Contract buy out

Yes, it is. Anyway, slavery was outlawed
A long time ago. Check out West Side Transport out of Cedar Rapids, IA.

 

Also,regarding noncompete nonsense, don't tell the company where you are going. Its none of their business.

 

How much is their weekly minimum pay?

 

I'm adding this to my repertoire. Love it, Dunchues! The same "fertilizer" is used by every company in existence.

 

There are court cases you can go look up where crst has taken drivers or the new carrier they went to to court and won. The non-compete they use is based on they have spent the time and money that is way more than that $4000 to train you in there ways of doing business and because of that contract they have an expectation of you working for them for said term and by leaving you cost them money they won't realize now that you broke the contract. It's been held up in court a few times and that is why most other carries don't like to deal with crst drivers who are still under contract.

When I left them to go work for a better carrier that carrier wasn't going to hire me even though I had fulfilled my contractual obligations to crst. It took me showing them my contract, me email and qc message with my 2 weeks notice and the response from crst that I was good to go before they would hire me. I'm very glad I had that all in writing!

Non-competes do hold up pretty well in courts. I've been on the receiving end of a former employer who tried to bar me from an industry I use to work in saying I couldn't see any of my clients once I had left, regardless of the fact that I had brought them with me. The case went to court and that judge ruled in both of our favor. I got to keep my clients and the ones that I would have made through those relationships but couldn't solicit business from the new clients I created from the employer's connections that I got when I was hired one.

 

Some companies won't touch you while your under contract others don't give a hoot and will tell crst to pound sand. Your going to have to do a lot of research.
I do in fact remember several drivers that were able to find better employment even while under crst slave contract.
If it were me I'd follow the walking directions from the cedar rapids terminal and go talk to that gal. Sounds like they might a place that's tells crst pound sand.
You've got nothing to lose.
Also as others have posted no one at crst can force you to drive a defective truck period.
The law is very much on your side on this issue. Man/ woman up stand your ground

 

Look I know first hand a few things about non-compete clauses, and especially a couple mega carriers who threaten to sue over hiring a driver.

I don't know where these cases are that redoctober is talking about, my lawyer and his firm have only a couple and those the companies have lost. We have dealt with it four times so far, not counting the two lawsuits we had to deal with from the same company, they lost the first one and then filed another one on another driver 5 months later, they lost that one too.

The non-compete clause can't be held up in court for one simple reason, there is no significant monetary damages that any company can demonstrate by having a driver move laterally into another driving position. ALL the lawsuits these companies lost because of this, sometimes it never got past a preliminary hearing.

Another compelling reason why they lost is simply that the activities involved with driving a truck does not involved unique skills that are related to that company in which there is tight competition and the driver would use only those skills at a competitor that would harm the company's competitive advantage.

Following that, the driver is not privy to unique policies or have vital (confidential) information that could be used to harm the companies competitive advantage in the market place.

So I would think that many drivers just accept that non-compete clause means they can't find other work.

This leads me to an important change I would like to see in this industry, the FMCSA create regulations that elimination these BS employment contracts altogether that have non-compete and other clauses that harm the driver's ability to move within the industry.