Anyone Know What CR England Hauls?

I'm just kind of curious - starting school there soon - and being a vegan i'm wondering if I'll encounter any dead cow. Have little choice anyway because of a recently resolved suspension...Thanks guys.

and being a vegan i'm wondering if I'll encounter any dead cow.

Do you mean as in Hauling Meat? If you are hauling a Reefer , maybe. If you are pulling a Dry Van , maybe Slim Jims or Beef Jerkey! You really can't be too particular on the freight you haul. As Truck Drivers our job is to Pick it Up, and Drop it off. Preferably on time. No one will force you to eat or wear the product that you haul.

I run reefer and never see dead chickens or cows, but see live ones going in...and the smell at some of the places is horrible. But we gotta eat right?

I'm just kind of curious - starting school there soon - and being a vegan i'm wondering if I'll encounter any dead cow. Have little choice anyway because of a recently resolved suspension...Thanks guys.

So your vegan-hood would make you have an issue hauling meat? Is that kind of like muslims refusing to haul alcohol?

If you are pulling reefer , you will drag whatever you are assigned to drag. If that includes dead animal flesh, haul it you will. CR England is reefer, so chances are - you will be hauling animal flesh.

If hauling what you are asked to haul, poses an issue because of some dietary/deity issues - then you might have an issue with this industry.

Rick

I'm just kind of curious - starting school there soon - and being a vegan i'm wondering if I'll encounter any dead cow. Have little choice anyway because of a recently resolved suspension...Thanks guys.

So your vegan-hood would make you have an issue hauling meat? Is that kind of like muslims refusing to haul alcohol?

If you are pulling reefer , you will drag whatever you are assigned to drag. If that includes dead animal flesh, haul it you will. CR England is reefer, so chances are - you will be hauling animal flesh.

If hauling what you are asked to haul, poses an issue because of some dietary/deity issues - then you might have an issue with this industry.

Rick

Kind of off topic, but I recall at a warehouse I worked at we loaded a truck with variety of those crappy gas station sandwiches....after getting him loaded, driver (happened to be muslim) refused to take it and insisted we unload him due to having 1 pallet of ham sandwiches. We ended up unloading him after he threw such a fit, and his company lost us as a customer.

Guys, I appreciate your responses to my query but please don't user me as a whipping post...It's just that I had read on the forum about someone's first run and he had to drop the trailer in the knacker's yard and then wait 12 hrs for the slaughter to be completed. That's just kinda grim. As I said, I have recently-resolved suspension issues and am grateful to England for taking me on; I just wanted to know what would likely be behind me when my hands are on there wheel.

Dockwrench I read through the responses and do not understand how you feel whipped. The answers were honest, factual, and non-judgemental.

Trucking is a tough business, a thick-skin is mandatory for success and survival.

Although you won't be hauling livestock to a processing plant working for CRE, it's highly likely you could be waiting to be loaded with finished product at the same type of shipper.

Even if you're not hauling meat, you WILL encounter stock trucks. Seeing those poor animals stuffed in there has changed my eating habits.

Kind of off topic, but I recall at a warehouse I worked at we loaded a truck with variety of those crappy gas station sandwiches....after getting him loaded, driver (happened to be muslim) refused to take it and insisted we unload him due to having 1 pallet of ham sandwiches. We ended up unloading him after he threw such a fit, and his company lost us as a customer.

Hear ya. We had a case down here, of a guy that went to work for EAGLE BRANDS (a BEER DISTRIBUTOR) that then filed an EEOC complaint against his employer for discriminating against his religion by making him haul ALCOHOL. I mean - how do you apply for an alcohol distributor and not know it was haraam up front? Just looking for a payday I guess.

G-Town - I was kinda playing "whip the vegan" - it's fun. Or at least funny, when someone applies for a reefer company and wants to know if they are going to be hauling meat - and throws out the "vegan card".

Yeah Dockwench - you might be stuck at the slaughterhouse waiting for the load to be processed. I hear the hog farms are the WORST, right up there with the chicken places. And it sucks, even for us carnivores - kinda makes folks want to swear off meat I hear (never had the pleasure of getting to a slaughter house myself). So being vegan may give you the added suck's of being morally opposed to what goes on at the shipper - doesn't matter. Stick on the nose plugs, and haul the load.

Regardless - with the exception of certain other "temp controlled loads" for the most part reefer drivers haul FOOD. THEY FEED THE NATION. Be proud of your part in that - regardless of whether or not you care to eat what's on there yourself.

Rick

You may want to change your diet. Trucking is hard and requires long hours. You could probably do it as a vegetarian but not vegan you'll be too weak