Quitting during orientation?

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  1. Mototom

    Mototom Road Train Member

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    Straight up they lied and wanted me to run illegal. I didn’t but just the fact they would push like that and put my record at risk.
    Today would have been my last day of orientation.
     
    Mototom, Mar 26, 2020
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    On to the next. They won’t care if you quit, so neither should you.
     
    Hazmat Cat, Mar 26, 2020
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    That’s only if you were paid.
    If you were never paid, you never worked there.
     
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    When did FMCSA ever care about pay? One is hired when the company says one is hired. Usually that includes orientation.
     
    ZVar, Mar 26, 2020
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    Any company I’ve ever talked to has always stated you are not hired until you finish orientation.
    If it’s a job the moment you arrive then you are owed wages for every day if orientation
     
    Aamcotrans, Mar 26, 2020
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    Again, what regulation states that? Here's a hint. There isn't one.
     
    ZVar, Mar 26, 2020
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    walk where?
     
    jeff18, Mar 26, 2020
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    how did you know before the end of orientation? that they wanted you to not follow hos?
     
    jeff18, Mar 26, 2020
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  9. Mototom

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    It’s not about HOS it’s about false logs. They wanted me to run without setting me up on the ELD.
    The exemption is 150air miles. I would have been running well over that.
     
    Mototom, Mar 26, 2020
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    OK. you said your orientation is driving 12 days at $150/per day. I said, is it orientation or training ? Any orientation I ever attended was processing the new hire in plus a road/wee-wee test. At the end of orientation you will roll off the lot in a truck and you are officially hired. Until you sign paperwork, you are not hired. I suppose one could argue just exactly when am I hired ? Is it when I get my physical back or when I sign my W-4 form or when I climb abord my new 2021 Pete with shiny new rims? Luck to ya'
     
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