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Tennessee Truck Driving School Probed

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Acccording to eTrucker.com’s Jill Dunn State and federal officials are probing some truck driving schools in tennessee. According toa n article written by Jill Dunn the state has terminated its third-party agreement with the truck driving training school . The school can no longer administer CDL skills tests now.

A quote form the article:
“ The Tennessee Department of Safety ended its agreement with Volunteer Training Center in Murfreesboro on June 21, only six months into the parties’ five-year contract.”

This is another sad story about truck driving schools that have been in the news recently. We posted a list a few weeks back of things you could do to find a quality truck driving shcool. It is definetly important these days to get the right kind of training right from the get go.

Here is a link to the previous article that we wrote on this issue that was titled How To Find A Truck Driving School

The complete article that was quoted above and written by Jill Dunn can be found @
 http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=79738

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C.R. England is Awarded Carrier of the Year From Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company

Monday, June 29th, 2009

SALT LAKE CITY, June 23 /PRNewswire/ — C.R. England, a global transportation provider, has been recognized as the 2008 Globe and Spear Award Winner by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. The Carrier of the Year award is based on the carrier that provides on-time pick-up and delivery service, equipment availability, customer service, and tracing capabilities.

“This award recognizes the excellent performance from our operations and sales team to continuously find ways to serve our customers better,” said Dan England, chairman of the board of C.R. England. “This is one more tribute to the committed team of people we have at C.R. England.”

“This award doesn’t come without a lot of dedication and commitment,” said Dean England, chief executive officer of C.R. England. “We are honored that The Wrigley Company recognizes our hard work and excellence in performance. We value the partnership that we have with them and appreciate this acknowledgement. We look forward to growing our relationship further with them.”

“The Wrigley Logistics Team would like to congratulate C.R. England for their achievement, and express our appreciation for creating value for Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company,” said Ronald Zapfel, Wrigley’s senior manager of transportation and distribution. “We look forward to further developing our relationships as well as sharing our mutual talents in delivering exceptional service to our customers.”

As a customer since 1999, C.R. England has worked with The Wrigley Company to find innovative transportation solutions. Through creative planning and utilizing our various service dimensions, such as our Mexico and Intermodal divisions, England has been able to find efficiencies and increase customer service. Along with Wm. Wrigley Jr., C.R. England analyzed which loads would be better on the rail versus over-the-road. C.R. England has been able to find alternative solutions while helping Wrigley cut down on its transportation costs.

About C.R. England, Inc.

Founded in 1920, C.R. England, Inc. corporate headquarters are located in Salt Lake City, Utah. It has grown to be one of North America’s largest transportation companies. C.R. England services include Long Haul and Short Haul (Regional) One-Way Carriage, Dedicated and Intermodal services as well as a Mexico division and offices in China. Additional services include Truckload, LTL, Parcel and Global Sourcing and Supply Chain Engineering. For more information, visit CR England @ http://www.CREngland.com.

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Truckdriving Schools Quotes of the Month

Friday, June 19th, 2009

We thought we should post just a few of the recent quotes from our recent truck driving school graduates:

Aarton S said:

 ”All Instructors are very intelligent and courteous not to mention
very professional.”

Dan P wrote:

“All of the instructors were totally professional and outstanding! ”

Elaine G said:

” England instructors are very good and patient with the students.”

Brian E wrote:

“All instructors in driving school are outstanding, very patient w/students trying to break old driving habits.”

When you graduate from one of CR England’s Truck Driving Schools you get asked to fill out a survey about your experience up to that point. The surveys can be filled out with or without a name on them. They are of course, optional for the students to fill out. We use the surveys to monitor our progress. We believe the surveys paint a picture of what is really going on at our truckdrivingschools.

These are just a few of the quotes we find on our surveys. They say a lot about the talented staff we have training at our truck driving schools. You can see why we proudly say our trainers are the best in the business!

If your considering the opportunities the truck driving industry offers and would like more information about the truck driving schools that CR England operates please visit us at http://www.GoToTruckDrivingSchool.com.

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Colonel In the Trucking Schools With the Mustard

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

We had to post an update on yesterdays post ” A Truck Driving Schools Quality Matters!”.

Today theProvince.com ran an article with more allegations regarding the now closed truck driving school in Surrey. This most recent article ads a little humor to the situation.

Apparently the owner who was creating fake documents for students thought he was pretty bright. In order to make the documents look a little more authentic, he recommended his students splash a little mustard on the documents. This was to give them an authentic Indian look?

I read a comment that said “I don’t relish … using mustard to ketch up .”
Obviously a very clever comment that definably sums up the entire situation. You can link to today’s article at the bottom of this post.

Well, I can assure you this. Here at CR England, our  truck driving schools are by the book. No sticky situations at our schools. The only condiments here are located just above the napkins and left of the hot dog machine!

Here is theprovince.com article written by John Coleburn http://www.theprovince.com/news/Surrey+truck+scammer+used+mustard+give+fakes+Indian+look/1706636/story.html

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A Truck Driving Schools Quality Matters!

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Just read a horrible story on Surrey Leader.com. They ran an article about a a truckdrivingschools called South West Driving Academy Ltd. The article states that the owner has just been sentenced to serve 15 months under house arrest for supplying letters to students that were fake. The letters helped the students to qualify to drive large trucks in B.C.

We wrote an article not to long ago that discussed why is so important to choose and decide carefully when picking truck driving schools. This just made me realize we needed to revisit that article often for the new comers to the trucking industry. Here is a link to that old article: truckdrivingschoolsblog  truckdrivingschools

Here is a quote from the authorities mentioned in this article “A forensic test of several letters supposedly from authorities in the
Punjab showed that many were printed on a type of paper that is only
sold in North America, and many from different states had identical
logos and signatures.

As well, authorities in one
Punjab city also confirmed to the B.C. investigators that six of the
letters purporting to be from their office were all fakes.”

This is was a serious issue. The complete article written by Dan Ferguson of the Surrey North Delta Leader can be found at http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/surreyleader/breaking_news/48192277.html

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