Need some major advice

Did he get trained through CRST? Did he sign a contract with them?

If the answer is "YES" to any of the above, then it might get expensive to leave.

 

More then likely, any company he goes with will require him to do another DOT physical, regardless of the expiration date of his current one. Lonesome is correct about the expense....leaving so soon might be worse then hanging in there a little longer. I've made that mistake before.

 

CRST to Weiner ? stay at crst

 

well, recruiters aren't paid to make sense you know..

 

when you sign up for a year commitment with training
it is a very bad idea to renege on your end of the deal
and expect good results
but this is just how grownups act but maybe not so much anymore

 

If he only has "3 months experience, including schooling and whatnot"...then he needs to stick with it. If he didn't go to a much better company to begin with then why would it happen now? I called CRST and fortunately my driving record was bad enough that I ended up with a much better company...if that makes any sense.

 

I might have heard at counter that they wont release any info on drivers till they paid off all $ from school fees. so you cant leave.

 

I would recommend in the strongest possible terms that he stick it out to have at least 6 months experience, and preferably a year, before leaving CRST. Until he has 6 months experience it is likely that any new company would need to put him through full blown training all over again. After 12 months experience with no problems then there are a wide range of companies that will hire him as an experienced driver. Then it would simply be a matter of going through a few days orientation and get right into a truck, making money at a higher level than as a newbie.

If you go to any truck stop and look through all the publications in the magazine rack at the door, you will see advertisements from dozens or hundreds of trucking companies. There are a select few that will hire newbies. Some will hire only with 6 months experience. By the time you have a year experience, then your opportunities (and paycheck) increase. After 2 or 3 years experience of trouble free driving your doors are wide open.

I always reflect back on the advise my dad gave me. "Never take a job with the idea in mind that you are going to quit if the going gets rough. Always make a commitment to yourself that you will stay at least a year. Every job will have problems, just like every marriage has problems. Once you quit on a job, then quitting on the next job gets easier, and then you are going to develop a quitter's outlook on life... always looking for a reason to quit."

I've lived by that wisdom and it's served me well.