My husband saw an ad for Swift Transportation on the internet. And at the time he was looking for a trucking company that would train him and give him his CDL. So when he seen Swift he gave them a call. They set him up with an appointment to come to Tennessee for his orientation and traning. The traning was a 6 week course. He was told that he would get PAID training and paid transportation to and from there.
So he left for Tennessee two days after Thanksgiving of 2005. At the time we lived in Georgia so he thought that it would be best for our daughter and I to come to Pennsylvania and stay with my mom until his training was over. So our daughter and I left for Pennsylvania the day after Thanksgiving.
When he got to Tennessee things were going great.in his last week of training he had received his CDL permit. Since it was time for Christmas everyone got to go home for a week for christmas and that was also paid for. Before he left to go home for christmas he was told that they had several hundred students and not enough mentor's. So when he got back he would most likely be sent back home and that he would have to pay his way back home. And if he got called back when a mentor was available that he would have to pay his way BACK there to finish out his traning.
After finding out that if he would have gotten sent back home it could have taken up to a year for them to get him a mentor. And once they found him one he would have not only had to pay his way back but he would have had to pay for his own lodging and food. Which without a job and no paid traning he did not have the money for all of that. So he decided not to go back. So now after almost a year a man from Swift is calling his parents in Georgia and his cell phone harassing him to pay the $3,000 dollars for the schooling.
My husband feels that he was lied to and ripped off so he feels that he shouldn't have to pay the student loan. For a class that he did not finish. And wouldn't have been able to finish because there were not enough mentors for all students.
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