Any lawyers on here?

WOW. Asking on a trucking forum for lawyers is silly.
Not being able to read is sillier.
Not liking and attacking another poster because you don't like the answer. Just wow.

I know you want to to leave without fulfilling your contract and are trying to argue your way out of it, but that's just not going to happen.
Here are the steps you need to take.
1. Hire a lawyer.
2. Finish fulfilling the contract you signed or pay the penalties after the lawyer tells you you need to.
3. Move on with life.

 

Just another example of should’ve hired a lawyer before signing contract.

Nonetheless, sounds like the op got a great deal from whatever company he hired on with.
The cost of $5,300 is the same as I paid for the college program I took.

Unfortunately he’s just now not understanding what he signed. I interpreted as he is obligated to complete the miles. Had they completed the miles in 10 months he’d need to stay until the 12 months is up.

Seems silly to waste money on litigation when he could just drive a couple weeks or 3 and be done with it. No wasted money on lawyers and a few extra weeks of pay.

OP, you got a darn good deal with that company. I’ve read some that have had to pay thousands more. The cost of the training was very reasonable by today’s standards.

 

I'll explain, since the OP doesn't have a good grasp of the English language:
Provided that Driver Trainee obtains his/her CDL AND completes 120,000 miles in operation of a Commercial Motor Vehicle for the Company, OR, is employed by the Company for at least one year thereafter, whichever is longer, Driver Trainee will not be required to pay the Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) cost of the Program.
This means that you have to complete the full 120,000 miles to get out of paying the $5000. Unless freight was really crap or you took a lot of time off, you SHOULD be pretty close by now....

Sounds like you're ready to leave, so if I were you, I'd iron out just HOW far along you are. A 20k discrepancy is pretty big. HR might be using a tabulation from the end of last month or something...

 

or, is employed by the Company for at least one year thereafter, whichever is longer,

the way i "read" that, is once you hit the 1 year point, you fulfilled your contract.

had you reached 120,000 in say 7 months?

then you'd have fulfilled your contract.

 

.whichever is longer

 

Not “whichever comes first”…….

 

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OK first question to the OP.

When was your official date of employment?

Second question, can you ask the safety department to put your mileage in writing?

 

Can you post the whole contract with the names blacked out? In cases like these, punctuation and formatting matter.

As to the difference in miles - I would guess that safety is counting ALL miles, from when you started training. Recruiting is only counting the miles you drove AFTER training. I would also guess that the year counter started not 4/11/22 but whenever you finished CDL training. But without the full contract there's no way to know.