Avoid at all cost trucking company training

The word enslaved is unnecessarily inflammatory to some here.

We have what is called a 13th Amendment. A worker who willingly indentures him or herself and labors against future productivity to repay a company that goes into debt for this worker is absolutely legal and specifically NOT enslavement.

Neither slavery or involuntary servitude shall exist anywhere in the USA or its associated colonies etc without having already been convicted as part of a crime.

Now the old style work situation of Indentured For a period of 7 years or whatever it was back in the Colonial Days of America (around 1580 through 1790 roughly) that does not exist anymore. If a parent would hand a child to a employer before age of adulthood would probably see that same parent arrested today.

Workers who voluntarily sign a promissary note borrowing money to repay later either by work completed over time or instantly due and payable in full if dismissed, quit, fired with or without cause etc, sick and unable to continue and who knows what else.

I did not think that this was a real problem in my time. You got Uncle Sam to hand you 2500 dollars or whtaever it was and went to school to get that CDL. Once you had that CDL then your future belongs to you. However you can succeed or fail. It's up to you.

Now.

The recent 15 years or so.. I have begun to consider a theory that companies that gin up mountains of BS in legalese to bind workers to serious amounts of money to get training that really does not amount to a hill of beans at today's commodity pricing.

I think the companies have found a way to legally take a worker who is not too bright and is in need of mommy or pop pop to hold his or her hands and sign some papers to now be indebited to said company who is raking in mountains of money. Who cares if 10,000 trainees did not successfully complete the final road test prior to hiring? They all probably collectively owe more due and payable today than you would see all year with 10,000 trailers running revenue freight all over the USA every day.

 

2,435,693,287,404...............

 

Major debt?

Give me a break.

If they are filing bankruptcy, then they have other issues than trucking and trucking is their desperation move to get their life fixed.

 

You aren't a slave. Just quit and go somewhere else....

Sure, they might want thier money, so what. The other places want thier money too.

Do you want to bail with "some" experience and a CDL, or no experience and a CDL. How much did thoes two choices cost, what's the difference between them?


Tell you what. Company training knows you will be driving thier trucks. The other places won't care, not thier problem anymore. What does that say?

 

What’s the issue with company training? You’re going out with their trainer regardless, and the cost is the same or less.
Find a company that pays a good rookie CPM and buckle up the first year. However, use the smallest Megan you can find.
You will lose more money getting a company physical than you will driving for a year.

 

I'm mostly scared how I'm supposed to pay bills at home. I should be a great candidate. I'm divorced. My kids are grown. I know I love driving because I uber for hours. I drove 12 hours to get my suspension fixed in my car. I like driving. But i don't know how I'm going to drop having an income to get started. It doesn't seem possible.