CR England..Don't Go With Them

I've had students complain because they didn't to sit down for 3 meals a day, I recently had one quit because of it. I had one guy that had a great idea to sweep out the trailer and then actually cried tears when I made asked him to do it a second time because he half assed it the first time. The list goes on on on on on..... I finally quit training because of the bee itch azzness. I had some great ones too, but the bad ones seem to overshadow the good. Maybe ill try again later. Almost 4 years straight running with students burned me out.

 

I can understand that but wouldnt it be better to be on the hook for the cost of training then on the hook for a truck lease?

 

Let's try this approach, shall we?.........

In other words, where did you get your information from about CRE only charging the variable mileage to leasers? Whether or not CRE lied to us about the true purpose or definition of it is not necessarily important at this point; What is, however, is the fact that I've got my company telling everybody one thing and you, telling me something else.

Good for them. I hope they didn't pay more for what their truck is worth.

Although we never had any intentions of buying this truck at the end of it's lease, that's just one of the rumors I heard is that the end-of-the-lease buyout price is way more than what the truck is worth. All in all, it don't really matter regardless because we don't want this truck when we're done with it.

Sad thing is, it seems like these kind of people are the ones that thought they could run a business with a lease truck and wonder why they failed so miserably.

 

Was the original poster a Mormon?

This is what I think the problem all these people are having with them.
Mormans favor there own, and try to draw everybody else into it.
Ask anybody who lived in Utah for a while this.

The only reason they allowed blacks to hold postions in the church in 1978 ? Is that they wanted to get the Olympics in Utah. Blacks would have boycoted the games if they where held in Utah. Also they would lose the Sundance film festival if the Morman religion did not back off.

At first I thought C.R. England was a great company. The Mormon family values ect.
This is about par for a Morman family run busness.

P.S. Ask if there is poligamy in Utah. The police will say no. The F.B.I. will say yes.

 

We had to go to Horizon to find this out but they were the ones who told us that the only time you can go back to being a company driver when leasing is after completing a lease. If you terminate that contract early, they won't hire you as a company driver.

That could be part of it, but what I don't get, there has to be something else going on because they have to realize that leasing is not for everyone but then again, maybe that's why they have the six-month demo lease option. If you wanna try it but don't feel comfortable enough to dive right into a 3 year lease, you don't have to.

As far as the amount of company drivers they have on hand, any business is like that. Who and how many they hire has to do with demand. If not a lot of freight is moving, theyll only accept teams. If they have a lot of solo freight, they will allow solos.

Right you are, Condo. No company is perfect. Granted, some are worse than others but I strongly believe that you, the driver is what will decide if you make it or break it.

 

Your right, I just don't see what's so shady about it. Beat them at their own supposed game. If they tell you there's no company trucks available, then take your newly acquired CDL somewhere else. Depending on how bad they need you or how well you did in school and in training, you'll find out.

Exactly. Hopefully the mistakes that you possibly make won't be too costly but on the other hand, you should get out of it before they start costing an arm and leg, and possibly a kidney or perhaps a lung as well.

 

Well I hope it doesn't cost somebody that dearly. you would never catch me near this company, I did my time with the likes of em when I came out of trucking school in 1995. I did my time and learned more than my share of lessons. The good thing about driving trucks is you can always learn something new every day if your willing to learn.

 

I wouldn't either, but it's kinda hard to be sympathetic for someone if they allow themselves to for months without making any money.
To my knowledge, the only real consequence for getting out of a lease deal prematurely is a negative mark on your credit for a lease incomplete.

I've had bad to mediocre credit for most of my life and once you get things worked out, its really not that hard to rebuild your credit score so as far as I'm concerned there's no excuse for taking the shaft for as long as some people do.

 

And the day you know everything is the day you should probably hang up the keys.

 

I don't know man, I am beginning to believe all these CRE posts are made by the same dude. Always a new member got forced into a lease and raped by a trainer, same old stereotypical bs all the time, I see the similarities in all the posts.

I do not care that someone posts the truth about a company and I am not defending CRE, but I am just telling it the way I saw it while there, none of this happened to me or anyone I know at CRE.