Hey but you know CRE I guess could require that if there were 2, you would possibly have to take them as your trainees, I'm not sure though.
My Expierence at CR England
Discussion in 'CR England' started by gt4jk, Feb 20, 2012.
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How do they pay you during the school phase? When and how much? I'm about to go on Monday, but unemployment insurance ran out, and I'm going to be running on very little ready cash, as a result...
I already have my CDL, but I still have to do orientation before being sent out on phase I. -
I sure hope they hurry and get you a trainer; it seems like the network to get the trainee and trainer together is sometimes hard since they usually have to route the truck to the trainee from point A where there is not a lot of empty miles to be paid for.
Good luck on your maiden voyage; just be safe and make sure if nothing else that you go over your routing as to what and where you will be driving. The worst thing is the unexpected such as road closures. If you can save up money to get a GPS that would be great too, I imagine that a lot of the trainers already have one and it makes life a lot easier; just remember that they can get you in trouble too if you are not careful, it will try to get you on the closest road if it has to revamp and sometimes that may not be where you should be. My husband has a Rand McNally Roadmaster which is good; a long time ago we used the Garmin which was just for cars so it wasn't bridge safe and it didn't tell you soon enough when you were supposed to turn.
When I went with my husband I liked to have a washable page roadmap and the eraseable markers where I could trace over the route; used the 3" large paperclips to paperclip the pages to each state.
If you have a computer that is great too if you have the internet aircard; then you can use google maps if you want to see the mapping on the screen; zoom in and you can verify in some cases that the address is really there; he has eneded up with them where they have moved 25 miles away among other things. The worst addresses are to small cities who still use route numbers in some places like WI for one; sometimes I have found a address to something else if the Roadmaster didn't work just to get him in the general area.
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Dewey120: Have you noticed if they cut your miles if you do not do as they wish and go with the Phase 1 training. Just my observation with CRE.
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It seems like some of the vendors think they can pile on whatever weight they want and get away with it. Husband had to have a beer load reloaded because it was way over weight; I was really surprised on this since it use to be that beer loads were the best to haul. Some of the docks won't even load the trucks the right way either unless you pitch a fit, one round the trailer had to be reloaded 4 times.
I think more of you that have problems with these type vendors need to start raising cane. The newbies are the ones who are getting caught and don't have a clue what to do or who to take the problem to.
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