C.R. England - England Brothers Inducted into the University of Utah’s School of Business Hall of Fame

C.R. EnglandStore this angel in big sizeTuesday, November 6, 2007, Salt Lake City, UT – Eugene and William England of C. R. England trucking aggregation were inducted into the David Eccles School of Business’ Hall of Fame at the University of Utah and abutting a celebrated account of acknowledged businessmen and women accustomed previously. Dean Jack Brittain aswell appear a abruptness $1 actor donation to the David Eccles School anniversary Eugene and William and their spouses June and Fern. Funded by their children, the allowance will advice angel two ample classrooms in the school’s accessible adjustment project.

Gene and Bill England were accustomed by ancestors associates and the business association for their addition to Utah business. Their acknowledged business careers aboriginal began at their adolescence home in Plain City while alive for their father’s beginning trucking business. Established in 1920, the ancestors business initially started with alone one employee, the boys’ ancestor Chester. In their aboriginal teens, Gene and Bill abutting the business and started carriage bales throughout the intermountain area. From apprehensive beginnings, the England brothers and their harder alive ancestor accustomed C. R. England, Inc., now one of the better trucking companies in the nation. C.R. England currently employs added than 3,800 barter drivers and absolute contractors in accession to operating four barter active schools nationwide. The schools accommodate all-encompassing and absolute barter disciplinarian training and consecutive barter active jobs for -to-be able drivers.

Recognized as accurate American entrepreneurs, Gene and Bill accustomed a lot of of their business apprenticeship and acquaintance from their ancestor while accompanying him on continued summer hauls. After chief that the trucking business was added advantageous than farming, Chester purchased his aboriginal Model T barter and started carrying aftermath locally. Working beside their father, Gene and Bill added the agile to cover four accumulation trucks and added routes that accomplished far above the Intermountain West.

Both England sons served in World War II while their ancestor connected to acquirement added trucks and aggrandize the trucking business. Once appear from aggressive duty, Bill and Gene rejoined the ancestors business and anniversary connected their career as a barter disciplinarian carriage aftermath above the continental United States.

Gene and Bill connected to accomplish C. R. England until the 1980s if they started to gradually alteration ascendancy of the ancestors business to their sons and grandsons. Gene is currently the admiral of the aggregation but still finds time to accomplish deliveries as a affiliate of the England fleet. With his custom-designed claimed truck, Gene and his wife June still accomplish common hauls to added C. R. England terminals throughout the United States, generally clocking as abounding as 500 afar a day.

Bill aswell finds time to serve his association in assorted capacities. In accession to his abutment for the David Eccles School of Business and the Diabetes Center at the University of Utah, Bill is above admiral of the Utah Trucking Association and serves on several committees for West Valley City.

The spirit of Gene and Bill’s generosity and abutment for the Utah association has been anesthetized on to their accouchement and grandchildren. As acclaimed previously, Bill and Gene’s accouchement abutting calm to accord $1 actor which will advice armamentarium the two new classrooms to be called afterwards the ambitious brothers. The William K. England and Eugene K. England classrooms will be amid in the anew adapted David Eccles School of Business architecture complex. The architecture activity is appointed to activate in 2008.

C. R. England, Inc. charcoal a abreast captivated ancestors business and has broadcast added than ten-fold in the accomplished 20 years. Dan England, the son of Gene, is the company’s administrator of the axle and the accepted administration aggregation includes several third and fourth-generation England ancestors members. With terminals in New Jersey, Indiana, Texas, and California, the Salt Lake City-based aggregation is one of the better air-conditioned trucking and busline companies in the United States.

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Hall of Fame Past Recipients:

Spencer F. Eccles, Chairman Emeritus, Wells Fargo Intermountain Banking
Richard L.Warner, Former Chairman, Rick Warner Enterprises
George W. Romney, Governor, Michigan
Joseph Rosenblatt, Former Chairman, Eimco Corp.
David C. Evans, Founder, Evans and Sutherland
Kendall D. Garff, Chairman and CEO, Garff Enterprises
June M. Morris, Former President and CEO, Morris Travel Group
Robert W. Keener, Retired President and CEO, Northwest Pipeline Corp.
J. Willard Marriott, Jr., Chairman, President and CEO, Marriott International
William H. Child, Chairman and CEO, R. C. Willey
Jon M. Huntsman, Sr., Chairman and Founder, Huntsman Corporation
Scott S. Parker, IHC President Emeritus
Ezekiel R. Dumke, Jr., President, Dumke Investments
John W. Gallivan, Publisher Emeritus, Salt Lake Tribune
Pierre & Claudette Lassonde, President, Newmont Mining (Pierre)
Dr. Rodney H. Brady, President and CEO, Deseret Management
James L. Sorenson, President, Sorenson Development
Larry H. Miller, Owner, Larry Miller Enterprises
Leone W. “Pete” Harman, Founder, Harman Management Corporation
Earl Holding, Owner, Grand America Hotel, Sinclair Oil Co., Snow Basin & Sun Valley Ski Resorts
Robert Rice, Founder, European Health Spas; President, Rice Industries

C.R. England
4701 West 2100 South
Salt Lake City, UT, 84120, USA
(801) 972-2712
www.crengland.com

C.R. England, already one of the nation's arch trucking companies, continues to abound in admeasurement and reputation. Because of this growth, we accommodate outstanding trucking jobs and career opportunities, as able-bodied as accomplish the a lot of celebrated barter active academy in the nation. For our drivers, we action added than a barter active job with a top trucking company. We advice them Drive Life. We accommodate connected advance with programs at our best barter active school, for example, and action bright paths to added albatross in trucking job duties-and to the added pay that goes alternating with it.