Went to England

Out of desperation of job searching, and having to compete with the sea of humanity of basicly licenced newbs like the rest of us out here, I nearly went to work for the CRE. After much soul searching and praying on the matter, I've decided to continue jumping thru the "refresher, endorsement testing, placement testing, waiting" hoops at the original company I decided to work for, hoping there will be a better oppertunity there. Reading these forums has certainly been an eye opening experience for me, and has given me the confidence to "hang in there" for a job in these tough times. Saienga, your story was quite an adventure, and I'm glad you survived to do better on the other side of it all. I wish you better fortunes in the future, and to be safe out there. Thanks for all the information everyone, truly.

-M

 

That is what I don't understand about "leasing" why is the driver (renter) responsible for repairs? When you rent a car from Avis and it breaks down are you supposed to cover the bill to fix it?

 

Yeah, it's a real sweet deal for the company, that's for sure.

If you lease a car, you're responsible for the repairs, too, I suppose.

Think of "lease programs" as "outsourcing of risk" for the company doing the leasing.

 

In the car world leaseing makes some sense. Say you lease a $25,000 car for $350 a month, that comes out to $12500 after 36 months. Which is about the same that you'd lose after depreciation and interest if you bought it.

Now let's say you lease a new truck from CR England at $650 a week for 36 months. That is $93,600!!!!! You easily could have bought one in full for that kind of money, deducted depreciation, and still had about $35 grand in equity in the truck after the three years.

If the payment was a grand a month, it would make financial sense, not at $650 a week. I can not believe suckers are falling for this crazy scam.

 

Yeah, well there's a lot of folks out there that aren't the best at math and missed a few days in financial school as kids (count me in). I learned the hard way.

As far as I'm concerned, leasing a car is a waste of money, too.

 

Either that or they want to "live the dream" as fast as possible and go the route of the fleace instead of becoming an O/O the proper way, by buying your own equipment or at least just a tractor.


I wouldn't lease a car but at least there is some sense behind it, as far truck fleacing it is a worse scam than casinos.

At least at a casino you can have a little fun while throwing your money away here you have to work while throwing your money literally out the window via the fleace deal.

 

if you haven't left yet , crete has a school in hastings ne. also they are affiliated with the college in norfolk ne. i through you had to be 23 before they would look at you.

 

Thanks Ed for posting this thread. I am getting in to the business for the first time, and I think I am going to go with CRE. They seem to be a good company. Quick question for you " are you required to be on the road for 30 days are can the training be shortened?"

 

There is a saying, "not everything that shines is gold."

 

Short of you having had road experience.... I would recomend you get those 30 - 60 days anyways. The experience of learning where stuff is helps treamondously!