You SHOULD know in advance that you are fed up with this company so you would be BEST to get a load home so you can clean the truck out and make sure it's clean.
It's easier to clean it out to the garage than in the yard and wonder where you'll put all this crapola you horded! Take LOTS of pictures both inside and out of the truck! Hopefully you followed my previous post here http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...s-advice/94252-what-do-when-you-get-your.html on when you GOT the truck. DOCUMENT EVERYTHING about the truck all the way to the tail lights and depth of the thread on every tire!
When the truck is clean THEN call the company after you get back from the post office and tell them POLITELY that you are giving AT LEAST 2 WEEKS NOTICE! And then send it in on your satellite communications and heck even text them! The 2 week notice is world standard. If you want to give a longer notice, then do it but at LEAST 2 weeks as a bottom feeder can put on your report "didn't give notice" which will hurt down the road.
It's also best to HAVE ANOTHER JOB lined up before walking from this one. Most of these companies will respect the 2 week notice you want to give (as they want the same "respect" also) and if you talked to the recruiter and were honest with him about who you were driving for they will not check with them until you are sitting in orientation. They know the deal! You're probably not the first driver to quit and not want the POS company you're driving for to know till you're out the door!
The ONLY SECURE way to give notice to a company that you are going to quit from is by the US Mail! NOT Email! (it wouldn't hurt but it's still not the best way!) You will send in a POLITE and exact reason(s) why you are quitting, where you will be doping off the equipment, and you will ask for conformation by return mail AND in truck communications where the company would like for you to leave the equipment if they have a preference.
Get SOMEONE to sign off on the truck, down to every little scratch and dent! (You should have the list of when you were issued this POS to back up that it's in the same condition or better when you turned it in!) If they refuse then take MORE pictures and have the date imbedded on the pictures but try for a picture of the truck in front of the company sign or in the shop with a mechanic standing next to the truck. IF THEY REFUSE to sign for the truck tell them, OK, and refuse to get out of the truck until the police arrive! And they will as the company will call them because that's what bottom feeders do! This way you will have a police report and pictures of the officer to fall back on when said bottom feeder says you "abandoned" the truck somewhere! Yep, in their lot according to the police report with your name on it which you can then send to DAC/HireRight when you do your rebuttal form!
You are trying to cover your arse and these are the ways you do it! But DOCUMENT your moves! The return receipt requested form and a copy of your Termination Notice written in proper form with your name and address on the top right side then the Safety Directors name and company address on the left. Then TERMINATION NOTICE centered across the center above the body of the letter. It's even best to send 2 letters 1 to the owner or CEO! That return receipt can be used in a court of law so pay the piddling $3 or $4 dollars for them!
You have to be freaking POLITE! No name calling no I'll kick your arse, no if I see a truck of yours I'll burn it to the ground NOTHING! If you can't write with a high school education or higher get someone to help you! BUT BE POLITE! NO THREATS!
Tell them you are giving a 2 week notice. Tell them the reasons why you are quitting (NOT your dispatchers couldn't dispatch a nail up their arse) but the reasons! Ask them for a location BY RETURN MAIL and over their communications of where they want the equipment returned, but you WILL NOT return it until you have received IN HAND a letter stating where the equipment is to be dropped! And explain to them in the letter WHY, that you don't want "incorrect" information to be put on your DAC/USIS/HireRight records! See the being polite in so many words? LOL If you haven't received this letter by the date you plan to return the truck then tell them you are heading to the yard and MT if need be. (hopefully you have gotten a pay check and aren't to worried about another as you will probably not get one due to the cost of the fuel!)
When you get to the yard you should now be covered with pictures of a clean truck, a truck in better shape than what it was issued to you in (hopefully) and you have a letter in your hand telling you where to leave the truck and an inspection sheet that the shop or someone in the office has filled out for you!
If your company is like an old one I worked for that every time a bird hit your windshield or a rock dented a panel and they wrote it up, you will want a COMPLETE copy of their records from "YOUR" personnel records! ESPECIALLY if you have to sit in some form of safety review! If they want you to sign any "safety review" then you deserve a copy! If you had an escrow account as a company driver and they "paid out monies from it" you want a copy. If they try to refuse then pull a quarter out of your pocket and tell them this should cover the paper! If they still refuse then give them the name of your lawyer! If you sign your name on any paper you deserve a copy and stand on this! DO NOT BACK DOWN! This goes for leases!
Then if for some reason "incorrect" information makes it to you DAC then you have all the ammunition you need to get it removed from your records!
It's gotten bad out there and especially for you newer drivers that are bringing in this government money for these bottom feeders and then getting canned about a year later when that money dries up, need to follow these simple ways to cover your arse! Hopefully you saw the above post on what to do when you get assigned a truck and you will follow this post. You're covering your arse! These companies don't care about you or your family! YOU DO, so document it the best you can! IF you can do a vacation before you quit then even better! You'll have gotten most of your money and can rest assured that if they try for more then what ever you were to get before your termination date is a write off! At least it's not everything they owed you and I've seen them stop checks and refuse to pay! Heck, they've even sent drivers bills for "damages" or "other charges" and actually expected to be "paid" for these things! Paying these bills is left up to you! I'd laugh at them and file them where they belong!
I hope this will help you when you do decide to quit that bottom feeder company because if they were worth staying with, you wouldn't be quitting would you!
Good Luck
Rollover
What to do when quit that POS company!
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Rollover the Original, Dec 1, 2009.
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I was sent to go find a truck somebody abandoned. It was a new guy, quit after one week because he didn't like the truck. It was about a 300 mile round trip in my car, picked up my dad so he could drive it home. They paid me $400 plus they sent my dad a check, and the driver who abandoned the truck didn't get paid at all for the one week he drove for them.
They had me take the truck home. So when my neighbor saw me with two 18 wheelers parked at home, he said "I've heard of you guys running two log books but this is ridiculous!"
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