How can I get out of contract?

I understand your frustration. However, I will reiterate: if at all possible, finish out your contract. See if you can get on the 20/10 program. My brother was on that and thought it was pretty cool. He has just over 15 months in at CRST and is now looking for something else. He's not on 20/10 any more and CRST has lost its allure for him. All you have to do is put up with the crap for 2/3 of a year and you will have fulfilled the contract. From what I understand, if you leave three days before that 8 months is up, you will owe the full amount for school. Don't think I care for that....but it's a well-written contract with all the chips in CRST's favor. It won't be easy to wriggle out of.

 

The grass always seems greener!

Ride it out man. It most likely will not be worth everything you will have to go through.

 

I can understand your frustration of not geting paid or paid on time. Yes if they will accept a payment plan you could go that route. My main thing is this you said that the other company is interested in you or has made you an offer. That is fine and if you truly believe it to be a better situation for you overall then by all means persue it. Just make sure that you have something more concrete then an offer, i.e. something in writing that says you will be hired on this date under these condition before you leave. If you don't have that I would not leave you may find yourself in a worse position with no job and no pay at all.

 

If they are not paying you for what they contractually have agreed to (tolls) then in my opinion they have already broken the contract. Now you need to document it and have solid proof. Then take it to them and ask them to mutually negate the contract.

 

It seems to me that if you are getting 5,000-6,000 miles per week, even at $0.22/cents per mile you should be bringing in over $1,000/week. That isn't a bad pay check. If you are doing that many miles and with the rate, you are probably running team. If it were me, I would try to work out any problems with them and complete my contract. You can also go around most tolls if that is causing you the most problem.

 

$.22 that sounds illegal and insane.

P.S. I understand the 8 month root canal statement now by... notarps4me

 

I think that he is probably running team. The way teams are compensated is that they split the rate. If a team member is paid $0.22/mile then they are essentially paid for all miles that are driven on the truck, whether they drive them or not. Another way to look at teams is that each team is paid $0.44/mile (in this example) for all miles driven. The pay is equally split between the team so that each receives $0.22/mile for ALL miles that the team drives. Most carriers simply pay each team member the same pay, regardless of how many miles each drives. One week member "a" may drive more miles and the next week member "b" drives more. It should average out. Unless you understand the dynamics of how a team is compensated the compensation can be deceiving. I am assuming the poster is driving team since he stated that he has been driving 5,000-6,000/week. He will not be able to do that unless he drives team.

 

Yeah I've teamed before, made good money but after 3 month I wanted to kill the other driver. I didn't read where this guy was teaming though.