Hirschbach threatens to file lawsuits to keep drivers from leaving

I did 3 months. What was ur experience? Any funny stories?

 

Late to the game here... We get these occasionally, and we toss them in the trash. After all, we don't have a contract with Hirschbach (or CRST, or anyone else sending these BS letters), therefore we are not bound by any contract signed by another party.

 

I think if a company is that worried about drivers getting fed up & leaving, or complaining about them online then maybe companies need to do a better job of listening to driver concerns or problems instead of resorting to threatening bs like this. Unfortunately these training companies think drivers are nothing but peices of meat to be replaced. Those training companies have already done enough to destroy this industry’s reputation and reduced a once respectable occupation to something to be abhorred.

 

So their company has the audacity to send what? Some type of cease and desist? Wow, a new low and reeking of desperation to the point of being vindictive to the driver.

I was attempting to infer that the now trained driver bailing on said training company should be on the hook for contractual obligations related to said training. Good for you and your company for giving these people a chance at a better life.

 

Egggggzactly......

 

If they think those "contractual obligations" will stand up in court, they are free to hire a lawyer, sue the guy, fight over venue (cuz the driver prolly lives like 1,200 mi. away from the company HQ), risk losing, and if they lose they gotta pay their own lawyer AND the driver's lawyer and even if they win, the driver mite have little to no assets to seize, so then they gotta get a judgement, and try to place some kinda lien on his future wages, and then enforce that in court continuously until the "debt" is paid off...

on and on it goes, which is why that company didn't even have a lawyer serve the documents formally, they just fired off an email !

oh! and they risk the driver counter-suing for violation of some labor rights law in his state of residence or the state the company is based in, which will drive up the cost of enforcing those "obligations" even further.

 

I think pretty spot on and some excellent points.

I actually am choosing to pay mine as i found the experience much more valuable than wasting a semester in tech school at 3x the cost. I could probably get them on not fulfilling their contractual obligation to pay detention pay when they said they would otr but i didn't read the fine print. I didn't have the time in the training process.

 

Welcome to the Trucking industry! It’s obvious you don’t know nothing yet! You are free to go somewhere else but be prepared…. You’re gonna have to pay for the truck school training part!

 

Not necessarily. Ask me how I know

 

How do you know?