Are recruiters held liable of what they tell you?

Nothing u can do

 

A lot of recruiters are paid to recruit drivers and they paint you a pretty picture to get you hooked and after you get to orientation you find out the truth. You will probably never see recruiter anyhow. Now that being said not all recruiters are that way just most of them.

 

especially when you go on with one of those companies that dont even do background checks until you get to "orientation", i got a call and they didnt even ask a single question, just when would you like to come... i was like um did you do my background? nope, they do it on the spot... reminded me of when I was a recruiter in the military at the processing station, people sitting all over the place for hours waiting for paperwork to come back when all that stuff should have really been done prior to you getting there... thats not orientation

 

I wouldn't say there's nothing you can do. We need truth-in-recruiting. A recruiter's company should not only be liable, certain disclosures should be required. Turnover rate of new drivers. Average miles for new drivers. Average weekly pay for new drivers. Average weekly pay per hour based on on-duty hours. This whole business of 'free time' that drivers donate to mega companies for loading/unloading, scaling, breakdowns, even fueling needs to go bye-bye. Paying by mile or percentage is otherwise fine.

The info on driver turnover and pay should be public, just like CSA.

drums, as a nurse you can close your eyes, throw a dart at a map, work anywhere. And get paid well. I'm concerned. I see you have started a flurry of interesting threads. Very busy gal. Central Arizona College has a heavy equipment mechanic/operator training that includes CDL with a two-year nationally-recognized certificate. Young folks go in after high school and come out two (2) years later with $50K job.

Why not get a traveling assignment near Grande Vista and explore that? I'm concerned. CAC is very inexpensive once you're a resident.

 

My Mom and sisters were nurses, retired and disabled now. My 91-year-old Mom's at the VA Memory Care Unit in West LA. Served in occupied Germany for a short time as a Second Lieutenant RN. Interestingly, when I decided to drive truck way back when, it was the one thing she said she envied. She would liked to have had the opportunity to do that.

And to my surprise, she was an inspiration to at least one cousin who is a very sharp RN and department head back in Minnesota today.

Trucking's something different, all right. When you read horror-threads here, though, don't make the mistake of thinking, 'How bad can it really be?' Does Hubby plan to drive with you? That MIGHT make a big difference. Also, the health consequences for trucking are even greater than nursing.

See: http://www.uncg.edu/phe/faculty/apostolopoulos/AAOHNJ.pdf (Worksite-Induced Morbidities Among Truck Drivers in the US--truncated life expectancy, mental and psychological issues, etc.

A thread here cites research to 4x more incidence of aggressive prostate cancers in truck drivers: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...7-la-times-truck-drivers-risk-aggressive.html

As for recruiters, they are paid salespeople in the marketing end of trucking--marketing jobs with 100% turnover to truck drivers. Go with the wrong outfit and you'll redefine what only caring about the $$ means. A large portion of truck drivers do not have other, better career options, got off food stamps, poverty, the ghetto, the barrio, the neighborhood thru trucking.

And they're not looking back.

 

only in black and white and if they won't print and sign it ain't real

 

Recruiters are paid to recruit,not tell the truth.Kind of like along the same lines as politicians.They're going to tell you what you wanna hear,anything to get you onboard so they get that commission for hiring another sucker..This is where you ask as many questions as possible.Write down a list of questions before calling.If recuiter dances around your question then tell him or her you're not interested and look elsewhere.Recruiters are going to lie otherwise they would get no one to drive for that company.The trucking industry is a very lieing profession.You can either suck it up and deal with it or keep trying till you find an honest company,which will never happen.This is why you do your research before applying to any company.Drivers know the real deal,not recruiters.Keep in mind most recruiters never seen the inside of a trk so they don't know what that company is like.They have everything memorized.JBHUNT I would say has the most aggressive recruiters.You fill out an online app and for the next week you'll get different recruiters calling reading from the same script.You're not going to find a persfect company but there are ones better then the other.You just have to look.