Pros
There are no pros to working with this company!
Cons
The whole organization is a con. I will take anyone reading down the whole story-line of my experience because the last thing I want is for someone to end up working for this company without knowing what they are getting themselves into. Working with CR England you have to go off for training for about 3-4 weeks to obtain your cdl. The school (or should I say broken down dirt field) in Opelika has to be the worse ever on this planet. When the shuttle turned into the "school" I thought we were turning into a trailer park to pick up more students. They held class in a trailer (no joke) that barely had air. And on the backing field we practicing in trucks that had numerous flat tires and no AC. The field that they had us backing on had so many dirt holes that it was nearly impossible to straight back or alley dock properly. There are only 3 good instructors there out of 8. If it wasn't for those 3, many students including myself would have been completely lost. However those 3 couldn't be everywhere at one time. Thanks to fellow students and YouTube videos most of us made it out in a timely manner. Once we did pass, the school shuttled us to the Red Roof Inn on Frederick Drive in Atlanta. Anyone that knows this hotel, knows this is where the prostitutes, drug dealers, and bums hangout on a regular basis. Terrible environment...I then got assigned a trainer. He was pretty decent, better than most trainers. However when it comes to CR England you make more money in training getting paid 9.25 per hour than you do when you go team after training...making a whooping 0.12 cent a mile. I honestly believe slaves had a better paycheck than CR England workers. Honestly you can work at McDonalds and make more money. You have to live off of advances pretty much from paycheck to paycheck just to make it. I know what most of you are thinking that..."well that means you just have to run a lot of miles to get a good paycheck right? " In order to make a paycheck around 400, possible a little over in a week...then you have to run about 5000 miles a week team. Even then when you look at what you make, how many miles you have to run, and what you have to put up with from CR England then you come to a realization that you can go somewhere else work less and make more!!! The DMs talk to you like dirt and have no idea of what trucking really is, so they don't understand half of the questions that they are being asked. But instead of them saying that they don't understand they will give you a poor excuse and expect you to believe it as the truth. Hometime??? Forget about it! If you want to go home then you literally have to try and outsmart CR England to do so. (Which isn't hard to do) If want to go home on Sept 21st...then you need to put in your home request advising that you need to be home by Sept 14th..because technically it will always be a week later anyway. They never get people home on time if at all! They will lie and say that they cannot find loads to get you back to your state so if you run this load going here then they can get you home. Which of course is a lie. BEWARE OF COMING TO THIS COMPANY. DON'T USE THE EXCUSE OF THEM PAYING FOR YOUR CDL LICENSE TO GET SUCKED IN! You can practice the test online at the dmv website and pay for it yourself. It is way more efficient that dealing with CR England. I wish I had a review like this to read when I signed up to work for them.
