Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

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  1. xlsdraw

    xlsdraw Road Train Member

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    When I fell out with Big G, I was at the Shelbyville terminal. I just called my wife and told her to come get me.

    If you have really had enough. Can you get your wife to meet you in Marietta? That's what I would likely do if I was done.

    But hopefully you can just work out a notice and then take the truck to DeLand.
     
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  3. xlsdraw

    xlsdraw Road Train Member

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    Twice I worked out notices and took the truck back to DeLand after getting empty in Florida.

    Once I quit on the spot in New Kingston after the CPAP fiasco. My wife was with me so we just rented a car and drove home.
     
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  4. supersnackbar

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    With my wife's sleep apnea, driving from our house to Gainesville or Lake City is tough unless she has someone to keep her awake.(30ish miles to either one). No way on earth could she make Marietta, especially going thru/around Atlanta. I would rent a car and drop this POS off in Lenoir before I'd ask her to come get me.

    They ended up letting me bobtail in to get the load after I said 'enough' I am going to the truckstop for the weekend and you can stick this load on someone else. After all that crap from the idiot planner last week, then the tire issue, and getting nagged at autonomously about not getting my bills scanned in within 90 minutes of being empty. Then all the construction traffic coming in on 24 today...I have pretty much made up my mind that any of my previous employers (except Big G) would be head and shoulders above this place.
     
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  5. nredfor88

    nredfor88 Road Train Member

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    If that day ever comes, just know that one way rental cars don’t exist anymore. It’s Penske or Uhaul.
     
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  6. xlsdraw

    xlsdraw Road Train Member

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    Really?
     
  7. nredfor88

    nredfor88 Road Train Member

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    Yep, over that past year I’d thought of changing situations fairly regularly and tried many times testing availability. Not once was a car available for one way. Multiple starting and ending points. I’ve been told the same by employers as well.
     
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  8. JoeyJunk

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    Last one way rental I was able to get was December 2020. It was with Dollar rent a car. Only one that would do it. They are the Greyhound of car rental companies. Got to see the same type of people renting cars that ride the buses. Of course it was chaos.
     
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  9. supersnackbar

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    Shaffer rented me one to get to orientation, then rented another to get me to Deland to pick up my truck. If I get the truck to Deland, my wife could get my daughter to help come pick me up.
     
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    Heck I’ll drive to Florida and get you home after this fiasco!!
     
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    The problem started when Covid caused the rental companies to offload cars to stay afloat due to most people hiding at the house not renting. Now they can’t replace them, apparently.
     
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