Wel Companies

The militatry, manufacturing, construction, and many other blue collar jobs will pay you while they train you.

How many other careers expect you to be gone 7 days to 1 day at home, live out of the back of a truck, and work a ton of hours for which you're not compensated? Those "escrow accounts" are ripoffs.

 

I went to a terrible carrier, tthen a good company, then got rear ended and fired. I start orientation in a few hours with another company today. I'm going to be a tanker yanker. Enjoy Summer in Wisconsin, Winter is a different story.

 

In which you can't just up and quit the military. Everyone knows a head of time how long there going to be out so whats the deal there.

 

Most companies recover their "stranded costs" of initial hiring by paying lower par for 6 months or so...many also pay something towards your CDL schooling....like $200 per month.
To make it so you have a reason to stick with a company that may be treating you poorly by trying to get you to stay to get your $50 a week escrow holdings back seem to be a bit odd...
good companies often have stacks of resumes, and they know if they treat you right, you WILL STAY...if you do leave, it just that trucking was not for you.
The $50 a week holdback just seems to be yet another way to tilt the scales in the companies favor, weakening a newbie's postion, giving them little choice but to stay put...
I'm not sure how the system works at WEL , but without an insider posting better info, it seems sketchy.

 

Water Penguin, Thanks for your input, I will be withdrawing my app. I have no use to be a consitant loader too unless its flatbed.

 

Just pointing out that there are other industries that will pay for your training. If Wel was such a good company, most of its employees would recognize that, and Wel wouldn't have to take a portion of all of the newbs' paychecks in order to cover the expenses of the few washouts.

 

Im not saying wel is a good or bad company. I was just saying that someone has to pay for the schooling and it should be the person getting it. I will say this theres no where near the bad info on this company as they are others. All companies have good and bad things , Im sure that wel tells the students about the 50.00 upfront so if they choose to go with them they shouldn't complain about it.... Back when i got my cdl and was taught to drive there was none of this kind of stuff and i know its hard out there in the real world but nothings free atleast not where im from. Maybe all the students should go and pay there complete way at a school then go to work at a company. Lets see how many new drivers we have then.