Going to Truck Driving School
Are you all signed up and ready to go to truck driving school? You are probably excited about starting your new career in the trucking industry right? Now if all the stars and planets are aligned just right for you it will all work out and I hope it does. What could go wrong? You have a trucking company that has offered to pay for your training and they even have a job waiting for you when you graduate the truck driving school. Sounds great!
I have one question that pops into my mind that I would like to ask you real quick. What happens if you are not performing as well as the other students when you get to that truck driving school? Will they spend a little extra time trying to help you out? Maybe they will slow down the training so you will be able to keep up. The more realistic answer is you will be told that you are not keeping up and they will send you home. That would be bad enough all on its own but then you get the bill! What bill you ask? The one for the training you did complete.
Even though a trucking company is paying for your CDL training you will be required to sign some form of contract. In the fine print of this contract you will find that they will only pay for your training upon successful graduation of the training and with a commitment to work for them for a specific period of time. Failure to successfully complete the truck driver training program will put the cost of everything up to that point in your pocket book.
This would probably not even be something to worry about if a trucking company sent 50 people to school and needed 50 drivers. In reality they probably send 50 to school and only need 31 drivers. 19 Drivers will be cut in this scenario regardless to obtain the best of the class to drive their trucks. One might even also assume this is done on a regular basis to help fund the truck driving school. Could it be possible that what they charge the 19 they let go or kick out could help pay for what the company spent training the 31? Sounds like a well thought out scheme to screw people who need a job and are in a vulnerable situation to me. They would not do that would they? I sure hope not! Well, either way, it’s something to think about. Good luck to you and your new career after training at a truck driving school !
