Kjones
Barling,#2Consumer Suggestion
Fri, May 22, 2009
Please note that no truck driving school is DOT regulated and can and WILL tell you whatever you want to hear to get you to sign on the bottom line. DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING until you have filled out as many apps as you can and gotten plenty of prehire letters. Be honest on your app. Most companies do not run your reports until you are about to schedule for orientation. Your app is all they go by. If you lie and get approved, then call to schedule and something shows on your reports, you only have you to blame. Yes, sometimes you can be approved and then unapproved for many different reasons. Alot of times the insurance industry dictates what type of applicant a company can hire. Yes there are dishonest recruiters. Mostly they are the ones getting a bonus for getting you in the door whether you can be hired or not. Not all companies offer bonuses to their recruiters. The recruiter is the point of contact, not the decision maker. Most times, their hearts do go out to these guys. Their hands are tied and they can do nothing. Remember also that while you are job searching, that even though these recruiters may still have their jobs, their husbands and wives may not. Therefore, they can sympathize with these situations. They do not always agree with or like the way things are done. But business is business and it is rarely anything personal. Thank you.
Anonymous
Harrison Township,#3Consumer Comment
Sat, May 16, 2009
Unfortunately this story is fairly common. The author is correct with respect to jobs in Michigan - they are difficult to find. Regarding point (1), this means as long as a school or company is involved with Michigan Works!, the process described here and elsewhere will continue and why would it not since the state is relieved of an unemployment obligation and the so-called school (or company that is also a school) places the graduate somewhere, if albeit for 24 hours, and they are now relieved of an obligation as well. I have yet to see a game anything like it: Authorized by the state, unregulated, manipulative, at times malicious, and by observations viewed online and elswhere, fully takes advantage of the undereducated, unwary masses who are actually looking for a way to survive in the working world in any capacity whatsoever. In my view, the truck driver school industry as well as many companies involved with these schools (particularly the ones who get a kick-back per graduate student) is a disgrace. It appears that fraud is tolerated and ignored. One would think, perhaps, incidents such as: What happened at Swift's Memphis Terminal, the Illinois Secretary of State's s****.?
Ken
Clinton,#4Consumer Comment
Sun, April 19, 2009
Part of the problem right now is the economy...even drivers with a dozen or more years under the wheel can't find work...ANY kind of trucking work. And schools are slammed with applicants because it is a relatively quick way to at least make a few dollars for both the school and the (eventual) driver. But then all these grads can't find a job in the industry. It's a catch-22. As far as the Werner experience is concerned...I'm really sorry this happened to you. Obviously, you're not the first, nor will you be the last. All I can encourage you to do is hang in there. Good luck!