FMCSA warns of hiring scam aimed at CDL drivers, training schools

Mike

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Drivers and training schools are being cautioned against a scheme aimed at defrauding both CDL drivers and training schools attempting to help students find jobs.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a release earlier this month outlining the scam. The fraudster promises employment in return for monetary payments to fraudulent “recruiters.”

A caller represents himself or herself as being a recruiter for a known and legitimate motor carrier to a representative of a truck driving school or driver. The caller has an air of urgency and “must hire” several CDL holders immediately or as soon as a student graduates from driver training and receives his or her CDL. The fraudster is also known to solicit truck driving school instructors to provide his or her callback number to trainees or recent graduates of truck driving schools.

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