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Posted:  5 years, 11 months ago

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My CR England Nightmare

I posted the damn truth, if you guys cant accept that then I am sorry.... you have no idea...I have been around trucking my whole life. My father drove for 40 years and when I wasn't in school, I was on the truck with my old man....I stand by what I posted and I will not back down or apologize. By the way, I have had my reports run by other companies and they all came back as me still being employed by England...maybe you shouldn't assume things before you have facts

Posted:  5 years, 11 months ago

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My CR England Nightmare

My nightmare began in last week of January of 2018...

they sent me to their Salt Lake City facility..first they told me they were going to put me in a hotel which was a lie, I shared a dorm room is 7 other men who were some of the most disgusting and filthy people I have ever met in my entire life. I ended up getting sick.......twice

the "school" was a total of 10 days, for me it was different as I went to an actual trucking school before hand and was there for a month before having to go home due to a family emergency.

The backing "instructors" were never there...they were there for half of the first day of backing and then never seen after that. There was students teaching students how to offset and parallel park... Took my CDL road test and passed first try. After I passed my test I was told I would have a trainer within 24-48 hours but it took them 2 AND A HALF WEEKS!! They don't pay you anything while in school (normal) and once you pass your road test they give you $25 per day as per diem.

I was relieved to get a trainer, and I was excited to find out my trainer was given a driver of the year award the day he was paired with me. Everything was good for the first hour...after that it all went to hell.

First, he wanted me to drive 60 mph over snow and ice covered mountains in Colorado, then asked to see a picture of my wife and one year old daughter (I didn't mind, I was trying to be nice...I had to be with him for a month on the road..) and then started to make sexual remarks about my wife. I took every ounce of strength I had to not knock him out, but its not worth losing my job or going to jail. I contacted CR England and they got me routed back to SLC and got me a new trainer fairly quickly. The new trainer was good, he wasn't forcing me to drive unsafely or anything like that or threatening to stab me like the first trainer did (dead serious...no pun intended)

After I surpassed my hours required for the first phase of training (they say 200 hours but I was done at 160) I was sent to South Holland, IL. They put me in some disgusting red roof inn and had me do further testing to "upgrade" to phase 2. I passed this without issue. They said that I was entitled to 4 days of home time which I happily took since I missed my one year old. I was told from the beginning that they would get me on a bus home but instead they made me wait a week for a truck to come by and pick me up that was coming to New Jersey where I reside. Once the driver arrived to pick me up he told me he was out of hours of service and I needed to drive (no problem). I drove from Lansing, IL to Edison, NJ while he slept.

When payday rolled around I noticed I wasn't paid for those miles driven, so I called payroll to ask why and was met by a woman on the other end of the line that told me to wait until the next check and then hung up on me. Waited another week, still nothing. Turns out when they put me on the truck to go home the training coordinator that did everything never assigned me to the truck and there for I was not entitled to anything driven even though I drove (this is what they told me....) Eventually after 3 more weeks I got paid for it ($32).

After those 4 days they got me on another truck with a guy that was quite possibly one of the weirdest people on planet earth. I was told when I was in phase 1 training that I could team with a friend of mine, after 2 weeks of complaining and threatening to quit they got us paired together. NOW there is where I start to crack...

I wasn't paid for 3 WEEKS

DM refused to get us a load or answer our calls

When I was finally paid, I was shorted by HUNDREDS of dollars, when I called payroll they hung up on me....again

fast forward to now

I have been home for 3 and a half weeks and no one at the company will return my calls, DM wont answer my calls or emails

I have been trying to get back on the road so I can start making money again, but so far NOTHING but then I sat and thought to myself, is it worth it? I was making 0.14 cents a mile driving as a team and 0.20 solo...

I have decided to leave CR Crapland and go to Super Service, much better training and pay....

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