CRE: My phase 1/phase 2 driving experience

at least if your sitting at home eating crackers and water to survive, you'll be next to your own bathroom and shower, and your own piece of mind. just chalk it up as a learning experience and know your not going to waste your time in this lost career.

 

Feller,I don't know you,but I feel your pain.I had no where near the experience you have had.I had anxiety,panic attacks,and wonder why in the hell I made this move.
Im gonna give you this advice.
People will tell you your not cut out for trucking.With new guys, trucking isnt "always" the problem.The problem lies with the company,and the company using new guys up like tampoons.
DO NOT!!LET ANYONE TREAT YOU LIKE THAT!.People that do things like that to new guys need to be taken out and curb stomped. You do the best you can,and hold your head up high.Youve got nothing to be ashamed of.This is a nasty cut throat profession,and Im still looking for someone that will give me,as much as Im willing to give them as an employee.
Theyre out there,you just have to wade through the parasites to get there.
GOD Bless you,and I hope you find a place that treats you with respect,and dignity

 

Lots of drivers have been treated like carp as a trainee, thats nothing new. But if you really want to do the job you find a way to do it.

A friend of mine drove a little under 2 years and came to the realization that it was not for him and is schooling to be a CPA now. There is no shame in admitting you are not cut out to be a OTR driver.

I can however tell you that training is better now then when I started. My first company i was expected to drive team right out of school 6500 to 7500 miles a week in a 58mph cabover truck with 1 bunk. It was sink or swim and many who sank got left on a off ramp or a truck stop. And no Internet to check on company's and if they where good or bad

The training company's practically hold your hand and give you hugs and kisses compared to how they used to view trainees. Which was a second log book and easy money and nothing more. if you made it you got a lemon to seat and spend the next month getting fixed. if you didn't you where luck to get a greydog ride home.

 

....apparently too many people get sucked into the "company paid training" system. Otherwise, a simple calculator would point out to anyone wishing to enter this career that .11 per mile means that you would have to drive 1,000 miles to earn a meager $110!!!!!

There are simply not enough hours in the day (or the week for that matter) for ANYONE to be able to make a living wage at .11 per mile. I've never even seen or heard of such a ridiculous amount. As a brand new rookie recruit fresh out of an independent private truck school I started at .38cpm and received cpm raises every year after until I went local.

Folks need to do some research and homework before they make the leap.

 

Well it is obvious that if you are doing the company sponsored training. Research and homework are not your forte.

 

I love your name Wernerchallenged; how did you come to pick that handle?

 

Just to clarify ... the $.11 is all miles the truck runs. I went Phase 2 with my son and then stayed on after upgrade. We averaged 6000 miles a week. So I was getting about $660 a week. Not great. But that was more than I got from unemployment.

After upgrade I got my company driver pay raises. When we left I was getting $.14 plus a $.03 mile monthly bonus if we exceeded 16000 mile a month.

 

HMMM.................

Higher mathematics hurts my head but I'll try it......

$.11CPM

then he gets up to up to $.14 then add that $.03 "bonus?" to it IF they exceed that mandated and company controlled if they "have the money in the bank!" 16000 miles in a month!

Yeah we all know how that works!

So the total is what?

A whole $.17cpm????



I NEVER made that pathetic amount in 32 years of driving and that's from walking into my first driving job straight out of the Army after a few months of playing beach bum learning how to pick out clothes other than OD green and lazing around for a few months doing BS odd jobs!

$.17 cents a mile?

PLEASE! Pick my silly old arse up off the floor because I just laughed my arse off!

My first driving job I was paid $.18 cents a a mile and that was in 1975! We're talking when gas was .40 cents a gallon and diesel was .20! Cigrettes were $.35 a pack and the working girls were...well that's a different story but they were affordable at $.18 CPM!

Now that is a stand up company you're working for!

I wouldn't piss on the truck if it or the owner was on fire for that piddling sum of bird feed!

That's a crime and to say it's "team" pay is still a crime! They couldn't get me in the truck with another human being even if SHE made Kim Catrell look ugly and she preferred to ride nude and holding a gun and a knife to my head for that! And that's a split? ROFLMAO!

How do the owners of these pathetic trucking companies sleep at night screwing even trainees and rookies like this!

What a freaking shame!

If the King of England were to rise up out of the grave he'd be slapping the crapola out of those worthless children of his! He'd park his old white FL on their sorry arses and piss on their heads! That honest old guy is rolling all over in that grave! No wonder there are so many earthquakes in the region!

 

Good thing I did more research on this company. I ALMOST went with CRE. I'm going to Rhoel.

 

I agree with most replies here. I just got done with CRE had a real negative experience, yet they helped me to acheive one thing in a short amount of time I got my CDL in less time it would of taken at a 4-5 week school got it in 2 and a half weeks. So I'm off to another company that seems to be a better fit for me. after talking to a couple of their drivers it might work for me and for them I hope so. I'm not a team driver at all I can't sleep in a moving vehicle especially when it's on 40 east going through OKC or 15 north or south in Cali.
The biggest problem with CR is that they have no true qualified trainers. A phase 2 trainer takes a one day class and that is so they can get the miles off of the so called student. It's a shame I don't think that the father had this in mind when he first got the company running. The sons seem to have gotten to company moving in a problematic direction for the purpose of greed. What else is new. Keep trying to find the right company to fit in and hope you are right for them. It is attitude when it comes down to it. CRE and I are just not meant for each other plain and simple.