Dads Death

wouldn't expect anything less from those crooks at k&b!!

 

That's sad. I know when my mother died, and also my father died at 2 different times, I was not allowed to go home or to their funerals. Businesses in America are all run by insensitive pigs.

 

is very sad situation, How ever you are grown adults, NO ONE allows or denies you access to your family in the time of need except yourself ! Life is short, family comes before any job. You will always be able to get a new job !!!!JMO

 

not allowed to go home? F them.. i would of drove the trk to where i needed to be.. a job is a job family is everything .. and what u went thru was far more important then any freight anywhere at any time.. god bless u man and sorry for your losses .. hang tough

 

I'm sorry about your Dad, but you abandoned the truck. I don't see any mention that you told them you needed a few days off due to an emergency. Did they know you were quitting, or thought you were just taking a few days off?
This is an industry that will screw you over big time if you cover your butt.

 

There is your answer.
You quit, and left the truck at a truck stop. That is the very deffinition of "abandonment".
Unfortunately, the deffinition....and those that make and interperate the deffinition do not care that your Dad has passed.

You will not get the sympothy you need to have the abandonment removed from your DAC.

However; if you are smart, you will have learned the true colors of the industry, and the abandonment souldn't mean a thing if you move on to a more sympathetic and caring industry (which would be just about anything and everything else you can think of).

I was in Georgia the day my very last Grandparent died (maternal Grandmother). We were very, very close (heck, she raised me during my childhood summers). When my Uncle called me from her room in Hospice, a told me she was ready to pass....but would not let go until she could say good bye to me, I was CRUSHED. Told my dispatcher I needed to get home IMMEDIATELY....and the dispather thought I was lying to avoid taking a load to Boston.
After a bunch of argument....I lost the battle....was forced to head to Boston.....and my Grandma passed in the mean time. Told my dispatcher, that she had passed and now I need to get back for the funeral, and the (incert less than kind name here) called me a liar again. By the time I could convince ANYONE in the office that I was serious....my Grandma was in the ground.
They got their truck back when I got to the terminal----and I have never forgiven them or myself since.
But I did NOT abandon the truck.