Can CDL Be Revoked If Don't Finish Time In Contract?

Hey, this company First Student I have been training with said that they are third party testers. They say they require 6 months working for them and if you leave before them they will contact the SOS and have your CDL revoked. My question is can this be done, or are they just trying to keep you from leaving after obtaining the cdl? This is in Illinois.

Also, what if you obtain the class B, but decide you want to go to school for Class A through another company, can the CDL still be revoked or could this cause any issues?

Thank you kindly for your answers.

Don't really know anything about them. Please read your contract.

You have a valid CDL issued by the Illinois Secretary of State, correct?

I can't imagine a 3rd party tester could revoke your CDL.. they didn't issue it.. the state did.

John, welcome to our forum!

Has it occurred to you that you might be focused on all the wrong things at this point in your career?

Is a six month commitment really just too much for you to handle? At some point you agreed to this contract didn't you? What has changed that makes you so eager to bail out?

Thank you everyone for your reply. Also, no, 6 months is no time at all and I have no problems with doing that. Also, if I needed I could just buy out the contract if that was an option as financially this is no problem for me. I'm actually just wondering if this could be done or if anyone has experience similar to this? Also, lately I've decided to just go for my class A and after 6 months driving a bus, I'm going to go to school and sign on with a company that's willing to pay for the school. Really, I'm just wondering if this can be done and I kind of wish I went for the class A to begin with. I'm not sure why I thought class B then upgrade to class A. Seems like I wasted my time but I wanted P & S endorsements as a fall back but those won't help me with a Class A.

Also, I haven't signed any contracts yet, they just happened to mention this while we were doing training on this particular day.

John says:

I'm going to go to school and sign on with a company that's willing to pay for the school.

I hope your not looking for that free lunch. Free stuff in business does not exist. A company may stake you the tuition, but you'll be paying them back, most often with about a year of your driving.

Haha, I remember someone at Prime threatening to revoke a guy's CDL when he left immediately after finishing TNT. He had had his CDL for a couple of months at that point. Prime supplied the third party testers. He kept his CDL, but I'm sure Prime went after him for the money he owed them under the contract for not finishing his year there.

Bottom line is that the State of Missouri (or Illinois in your case) issues the license, not the company. They are blowing smoke to keep people in line. The contract is their real remedy if a student leaves early. They don't have any authority to revoke licenses, just because the state has given them authority to conduct the test for the license. Only the state can do that.

John says:

I'm going to go to school and sign on with a company that's willing to pay for the school.

I hope your not looking for that free lunch. Free stuff in business does not exist. A company may stake you the tuition, but you'll be paying them back, most often with about a year of your driving.

Thanks everyone for replying. No, not looking for free lunch. The class A company requires 1 year OTR driving with them or you pay $2500 for the school. Initially, I wasn't sure if I wanted to do OTR because of family. Really though, I won't be earning much driving a bus and realize class A is the way to go and a year or two of OTR isn't so bad especially if I could get something possibly local with the company after that time or get hired by the Post Office ( They require a year of driving tractor trailer or passenger bus ).

Anywhere around here starting out with no experience class A requires OTR. Since I'm already halfway through the training. I will finish with them, get the license and drive a bus for a few months then go for the class A.

Thanks again for the replies.