has anyone duped drivers solutions?

Just asking cause here's the dealio. Sign up for company sponsored training. Go to training and I'm now unemployed for 3 weeks while going through school. I'm not earning a dime. I pass the test the first try. I'm ready to go to work. I assume there will be a one week wait to go to orientation with the mega carrier and guess what. I'm told that I'm sitting home two and a half weeks with no job and no pay. Then I get a call to go and get my bus ticket. I live 5 hours from the destination. I am given a ticket for a 20 hour bus ride with two layovers. The option is available for a 10 hour bus ride for the same price but I assume that they don't want to pay for the extra night at the hotel. They would rather have me sitting at a greyhound station for hours waiting for a bus. Meanwhile, I find a company that is 25 miles from my house and hires recent grads. It's been around for 32 years and has about 50 trucks. Pay is better per mile and they pay training pay. Mileage pay is like 8 cents a mile higher to start. I'm wanting opinions on dumping mega carrier and making a payment arrangement with drivers solutions. I can afford a decent payment and am not worried about credit damage. I have some already. what would you do? Go with mega carrier that doesn't give a flying crap if I'm sitting on my rear starving. They will pay less and I will be just a number to them. Or go with the smaller company close to home that pays a little better and will know me as a driver. Has anyone else dumped the solutions and had to deal with them?

 

That's a good point because they did keep my graduation certificate at the school. Good question to bring up if they need it. I don't think they will. I think they just want the cdl. They have a training program for inexperienced drivers.

 

Good point.

 

should anyone ever wonder if it is possible to change your mind and go to a different carrier let me tell you that it isn't easy. i spoke to the smaller carrier and it is a dream job. it's everything I'm looking for better pay, better hometime, and being a name not a number. i visited them and they were very interested in hiring me. then they ran the application past their insurance company and it seems it's a no go. here's how it works...if you pay for your schooling then you would sit right beside me and learn exactly the same thing in exactly the same amount of time and recieve your graduation certificate. i however (according to drivers solutions) am not fully trained because i didn't finish the otr phase of the training and will not receive my certificate until i do so. the school and drivers solutions will hold onto your transcripts like it's the hope diamond. they ain't releasing nothing. without some form of proof that you went through the 120 hours training then the smaller carrier's insurance company doesn't want to cover you. even though i would be going through another 240 hours training before the small company will let me drive alone. doesn't make sense to me but apparantly ds has run into this before and knows how to shut it down. i don't know how it benefits them to keep me from working because i was planning on paying them back within a year anyway. the small carrier is trying to find a work around but probably won't be able to.