Dg Fleet Breaking My Contract?

I transfered from warehouse to fleet through the cdl program with DollarG, passed the school easy, they told me I had to do 6 weeks of training before I could start on my own...then gave me another trainer and made it 8 weeks ... Then gave me ANOTHER trainer and made it 10 weeks... Then didnt tell me anything for a week until I went up there in person and then they told me that due to things going on in fleet and observations made by other drivers they didn't want me on team and said I could resign or see if I could get my job back in warehouse. I feel very wronged and have felt that way since week 7, did they do me wrong? Did they break contract? One of my trainers said I did good, I haven't told the other two because they were kinda *******s , thank you

Well none of us know what your contract says so we cannot make any judgements there.

You may want to see if the warehouse is willing to bring you back in while your sorting it out.

My guess is they don’t have enough work and are playing games if you did everything well.

I transfered from warehouse to fleet through the cdl program with DollarG, passed the school easy, they told me I had to do 6 weeks of training before I could start on my own...then gave me another trainer and made it 8 weeks ... Then gave me ANOTHER trainer and made it 10 weeks... Then didnt tell me anything for a week until I went up there in person and then they told me that due to things going on in fleet and observations made by other drivers they didn't want me on team and said I could resign or see if I could get my job back in warehouse. I feel very wronged and have felt that way since week 7, did they do me wrong? Did they break contract? One of my trainers said I did good, I haven't told the other two because they were kinda *******s , thank you

What you need to do is to, very calmly, very professionally, and very humbly, go back "up there" and ask them to explain to you, specifically, what you did wrong. This is the only way you're going to get anything positive out of this experience. There is a reason why they don't want you on the team and for the sake of your career as a driver, you need to find out what that reason is, own it, correct it, and move forward.

This is the best advice I can give.

There's half a story here, Seth. Six weeks of training before they let you out on your own is a standard thing. Then you wrote that you were "recycled" through two additional trainers, but you haven't explained why.

I have to assume there were problems in how you handled the job, either from misunderstanding, missed training, or worse, some problems with your attitude.

Fill in those blanks and you'll get better advice.

There's half a story here, Seth. Six weeks of training before they let you out on your own is a standard thing. Then you wrote that you were "recycled" through two additional trainers, but you haven't explained why.

I have to assume there were problems in how you handled the job, either from misunderstanding, missed training, or worse, some problems with your attitude.

Fill in those blanks and you'll get better advice.

I don’t know your situation but It is very unusual for them to take you off the account.

Will you be expected to repay the cost of the cdl school you went to? I’m assuming road master. These are questions you might want to ask.

Ask yourself why you were given so many trainers. Was there any situations that they felt were a red flag such as too much time off during training? Were there any incidents involving property damage or damage to the truck? Were there any customer incidents? Were you not able to unload the trailers in a timely manner? I am not saying any of those things happened but those are general reasons that things won’t work on the dg account.

Right or wrong that whole training period is an extended job interview for any company. As stated above I would go back and try to at least find out the reasons why if you don’t already know.

As far as breaking a contract I am not sure. But doubt it. I would suggest you try other companies. Apply everywhere and see who bites. Just be completely honest about anything that happened with dg with your recruiter.

Good luck and be safe out there!

From Papa Pig:

breaking a contract ... try other companies

How about that when any company you apply to finds you tried to break out of a contract, they put your application in the round file. You would be bringing baggage with you they don't want to deal with.

I guess I don’t understand and sorry to sound ignorant here but how were you under contract with Dollar G? It’s my understanding all of their transportation is done by other carriers. Schneider and Werner are the huge carriers of them.

From Papa Pig:

breaking a contract ... try other companies

How about that when any company you apply to finds you tried to break out of a contract, they put your application in the round file.

Errol I don’t think the question is him breaking a contract but wondering if them not continuing his services is them breaking a contract.

Nick. While dollar General does use bigger carriers like Werner, Schneider, etc to haul their freight they have an expanding private fleet. Kind of like how Walmart or Publix has their own trucks but uses outside carriers for a lot of the workload. They also have a program that will allow warehouse workers to sign a contract and they will pay for their cdl if they haul and unload dollar General freight for a certain amount of time. I personally thought that was awesome because I used to get so mad at the warehouse for how badly they loaded the trailers. Almost like justice and now you get to be in the receiving end of those badly loaded trailers 😂. Either way I have my suspicions of why this arrangement didn’t work but that’s not my place. Our job now is to try and advise and help this driver move on.

From Papa Pig:

breaking a contract ... try other companies

How about that when any company you apply to finds you tried to break out of a contract, they put your application in the round file.

Errol I don’t think the question is him breaking a contract but wondering if them not continuing his services is them breaking a contract.

Nick. While dollar General does use bigger carriers like Werner, Schneider, etc to haul their freight they have an expanding private fleet. Kind of like how Walmart or Publix has their own trucks but uses outside carriers for a lot of the workload. They also have a program that will allow warehouse workers to sign a contract and they will pay for their cdl if they haul and unload dollar General freight for a certain amount of time. I personally thought that was awesome because I used to get so mad at the warehouse for how badly they loaded the trailers. Almost like justice and now you get to be in the receiving end of those badly loaded trailers 😂. Either way I have my suspicions of why this arrangement didn’t work but that’s not my place. Our job now is to try and advise and help this driver move on.

Gotcha, I didn’t know they were expanding their own fleet! I’m at Schneider so obviously I know how big of a customer/contract it is for us.

OP Seth said:

I transfered from warehouse to fleet through the cdl program with DollarG

So the plan was to move from DG warehouse to DG trans. He took training, went on to road training, but had to go though three trainers then

did they do me wrong? Did they break contract?

So Seth thinks Dollar General is the side tearing up the contract. That's why I asked to hear how Seth did on his training. DG isn't about to dump the average noob driver for "no reason". So I want to know what Seth did that would cause DG to tell Seth "fuggetaboutit".

So Seth, if you're still checking in, what are some problems you were facing on your training runs?