I spent much of the day today reviewing records in Warren Township Small Claims Court. I was looking at cases filed by Driver Solutions LLC against students at their truck driving schools from all over the country. The unfairness of these contracts is just staggering, but not nearly as the unfairness of the litigation tactics of the company, putting a clause in their contracts that they can sue their own customers in Indiana regardless of where the live, regardless of where the school was they attended, and regardless of where they signed the contracts. In addition, my review of the files shows that in many cases where they got judgments, there was not any evidence at all that the defendants ever received a copy of the summons and the complaint. Despite this, they are now trying to garnish wages of their customers whom they got judgments against in 2008, 2009, 2010, and these people may not even know they’ve been sued. I’m trying to put together a master strategy against Driver Solutions. If you find out they’ve sued you and gotten a judgment against you, you may be able to fight it. Send me an email through my website, www.hoferlawindy.com.
What is striking about these suits is that the company seems to be targeting the most down and out, and seems intent on keeping them there. A notice to appear in court directed to a trailer park here, a garnishment order directed to Wal-Mart there, For the most part, these people have been living with a judgment on their credit report for at least 5 years that they don’t know about. They don’t know about it probably because it’s not the only credit problem they have. Often times these people have not filed bankruptcy because they are too poor to file. I just saw an article today by Robert Reich talking about Economic Apartheid. We have enabled institutions that keep the poor down and keep them from moving up. When we let creditors take over our courthouses and turn them into slaughtering houses, we move away from the social mobility that used to be a hallmark of America. It’s just sad.