Pros
New Equipment Drivers are good people
Cons
The school is not free as advertised. England pulls a federal grant for you to attend their driving school. If you breach contract you are responsible for $5000.00 (Veteran)-$7500.00(non-veteran) So, they get the grant + the grant value again if you breach. Hundreds fall for it weekly nationwide. Home time non-existent, requires 3-4wks notice then takes 2-3months Pay is equivalent to the late 1970's early 1980's Forced teaming under 6 months exp with other novice drivers of equal or lesser exp. The majority of their driver trainers have 6 months total driving exp Planners and DM's allow you to sit OFTEN in OTR .14cents per mile & governed @ 62mph, Impossible to make money Staff is rude, you'll find yourself needing to do everything from auditing your own miles/pay to detention and layover, nothing is automatic, if you don't say anything, they won't pay. the training department runs their trainers into the ground by running them as a team with their students while placing unrealistic expectations on the trainers with extremely low compensation. Afterhours are nothing more than glorified Operators that do very little to assist you, leaving you to, in the vast majority of situations in my exp, fend for self. Road Service will attempt to get you to travel to a repair facility (T/A or Petro) when a truck or trailer should be placed out of service, in my exp several hundred miles. Trucks have auto-idle shut off at 70 Degrees if you don't have a tiny bunk fan and 73 degrees if you do. Get used to sleeping in 90-100+ degree ambient temps. Auto-power shutdown when sitting is 5hrs, Forget having a fridge or any perishables. No amenidies provided on the trucks, just barebones. Driver provides everything! Forced dispatch, even if you don't accept a load, miraculously my loads were automatically accepted on my behalf, no matter if i had an issue or not. (made quitting difficult, so i didn't abandon a load or equipment) Qualcomm load instructions generally contain fragmented or outdated customer data. (wrong addresses, phone numbers etc.) Qualcomms have proper address inputed for gps and drops you in many cases downtown areas, miles away from destinations. (shop said there was no issue with it) Was forced on many occasions to drive fatigued because I was tired of being harassed from shutting down from working both ends of the clock while training my apprentices and being run as a working team vs a training truck where i have to be up many times during the trainees drive shift. One hand does not know what the other hand is doing at the offices, get used to problems being your fault, not theirs, you should have submitted the other macro not the one you did. (after hours customer service, freeform, etc. etc.) If you get AR's for lumpers, pallets load locks etc. don't forget to scan your reciept, they will take the cost out of your paycheck to load/ unload their freight. Minor repairs won't be reimbursed even with a receipt without a small fight, just sit the 8-10hrs at a T/A or Petro and let them lose the customer. You are told that England pays $12,000 more than the industry standard, I think the industry is on welfare if that is the case. There were many weeks i made less than $300.00 (McDonalds pays more, and you are home every night) Management and England Family have lost focus on the founding principals C. R. England was founded on. they disrespect Gene England by their practices today.