I know you weren’t. But that term is thrown around quite a bit with the company paid training option.
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Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Morteza, May 6, 2020.
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Before you make your granduer plans.........
Call your local licensing agency. Because of the current state of the Covid-19. You may find companies cant hire you as they have no way to license you. -
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Just for the record. I have no basic issue with a trucking school. Before my diagnosis of Epilepsy, I was offered jobs by two schools to teach, that I gave serious thoughts about but rejected! I have several friends that are teachers. Gosh, I guess I can name off two or three hundred drivers that finished their year and are happy. My comment was not saying company financed school is bad. It is NOT! I'm saying it's not a good fit for everybody, and I always highly advise someone to check out other options first. It just breaks my heart to see these threads asking about their CDLs because of a default! This is what "indentured servitude" is.
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Food for thought: in these hard pandemic times wouldn't it be better to be trained by the company and this way have some sort of job security? For at least a year?
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well nothing says they'd have to keep you. I've seen plenty of threads were drivers were let go during their training stage after CDL school. Like that guy who rolled his truck into the ditch because of his "trainer"
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"relating to an agreement in which someone works for someone else until they have paid back a debt, especially in the past when poor people worked for someone in another country in return for being taken to that country:"
It means an agreement to work for somebody to pay a debt. It does not mean the form such an agreement will be worked under.
Websters defines Servitude two ways.
1.a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life.
2.a right by which something (such as a piece of land) owned by one person is subject to a specified use or enjoyment by another
So an indentured servant is someone with NO liberty to move to another place. Common sense should prevail when it comes to other things. No human has the right to own another. In the case of a person that has promised to work for a year in return for payment (of really most anything) has to fulfill the terms of that agreement. If that agreement is legal, and ALL of these agreements are just that LEGAL. This is why the phrase "indentured servitude" is 100% correct. The only way to satisfy the agreement is to work it off.
That term "indentured servitude" also needs to be stressed to every person looking into this. You are telling a carrier you will drive for them for a year. These debts can NOT be discharged in bankruptcy and at some point, a driver will face garnishment OR any other collections a court may direct. -
that’s my point. You’re NOT forced to work without pay. In fact you’ll be paid for your performance. Perform well, you’ll be paid well. That’s it. That’s all I got for ya. I don’t have the time, nor the energy and ESPECIALLY the desire to go back and forth over semantics.
feel free to have the last word.
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