I just recently spent $5,500 getting my CDL A. Finally get a job and go through the training, everything is going great. My trainer was awesome and a very hard worker. However the whole time he was very critical about the company. In my opinion I felt like this was just one of the mill resentment that you naturally get over the years. It has not taken me long to understand. After a month of training with him and not going home for 90 something dollars a day I get dropped off on Saturday. On Tuesday I get issued my own truck. I'm meticulously scan the truck for issues as I am unfamiliar with it and don't want to drive something dangerous or get in trouble. A lot of the damage is very superficial and suggests based on the low miles that the previous drivers were abusive the machine, but nothing unsafe. I get in the truck and see that there is no tablet. This is a major issue. First of all everything that we do in regards to running our clocks at this company, communicating with our DMs, submitting our paperwork, getting a route plan, and so on is done via these tablets which you will see in the picture is not there. I was issued a truck without the item I am supposed to use for everything I do. So I think okay I just need to go in and request a tablet or a truck that has one. He tells me to check with the shop and if they don't have one I need to run on paper. I have never used the map in my life, I barely know how to fill out a log book, they never trained me to, and they never verified if I knew. Worst yet my region is New England… That means New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, all the places where if you take a wrong turn in a tractor trailer it can easily get you in trouble. Worst yet, this company clarified at the beginning of orientation that we get an additional 50 miles over the route plans per load, every additional dollar beyond that we get charged for the price of the diesel and $1 per mile. So for 100 additional miles to the route plan they can charge me $80. I was fine with this because I was expecting to have a GPS so it just never seemed like it was going to be an issue. Now they want me to run on maps in one of the most complicated places to drive and the United States with the tractor trailer without one of the basic tools that they train me to use without training me on any alternatives. As a result I put a work order into the shop to let them know that I'm not going until I get a tablet. It is now Friday night and they don't operate on the weekends, come Monday it will be hitting a week. I get paid by the mile so I'm just not getting paid because the company wouldn't provide me the bare minimum they guaranteed and won't give me any alternative options other than risking my own neck as a driver. Come Monday I'm not giving them a chance to make it right I'm leaving. If a company can't even provide the bare minimum or alternative training to that minimum and expect me to just go that doesn't bode well for sticking with them long-term. 4 hours from home by the way with no vehicle cuz I was told I would take the truck home, so on top of this massive waste of time I got to get a few hundred in bus tickets.