[URY914]

A few years ago during the depths of my unemployment, I went to the local trucking "school" to see what it would take to get my CDL. I thought why not it may come in handy some day. I sit down with a guy a few years older than me and I ask a few questions and he gives me the sales pitch.

The cost is $4,000 and takes two weeks. If I'm a vet I can get Uncle Sam to pay for it, if not I can a 'scholarship" from one of a half dozen national trucking companies who's posters line his walls. I'm guaranteed to be hired. But you have to sign a contract to drive for one year for them. Break the contract you have to pay it back. And driving for one year means you are on the road THE ENTIRE YEAR! Because they know if you ever get home you won't come back.

So I start asking a few more questions and I'm beginning to realize they're just a feeder to the truck lines and the truck lines are paying the school for drivers. The school is probably owned by one of these trucking companies. No one really writes the school a check to go thru the classes. He begins to feel that I'm seeing thru their scam and I'm not buying it. He kinda leans in and he tells me that this probably won't workout for me and he recommends I go to a local trade school for my CDL.

Thank you, have a nice day.

As I walk out there a two guys in their 20's walking in the door. They will buy it hook, line and sinker.