Maverick wont hire me because of termintation

CondoCruiser said:

I'm so sick of hearing this without proof. Show me the proof,

Physical: $108.00
Drug Screen: $68.00
Bus Ticket: $98.00
Hotel (3 nights): $120.00

I see less than $400.00. Any other costs associated (employee salary, office paper, etc...) that's on them. That is THEIR cost of running a business. All businesses have operating costs, and potential employees can't be held responsible for those costs.

Stop saying $3000 to $4000 just because some idiot told YOU that.

 

it is 3 years history for newbies
10 year history for exp drivers

 

never quit,always resign.

 

these places don't ask for any sort of proof of employment? w-2, etc? I'm kind of in the same situation, only I didn't quit, just had a layoff and spent majority of the time since then working with a friend.

 

I can't speak to companies that only hire experienced drivers, but the figure of several thousand dollars for companies that hire new students is a perfectly decent estimate.

Factors to consider in addition you what you listed:

- Construction of a training facility
- Maintenance and operating costs associated with that facility
- Salaries of training staff and benefits for that staff
- Costs in providing transportation for new drivers and/or students during orientation between terminal and hotels
- Extra pay for trainers who run with students
- Increased insurance costs for hiring inexperienced drivers
- Increased costs with drivers being late on loads while learning (late fees etc.)
- Increased accident and damage claims due to inexperienced drivers
- Increased fuel costs associated with drivers learning not to have a lead foot
- Federal and state level background checks, both employment and criminal
- CSA, PSP, DAC background checks
- Costs associated with abandoned trucks and/or getting drivers home when they quit
- Providing all required safety and oeprational equipment to new drivers

There's probably more than that.

When someone quotes that figure or something similar, they're referring to ALL costs associated with hiring new drivers as opposed to not hiring at all until someone quits or gets fired. Since turnover rates in the industry are so high, almost all companies have to hire on a constant basis. If this wasn't the case, they wouldn't need recruiting staff, advertising, job fairs, paying for CDL schools, etc etc etc. You wouldn't need any of that if you only had a couple job openings per year.

So yes, that big figure quoted is probably accurate. You don't really need proof, it's all common sense if you stop and think about it for awhile.

 

Since you were laid off, you can cover the time since then with a notorized letter signed by your friend or family that you were looking for jobs or just doing handyman work around the neighborhood. Lots of companies with CDL schools will hire you.

Roehl Transport
JBS Carriers
Millis Transfer
Swift Transportation
Central Refrigerated
Midwest-Coast

 

I'm not talking about students, and every time someone post's the infamous "$3,000 to $4,000" quote, it doesn't appear they are talking about students either.
So; based on YOUR "assumptions"...why don't we figure in all of us who paid for our own schooling (not everyone get's trained by a trucking company)?

Since I paid $3,000 out-of-pocket for my own schooling (and I am one of hundreds of thousands), I stand by MY figures of less than $400, to be closer to the actual cost to HIRE a driver.
There are plenty of schools and training facilities out there....trucking companies don't HAVE to acquire this expense themselves.

It's all common sense if you stop and think about it for awhile.

 

I also paid for my own training, still paying for it actually.

But I suppose, if you want to get right down to it, the most common sense answer that applies here is that neither of us work for the accounting department of a major trucking company, so neither of us is qualified to determine whether or not the big figure is actually accurate. Just because you know a few figures for a few of the basic hiring costs doesn't mean you have any idea what goes on on the back end, any more than I know what a company pays to hire only experienced drivers.

So, I guess until one of us (or both of us) actually works in a big trucking company's accounting department, neither of us can say whether the figure they quote is accurate or not.