I Should have listened: (CR ENGLAND!!!!)

Let's just say I am taking my CDL and I am out of here.

Fast Forward to today - road test day. I failed at my first try. I was downshifting and I was looking at the RPM's too much for my instructor's liking. So he decided to scream at the top of his lungs not to look too much at the RPM's and look at the road more instead.

Then he screams to make sure my RPM's are at 1100 before shifting.

Then he screams at me again for looking down at the RPM's.

He then (and this is a so-called professional instructor that is CERTIFIED by the state of Utah) lurches over from the passenger seat and covers my dashboard with his clipboard. Now I can't see how fast I am going or my RPM's - and it made it extremely difficult to shift while this guy's body was lying over the gear shift!!!!

Now, correct me if I am wrong, but I didn't think an instructor was supposed to do this kind of stuff to a student while he is DRIVING during the actual ROAD TEST. Is this in CR England's safety manual??? What's wrong with this man? Is he a drunk? Seriously!

His name was Andy. I don't know his last name. I never really cared to know it.

I do wonder if Utah is aware of his ways and I wonder how many other students he has done this to. I am thinking of filing a report, but I doubt it would do any good. This guy has NO BUSINESS being certified as an instructor and as someone who should stand in judgement of who is capable and who is not capable of holding a CDL. He obviously lets his own impatience get the best of him and is way to angry to be an instructor. To literally throw himself in front of my dashboard and physically block my ability to shift is simply out of line.

Especially while I am trying to pass a test!

The school itself... the room I had did not have a working heater. It smelled like dirty socks in a locker room.

The food in the restauraunt was OK, I'll give them that.

Sometimes I wonder if I did make the right decision. I drove a cab for 14 years and I left it to do this. I was making $150 a night after taxes and expenses. I worked 4 nights a week - took home 600. If I needed more money, I was always welcome to work any or all of my 3 nights off. Weeks where I worked 6 nights, I took home 900. 7 nights over 1,000.

And I was HOME every day.

I called my old boss and he told me to come down on Monday and he would take me back. I am seriously considering it.

I have my CDL if I ever want to persue something on those lines, but for now, thanks to CR England, my desire to become a trucker has diminished significantly. Yes, I can try another company. I got my CDL, but I am not sticking around here.

One of my roomates was here for 5 days while he waited for his truck to get fixed. No pay, but free bunking. Gee, how generous of CR England.

There was that one other poster - I forgot his name, but I did put him on ignore because of his arrogance. But I will admit ONE thing. He was RIGHT about CR England. (He wasn't right about me. I am not going to hire out of choice. I got my license and I am outta here - by choice).

I will let you all know if someday I do decide to go into the trucking business, but for now, truthfully, I think there is much more fun and interesting things that happen in the taxi business. And for me, anyway, the money is much better than England's 26 cents a mile. I put 200 miles on the car in one night and I go home with 150 bucks. That's 75 cents a mile and a lot less headaches. And I get to go home when my shift ends.

Not to mention no pain in the ### logs to fill out and DOT scumbags looking to fine me any chance they get.

It's just too much hassle. I apologise to all who were rooting for me. Again, thank CR England for putting the fire out.

Also, it's nice the way they sent so many of my classmates home because they didnt learn fast enough. One guy who was having trouble downshifting was put on another truck. The guy says to him "You have 20 minutes to figure this out or you're going home!"

20 minutes!

Needless to say, he didn't learn it in 20 minutes and the next day, he was gone. We called him "Alabama" because that's where he was from. He almost had tears in his eyes as he was packing up his things. A dream of becoming a trucker shattered by a bunch of pompous, impatient a-holes from CR England. My heart broke for him.

If anyone is looking to get their CDL from a trucking school.... PLEASE listen to me...

ANYWHERE BUT CR ENGLAND.

Matter of fact, I am still there now... I am sitting at my laptop in the corner right by the metal detector and laundry room. I am leaving tomorrow afternoon to catch a red-eye back to NY. I am also thinking of putting up an anti-CR England website - with ALL the anti-CR England tidbits I can find from all over the internet and place them all into one page for easy reference. I can make it so it will show up in search engines when would-be students go to do some more research.

I will do anything in my power to get as many would-be students to change their minds about this company. And trust me. I am very knowledgable with internet stuff. I know how to get the message across. I know how to get sites to show up on search engines like Google. When people do research on CR England, I will have my site show up for them with links to ALL negative things.

Granted, I won't be able to take down the 750 million dollar a year trucking company, but I sure can and will put a dent in their student enrollments. Trust me on that.

Behold the power of the internet.

RollingThunder