Unbelievable Company Recruiter at my Truck School

A recruiter came to my truck School today, and a few of us left the driving range to hear what he had to offer. I'm not going to mention the companies name, but if it were a car, Burt Reynolds would definitely drive it and he would have a golden eagle painted on the cars hood.

The recruiter was telling us how super awesome his refrigerated trucking company is, promising us all an industry leading newcomers pay of 23 cents a mile for the first six months, with a half a penny raise of you make it to month six, and another half a penny raise for your one year anniversary. Not to mention all that sweet per diem pay that lowers your job income when you try to get a loan to purchase a rat infested shanty to live in.

He also explained to us how we can falsify our logs by going on duty for 5 minutes for pretrip, go off duty after that five, then continue doing the pretrip on our off duty time. If we enjoyed falsifying our logs doing that, he told us that when we go to get fuel, use the same technique, five on duty, the rest off.

I brought up the scenario of driver getting injured, or somehow involved in an incident that was serious, say moving the truck off duty in the fuel line and stupidly causing property damage or worse, and how the company's lawyers will say "the driver was logged off duty when event occurred, this is against policy, he's fired." He told me that they wouldn't fire the driver, and furthermore, every single trucking company tells their drivers to falsify their logs all the time, and if I wanted to work in the industry, I'd have to falsify my logs as well.

Ok, I used that terminology talking to him, he said something like, "it's being creative with your time to show the d.o.t. officers the minimum expected log entry for an event in order to satisfy them and maximize your time."

I told the guy that he answered my questions and that I was good, and I left his sales pitch and went back and practiced my pretrip.

Anybody else in trucking school hear some absolute nonsense from the recruiters who visited your class?