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Complaint Review: TDI Truck Driver Institute

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  • Submitted: Mon, August 29, 2011
  • Updated: Tue, January 29, 2013

  • Reported By: Marcia — Orlando Florida United States of America
TDI Truck Driver Institute
3700 St. Johns Pkwy Sanford, Florida United States of America

TDI Truck Driver Institute Mr. Kenneth Anderson Lies, grabs your money, then tries to make you sign a loan, promising a job. Takes advantage of unemployed people Sanford, Florida

*Consumer Comment: re: not a true ripoff

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This gentleman advertised a job on craigslist. I called. He set up an interview with me. He garanteed me 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), full time, with excellent pay and benefits. 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. I believe he thought I was stupid because I am a woman and I am not a native English speaker. As I kept asking questions to check the reliability of his offer, he intimidated me saying that I could not build a brilliant career through them if I did not look at things positively and trusted them. I can communicate extremely well in English and perfectly understood his words. Hadn't he garanteed me that all I needed was a good driving record, I would not have gotten into this. 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. 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. He then called me, informing me 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". I called him back. When I inquired about his lies, he dared to say that I had misunderstood him, that there is no such a thing as one studying there without a 6,000.00 pay and that I needed to put 50% of the course (3.500,00US$) down and sign a loan, or, otherwise, have a co-signer. This man presents himself with very strong, even intimidating arguments as to guide you through his lies. I spent 2 hours travelling to go there, wasted my time and gasoline, he literally lied to me, grabbed 50.00 US$ out of my packet, and then tried to see if he would get me and a co-signer to sign a thousands of dollars loan. HE HAD GARANTEED ME THAT THERE WAS NOT ANY SORT OF LOAN OR CONTRACT TO BE SIGNED BY ME, AND THAT ALL I NEEDED WAS A GOOD DRIVING RECORD. This lier, called Mr. Kenneth Anderson, at TDI, who claims to be a very successful retired man, uses expertise to lie and ommit just to steal people's time, energy and money, taking advantage of the unemployed. He has been advertising this scam as a "great opportunity" all over on Craigslist and other job search websites. He also places a phone number that is different from the TDI telephone number. That is also something I cjhecked before going to the interview, as I called the TDI and asked them if they knew hoim, and they confirmed that he is one of their recuriters. When I inquired about the phone number being different, they stated that it was because he also was a recruiter for Covenant Transport company. It was all very disappointing to me because I have always wanted to be a truck driver student and I used to admire the TDI company. They have pictures all over their walls and they convince you that their graduates are extremely successful. This man certainly uses this as one of his greates arguments to lie to people, as he lied to me.

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#1 Consumer Comment

re: not a true ripoff

AUTHOR: Trucker James - (United States of America)

 hi my name is james lang and this person that wrote this report is a lier. truck driver institute is the best cdl training school in the nation. this person most likely did a background check ,like I did when i went there for my training. what is uphappy about is he did not qualify for a industry hireing program ,which mean he would not get a job. people like this dont always tell the other side of the story. if you go to the florida state website and check the department of education you will find out that truck driver institute is rated number one in the state of florida.if you call the better business in sanford you will also find that the school mr. anderson is rated aaa rating with the better busniess  bureau they are listed aaa. The biggest reason I'am taking the time to write this is mr. anderson was my recruiter and this person that wrote is completely wrong on his judgement of mr. anderson. when i was at the school everyone there had there jobs before they were released from school. this is a bogess report and i will say this young man did not qualify with the trucking industry therefore they denied him into the training. mr anderson is one of the most passtionate people i have ever met and i hope people that read this understand this is bad report. You cant be the number one employer in the state and be what this young claims. PLEASE understand in the field there are a few that cany get into the system and they blame the school. yes i gave 50.00 for my background check . the reason they do a nation wide background is to verify employment. this person thinks that they stole his 50.00 . i laugh at this report because it is not accurate. I have found that for every complaint against mr anderson and truck driver institute there are thousands of success stories. remember there is always two sides to every story and this report is untrue
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