my unemployment is almost over and over 200 job applications later i have gotten nowhere but really good at xbox and knowledgeable in all the movies on tv. tired of wasting away. which is why i finally decided to come on this forum and start getting some good current informatable decisions. thank you very much for your advice and maybe sometime soon i will see you on the road. thanks to all for the advice it helped me greatly in my decision making process. i have made uncountable pro's and con's lists

 

You know at first i thought you were gonna start CRE bashing like a lot here. im sorrty for that lol you do make a good point, i do believe companies should make a new truck driving wait some time and gain experience before leasing, and that does also go with training too. i know right out of phase 2 i can be a trainer. which may not be the best idea. although i feel like it could benefit someone like me. i may be upping my self but i know if i felt good enough to train or lease i would do it successfully and wouldnt feel/ and the timeline someone gave me isnt gonna affect that i would be the only one that could affect my confidence level that made me decide to do that. i hope that wasnt confusing lol i been all over the place today

 

I dont know what they're doin now but when we started, they didnt push the lease on us. We drove company for the first 6 months. At first I had my doubts about leasing, not with England, just leasing in general. Ive never even felt comfortable about leasing a car rather than financing one.

Of course, we kinda didnt have an option when we decided to lease, mainly because it was either wait upwards of two weeks for a new truck or lease. The truck we had was at the end of it's lease and needed to go back. But at the time, not only were they making teams mandatory, they were only carrying a maximum of 250 company trucks so the latest order of new trucks that was made got cancelled and instead of waiting around with our thumbs up our backsides waiting on them to get us a new truck somehow, we figured at that point that leasing cant be that bad so thats what we did so we could get back out on the road.

 

You are right Eddie there can be and are alot of reasons drivers terminate their lease and I would say that i am sure alot fall on the drivers either not being prepared for this industry or whatever. That is the reason I made the point of it being wise for drivers to wait at least 6 mos to a year. I am sure there are drvrs that pickup things fast and are ready alot sooner than others so please don't want guys and gals who went straight into leasing to jump on me. i am speaking about the majority and no I do not have numbers in front of me. Just my opinion not bashing CRE they are in business to make money and alot of companies have figured out instead of having having alot of company trks with turnover might as well do a bigger lease program that way there were no benefits being paid to or for a driver event if it was a short term

 

I was thinking about using my gi bill but it would take some time to go throguh the process of getting it approved, and i actually did do a wia program i went to welding school through wia but that took a total of months and made me no more employable than i already was