Going through Central Refrigerated Services affiliated trucking school and struggling

If Central flunks you, ignore the debt; they didn't provide what you paid for. Even if they mess with your credit, so what? Most Americans have credit problems these days. Go with the Teamsters school if it doesn't work out & you will have several good options as to companies.

 

You need to speak with your instructors and let them know that you need extra practice. For what you're paying for the school, they need to be bending over backwards to help you succeed. If you can't get the extra help that you need, talk to your recruiter at Central. Maybe that can light a fire under their ##### to help you get what you are paying for.

 

Chinatown,

This is solid, and valid advice; although, they could try to sue him, and that would result in the court mandating him to pay it back or garnishing his wages. I hear that is never a fun process. Food for thought!

 

States write their own laws on garnishment. Some states garnishment is limited to child support, unpaid court fines, taxes, etc. It may have happened, but I've never heard of a garnishment for a cdl school debt. The lawyer fees would outweigh the outcome of a CDL school debt. $3000.00 would probably be turned over to a collection agency. Collection agencies buy the debt for pennies on the dollar in hopes of making a profit on it. After 7 years they can't do anything except bluff the debtor. One scam they use is to have the debtor agree to send a small payment, even $1.oo and what that does is restart the 7 year process over again. If you don't pay anything on the $3000.00 debt for 5 years, then in 2 more years you no longer owe the debt. If you send a small $5.00 payment on the 5th year, then you have 7 more years to deal with the collection agency because you restarted the 7 year process.

"thejohn" can Google and look at his state laws concerning that.

 

Go higher in the chain.

I don't want to see you in tears in a few months . . .

 

I had a lot of problems in school learning how to back. Watched tapes several times and stumbled upon section that advised knowing which way the nose of the trailer needs to go. If nose needs to go right then turn the wheel to the right and back up. If nose needs to go left then turn left. What worked for 90% of the students did not work for me.

 

if you dont get your cdl A license with central you dont owe anything. The contract states you owe them $3000 only if you obtain a class A license. I went though their program and there was a few students who couldn't pass the test to get their cdl a....they were just sent home. Also I heard bad things about the TDA in sacramento. If you do pass your test and go with a trainer, pray that you get a good trainer.