WIA - a way to pay for your way!

One more thing WIA money is also use to retrain people to be nurses and hundreds of other professions. The number of people using it to become truck drivers is actually a really small number.

Those that do actually get to go to better schools who teach people to be good drivers and not just pass a test. Now if you'd prefer these same people to head off to CR England and learn to pass a test let me know what company you work for so I can stay away from you..

Lastly, I sincerely hope you never have to us the very services you are calling people names for using. Before you sprout off you never will.. Never say Never.. Life has a way of humbling the arrogant..

 

I don't since I did it on my own while in college..

Not sure what flaming means but I'm very very consistent with all of my posts.. I tell it like I see it and if someone is offended.. sorry I guess.. I'm very consistent in regards to wages - maybe read a few of my older posts and you'll see that whether you agree or not..

My attitude is a product of my wages being driven down by people entering the industry who are willing to work for nothing.. Why pay me or a FedEx Freight driver what we make when a mega carrier will come in with a student and "trainer" hauling that freight for less than we can with our own drivers, trucks, and fuel.. Another thing that soured me was having my truck side-swiped in my own yard by a sub-service driver that was supposed to be at another terminal altogether but he "knew where this one was". Don't tell me about my attitude till you've done this for at least a year or so..

I don't have a dispatcher. I show up and am handed my hooks for the run I bid. I have a great rep with supervisors at the hub I run as do most all of us from my home terminal.. I work hard on the dock as do most of my co-workers.. We gotta get those sub-service vans rolling so they're only a day late instead of two right......

You should consider the source.. Been at this company for over 7 years and have seen LTL wages go down the tubes as more and more new drivers enter the field and work for nothing till they quit 6 months in.. It is what it is man......

 

I was lucky to get a grant from my county in 2003 to go to CDL school. There's no way I would've been able to afford the $4500 on my own. The instructors were experienced and professional, the equipment was a bit, um... used, but I learned a lot and they got me a good job.

Seven years later, I find out I need this 'refresher course' because I have no recent tractor trailer experience. Thanks to this thread, I looked up WIA and contacted my local job services office. Going this week to see if I can get funding for the $1600 for the 40 hour course. I could probably afford to pay it this time around, but then I'd have no money to get me through the time I left my current job, attended the course, went through orientation for whichever company, and started earning at least something of a paycheck.

Thanks for the info!! I hope it works out!

 

This is because someone used WIA money? The chances of someone using WIA money vs the person getting a company paid "free ride" leaving in 6 months are probably slim.

You need to look past your blinders and see that EVERY job sector is losing revenue and cutting wages.

Don't blame people actually trying to find jobs just because you are bitter with the downfall of our economy.

 

I'm not bitter about anything man.. I do however have a very hard time losing around $700 per week in taxes only to find out a portion of that money is funding something that's driving the race to the bottom..

Drive for a little while then get back to me - maybe after the first time the company sits you at a truck stop for the weekend but tells you that you can't idle because it will cost them fuel.. You're sitting there to pick up maybe a FedEx Freight load making .30 instead of him making .56 on Monday morning..

#### man.. Don't tell me anything about this ridiculous industry till you've done it.. Maybe 10 years in you'll disagree with me as many do but till then don't tell me I'm bitter..

 

Agreed....all job sectors are experiencing this. I came out of the health care field where the state of Indiana did funding cuts this year...which affected my pay, holiday time was eliminated, personal days eliminated, bonuses gone, overtime gone...and eventually the company closed its doors.The worst part is that in my particular line of work, working with adults with disabilities, companies that provide these services are seeking out 8.00/hr workers with absolutely no experience in place of very well experienced folks because they didn't want to pay more money. I made more money 18 years ago in the same field of work that I just finished up in...I'd say its time for a career change.
Another example, my wife works in a factory...Factories are beginning to hire through temp agencies(which I think are a blight on America). They hire through temp agencies so that they don't have to pay benefits and the temp workers cannot be unionized.
America is quietly experiencing a crisis...and I don't think many folks realize how deep or pervasive it really is.

 

One more time.. The WIA money does NOT come from your $700 in taxes. It comes from the Unemployment insurance your EMPLOYER has to pay for EVERY employee.

One more time I say: Do you prefer to have someone collecting public assistance then to have them back into the workforce? Furthermore, most people use WIA money to get jobs in more lucrative endeavors.

Eight years ago the option to have enough money to pay your own way was easily obtainable. In today's economy it's not.

 

It is what I used. I figured it was about time I got something for all of the taxes I have paid since I was 16.

 

you know that the companys take advantage of hard times to drive the wages down

you bid for your runs? them bid them at a rate you can live on or dont take them


you work hard on the docks?----you a dock worker or a driver? if your doing both then your part of the problem with wages being driven down in the country, so dont blame it on the guy getting a grant and trying to better his self in the hard times that we are having in this economy

if your not happy after 7 years maybe its time to look into another company or another field of work