Fraud, Thieves, and Deceitful- CR England

A little more info:
I work 5 1/2 days/week - typical for local LTL jobs and put in between 45-55 hrs - actual hours, not "log" hours.
This, as far as I can tell is nothing special: the Milk or Coke or Potato Chip guys I meet on the job are doing better than me - although they do more actual work. The CRE/WalMart gig is pretty easy.

 

England has their share of old timers. I think any company will treat you pretty well if you stick with them

 

So you have a sleeper and are on their dedicated walmart... So what do they guys with the CRE daycabs do?

 

There are only 4 day cabs where I work out of about 180 trucks. They are for certain stores that are hard to get to with a longer rig.

 

Ok So first you were home every night now its you cant always make it home every night... I agree with the other guy sounds like your an OTR Walmart dedicated CRE driver... So your pay might be $1000 a week before taxes and if you get your big bonus every week maybe more? I'm guessing the bonus is a fuel bonus which shouldn't be hard to get driving 60mph...

So at .36 a mile times 2000 miles =720 say 4 stops a day times 15= 60 times a 5 day work week=300 so there's your 1020 a week?

And we all do the darn same job as a Walmart driver... We drive, bump docks, drop, hook, its all the same man doesn't matter who you drive for...We all have the magical "in"....LOL

My original post was a joke but it seems that every day there's a new thread on here from a student driver that was at CRE and was lied to by the recruiter or treated wrong is some way... Kind of feel bad for some of these guys... Its not only CRE but all the other puppy mill companies do the same thing, they tell you what you wanna hear to get you to sign that contract then after its signed its a whole another story...The Mill keeps producing...

 

The day cabs are for the people who sleep at home every night... What Walmart stores are hard to get into with a sleeper? I haven't seen any....

 

He meant hard to get to for the caliber of driver that is willing to work for C.R. England.

Yes,,,just one. What is the secret to lasting 2 years with, quite possibly/arguably the worst company out there? Lots of Preperation H?

 

Sounds like a pretty typical and fare statement.

From your first post it sounded like you were trying to defend them.

Ya, you were trying to defend them, this just confirms it.

Look I worked for them down in Fontana for awhile. They're a training company that puts out about a 100 drivers a week in Fontana alone. The Walmart local was acquired from Schneider about 2 years ago. Most of the drivers were a bunch of new drivers like your self, didn't have any scheduled time off but were on call all the time. They usually had enough time off to catch a 34 hour restart but could be called any time.

I seen a few old timers they're some content allot of them bad mouthing the company ready to quit. To just go on and think they're a fine and dandy company and they wont hesitate to turn you around and #### you is just ignorance.

They're more of a school if anything ,they're really out of touch with the driver. That's why I'm saying the OP's original statement is pretty fare.
They used to put out about a hundred trainees a week in Fontana alone for around $3,000 per student loan do the math that's about $300,000 thousands a week in Fontana alone that's not including the rest of the schools they have around the company. Each month they reap millions ioff student loans.

From there they reap the benefit to ride the schooly in a trainer truck as a team for chicken feed for the next six months. Wen they're done they'll try and lease a truck to them and screw him through that deal.
They don't care about the driver, in fact the higher the turn over rate the more they benefit off it cause they can put out more student's and reap more student loan fees.

They don't want real drivers as allot of these companies would rather have a bunch of newbie ### drivers who are willing to take the bull #### to just get they're foot in the door.

They're pretty much reaping millions of dollars each week off loans every month. How do you think they get that high of a turn over rate, a bunch of happy drivers. Come on now, be real.

Let's not ignorant, they have a few satisfied drivers as every company will, but don't think for a minute they wont turn around and #### you.

Basically them and companies alike have become more of a school's if anything, freight being secondary to the real mission. The freight and the account's just keeps the schools going so they can reap the benefits of schooling profits perk and schooling benefits.. They don't really make allot off each load, but off shipping volumes and they're schooling profits. How do you think they and others like them can afford to underbid everyone.

That's basically how the industry got all screwed up. These big training companies as such.

 

Can the drivers pick their own trks in the lease program.Are those trks governed?Can you refuse loads?Are you more or less a co driver even though you're in their lease program?

 

So basically everything you failed to do?