Starting with Roehl in February

Hi I'm a student myself and from what I've heard and seen and have been taught not only do companies give you the option to train with the same sex you will usually have a hard time finding a trainer of the opposite sex to train a female, it has nothing to do with female querks but mostly protection it's called CMA cover my ### a lot of people are more afraid of sexual harassment charges than anything else, they just typically don't want to take the risk of pissin there trainee off and then that trainee lashes out and says something untrue and possibly cost them there job

 

Nov 28th 2016.

Here's a followup. Roehl is after me for the full $5000 for training since I did not complete the course and 120,000 miles of driving. Kind of bummed about this. Not sure how much they lost on this. I earned one week of pay during this week of training but they kept the whole thing which I accepted but now they want the full tuition from me.

Read your contract word for word.

 

Wait, you didn't finish the training? The training they are trying to have you pay for?

Ed

 

Exactly. The lady on the phone said, no use going to a lawyer, I had signed the contract. I am in the process of reading it word for word. She said I had effectively signed for a loan. So I asked who got the money for the loan since I never saw a penny of it. If Roehl got it then they pocketed 3 weeks of the money and my first weeks pay. Doesn't make sense.

 

Here's the thing. Somewhere in the contract it states what you got for agreeing to pay the loan back and driving the miles. Every contract has to have this. A contract where one side gets something and the other gets nothing is not a legal contract. Whether it's your choice, or theirs, you did not receive your end of the contract. There is no way in hell this would stand up in a court.

Here's a simple quote from the Cornell law website "To be legally binding as a contract, a promise must be exchanged for adequate consideration. Adequate consideration is a benefit or detriment which a party receives which reasonably and fairly induces them to make the promise/contract."

In this case you made a "promise" to pay back the loan and drive 120 000 miles for "consideration" which is training and to obtain a CDL license. You did not receive the consideration, therefore they can not hold you to the promise.

Now of course they say don't go to a lawyer. They know they'll lose. Had you completed the training and got your CDL, different story.

Worse case, you go see a lawyer, pay him a couple hundred bucks to send them a letter, they will cancel the contract and it's over.

Best case, you send them a letter yourself stating you aren't going to pay for good or services you didn't receive and you'll be happy to get a lawyer involved if needed, and they let it go.

As a side note, much of contract law is a state consideration, but there are basics that are not regulated by the state but by general, or common law.


Ed

 

You have given me hope brother. Thanks.

 

The $500 a week is something correct ?

 

What I read and signed during the application said that if you don't complete training you don't owe anything so definitely look into that.

 

I'm not sure what you're getting at here.


Ed