Don't do it! Why? Read on. This is how it works at CREngland Trucking Company. You go through a three-week school, at which, it is impossible to fail a test of any sort. If you fail a test, you can take it over. If you fail it again? You guessed it! You take it over. If you fail it again, they give you the answers. If you fail the test again, the instructor leaves the room and lets fellow students help you. I'm not making any of this up. Ask any former student. That's the way it was in Salt Lake City when I did my refresher course, and that's the way it was at Burns Harbor when I became a Phase One trainer. Nothing is made to seem important, not tests, pre-trips, logs, nothing.
At the England schools, there are two phases of training, called naturally Phase One and Phase Two. When a trainee graduates from a school, he goes on the road with a phase one trainer for 30 days.That makes sense, but it's not nearly enough. After that month-long Phase One road trip, that student is given the choice of going back on the road with another trainer for 60 days for Phase Two, or leasing a truck from Horizon and going on the road immediately. That’s where they get you.
Nobody wants to go out for another 60 days with yet another trainer, so virtually all students choose to lease a truck when their initial 30 days of training is over. Now, see if you can grasp this: These new drivers are NOT qualified to go out in a company truck and drive alone, but if they lease a truck from Horizon, they’re qualified all of a sudden. In fact, they now qualify to be a trainer. I kid you not! What they don’t tell you is that they own Horizon Leasing; they want you to lease a truck. That's why you're given the option of (1) more drudgery with very little pay or (2) hit the road in a new truck. Now, what would you do?
Then, there's the company training department. It has ONE job, and that job is to lease trucks to students. That’s all they do. They push leasing, and they push it hard. Yes, the training department. The company’s payment for a truck to the manufacturer is roughly $1,200 a month, but they lease those same trucks to their drivers for $2,100 a month. What the drivers are doing is, hauling for CREngland and making the payments for them to the truck manufacturer, and it’s all taken out of your check.
And if you don't make enough ""paid miles per gallon"" as they put it, that will also be taken out of your check. In other words, if you buy too much fuel, it's not held over for the next load. You're charged for it. After my first week on the road alone in a ""leased"" truck, my check was: I owed them $4.95. That's the truth. I leased a truck so I could go on the road and make a decent paycheck for a change, and my reward was that I owed them $4.95 for the privilege.
But the student isn’t really leasing the truck at all. If so, that driver would be independent, like they told me I was, and even if terminated, he could take the truck down the street and haul for Central or Pride. But you can’t. It’s not a lease, and the ""independent contractors"" as they call them, are not independent at all. They’re employees who drive new trucks that never need repairs, only servicing, which YOU have to pay for. In a real lease, you could keep the truck as long as you make payments on it. It’s NOT a lease.
After CREngland leases a truck to the trainee, the front office arranges for Equinox to take care of the books for the “business owners” as they will call you. But what they don’t tell those “independents” is that CREngland owns Equinox too. Quite convenient, wouldn’t you say? They own everything. They have total control, and if you don't like it, they have 100 new drivers coming in next Monday night for another $10,000 in new tax credits. Yep, they get a $1,000 tax credit every time a new driver walks in the door. That's every week at every school.
England does all this to accomplish three things: (1) They get NEW trucks on the road so there are no breakdowns, and no money out of CREngland's pocket, (2) Employees pay for the trucks with a nice little profit to put into CREngland's pocket, (3) tax credits, but the main reason they do it is so (3) They don’t have to pay unemployment. What makes all that even worse is that they hide behind religion. Oh those Englands! What a bunch of crooks! They screw employees, then hide behind religion. there's nothing lower than that.
CREngland has beaten the game. It took me a while to figure them out, and that I had been really nothing more than an employee. After they fired me for not keeping my logs straight, that’s when I applied for unemployment. I didn't get it. I get it now. Pun intended!
C R England Trucking Reviews
Future CREngland drivers:
Don't do it! Why? Read on. This is how it works at CREngland Trucking Company. You go through a three-week school, at which, it is impossible to fail a test of any sort. If you fail a test, you can take it over. If you fail it again? You guessed it! You take it over. If you fail it again, they give you the answers. If you fail the test again, the instructor leaves the room and lets fellow students help you. I'm not making any of this up. Ask any former student. That's the way it was in Salt Lake City when I did my refresher course, and that's the way it was at Burns Harbor when I became a Phase One trainer. Nothing is made to seem important, not tests, pre-trips, logs, nothing.
At the England schools, there are two phases of training, called naturally Phase One and Phase Two. When a trainee graduates from a school, he goes on the road with a phase one trainer for 30 days.That makes sense, but it's not nearly enough. After that month-long Phase One road trip, that student is given the choice of going back on the road with another trainer for 60 days for Phase Two, or leasing a truck from Horizon and going on the road immediately. That’s where they get you.
Nobody wants to go out for another 60 days with yet another trainer, so virtually all students choose to lease a truck when their initial 30 days of training is over. Now, see if you can grasp this: These new drivers are NOT qualified to go out in a company truck and drive alone, but if they lease a truck from Horizon, they’re qualified all of a sudden. In fact, they now qualify to be a trainer. I kid you not! What they don’t tell you is that they own Horizon Leasing; they want you to lease a truck. That's why you're given the option of (1) more drudgery with very little pay or (2) hit the road in a new truck. Now, what would you do?
Then, there's the company training department. It has ONE job, and that job is to lease trucks to students. That’s all they do. They push leasing, and they push it hard. Yes, the training department. The company’s payment for a truck to the manufacturer is roughly $1,200 a month, but they lease those same trucks to their drivers for $2,100 a month. What the drivers are doing is, hauling for CREngland and making the payments for them to the truck manufacturer, and it’s all taken out of your check.
And if you don't make enough ""paid miles per gallon"" as they put it, that will also be taken out of your check. In other words, if you buy too much fuel, it's not held over for the next load. You're charged for it. After my first week on the road alone in a ""leased"" truck, my check was: I owed them $4.95. That's the truth. I leased a truck so I could go on the road and make a decent paycheck for a change, and my reward was that I owed them $4.95 for the privilege.
But the student isn’t really leasing the truck at all. If so, that driver would be independent, like they told me I was, and even if terminated, he could take the truck down the street and haul for Central or Pride. But you can’t. It’s not a lease, and the ""independent contractors"" as they call them, are not independent at all. They’re employees who drive new trucks that never need repairs, only servicing, which YOU have to pay for. In a real lease, you could keep the truck as long as you make payments on it. It’s NOT a lease.
After CREngland leases a truck to the trainee, the front office arranges for Equinox to take care of the books for the “business owners” as they will call you. But what they don’t tell those “independents” is that CREngland owns Equinox too. Quite convenient, wouldn’t you say? They own everything. They have total control, and if you don't like it, they have 100 new drivers coming in next Monday night for another $10,000 in new tax credits. Yep, they get a $1,000 tax credit every time a new driver walks in the door. That's every week at every school.
England does all this to accomplish three things: (1) They get NEW trucks on the road so there are no breakdowns, and no money out of CREngland's pocket, (2) Employees pay for the trucks with a nice little profit to put into CREngland's pocket, (3) tax credits, but the main reason they do it is so (3) They don’t have to pay unemployment. What makes all that even worse is that they hide behind religion. Oh those Englands! What a bunch of crooks! They screw employees, then hide behind religion. there's nothing lower than that.
CREngland has beaten the game. It took me a while to figure them out, and that I had been really nothing more than an employee. After they fired me for not keeping my logs straight, that’s when I applied for unemployment. I didn't get it. I get it now. Pun intended!