TDI - Truck Driver Institute - Sanford, Fl
Complaint 16095 Details

I responded by phone to an ad on Craigslist asking for truck driver students. A gentleman called Kenneth Anderson (calling himself Mr. Anderson) set up a personal interview with me. During the interview, he stated that by paying a 50.00 for a background check, all I needed was to have a clean background, and I would go through their 3 week training and then be automatically full time employed (with placement garanteed because more than 6 companies were hiring truck driver students from the TDI-Truck Driver Institute), with excellent pay and benefits, starting a brilliant career. I stated to him that when an offer is too good to be true, one needs to verify and make sure if it is reliable. He assured me that if I had a clean background, I would receive the full pay for my CDL through a loan provided internally by TDI (Truck Driver Institute). IN NO TIME AT ALL, even after I inquired many times, did he say that I would be committed to ANY sort of contract or loan, neither that I needed a good credit or anything of the sort. He insisted that all I needed was to have no criminal records so to be able to drive across the country in all the states because the hiring companies would be paying them back for the tuition provided by them. Because I wanted to know if there was any "catch", I kept asking questions and he then intimidated me by saying that I would not build a brilliant career if I did not trust them. I asked if there would be any contract I would have to sign and he said there was absolutely no signing of any loan because it was all made through them, and that the hiring companies would pay them directly. I PAID the 50.00US$ for the background check because he garanteed me that if I had no bad driving records or criminal records I would be in their student program with all those promises included. Since I have no bad driving record nor any criminal record, I paid for the background. After 24 hrs., he called me saying that I was approved only for 50% of the student loan and therefore I needed a co-signer. When I told him that this was not part of what he had told me, he simply said "ok, goodbye" and hang up on me. I called him back. The man used intimidating arguments to say that I did not understand him. He has posted many ads on Craigslist, the title says "Covenant Transport Student Driver Needed!" and now he is posting as "Stevens Student Driver Needed!". In all his postings he indicates "in agreement with TDI". He business card is from TDI and stated "recruiter". I spent 2 hours travelling to go there, wasted my time and gasoline, paid 50.00 US$ out of my packet, and now he was trying to see if he would get me and a co-signer to get into a loan. HE HAD GARANTEED ME THAT THERE WAS NOT ANY SORT OF LOAN OR CONTRACT TO BE SIGNED BY ME. This lier, called Mr. Kenneth Anderson, at TDI, claims to be retired, very well established, and should not lie to unemployed people, subjecting us to such SCAM, just for the sake of getting money.