angry trucker ,dont work for paschall,ptl.trki

If you read the post you will see that he was fired twice.

 

I have a real good relationship with my company,but victor is correct,if you are more or less just a number somewhere in the middle or end of the line,companies will fire you and don't need a good reason or any reason at all.They don't care what you have in your trk and won't give you any time to clean it out and won't tell you,they'll just hire another driver.Should be a law against that.But in the trucking world there aren't too many laws that protects only the trucker.

 

Advice to OP:

About this time some folks will start doing the third degree on you, demanding info on why fired so they can put you under the white light and sniff your underwear.

Don't buy into it. You don't have to engage in any postmortem. Just tell your experience and leave it at that. Gotta lotta driver-blamers here who have nothing better to do than rake other drivers over the coals. Sad, but true. Companies with 100% driver turnover can do no wrong...


/truckon, I did read that (2nd firing). The first on hometime, then at the terminal after they had problem retrieving truck and lured her back likely with no intention of keeping her on, just wanted truck back. It's shabby driver treatment and something we in the TTR community should take note of, part of what makes a 'bad' company.

 

Listen to him.You know so much.He got fired of course drivers wanna know otherwise don't post you got fired.

 

Difficult for OP to tell the shabby treatment without including the firing, and twice!

If you drive for a company with 84.6% Driver Safety, it's looking for sacrificial lambs to fire so that it can tell FMCSA that it's 'doing something' about Driver Safety. 'See. We let x drivers go who got...' Whatever the reason, does not really matter. Shabby driver treatment matters.

We should be outraged at shabby treatment of fellow drivers. This is shabby treatment doubled.

Shame, shame, PTL...

 

O.P. said they live in Florida, I do also, I called PTL 2 weeks ago and was told they are not allowed to hire anyone from Florida anymore. It is possible O.P. did nothing wrong, just PTL wants their trucks out of this state.

 

/truckon, I did read that (2nd firing). The first on hometime, then at the terminal after they had problem retrieving truck and lured her back likely with no intention of keeping her on, just wanted truck back. It's shabby driver treatment and something we in the TTR community should take note of, part of what makes a 'bad' company.[/QUOTE]



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The question is why he was fired the first time, a company is not "Bad" because they fire an employee, all that we ask on TTR is for the whole story, not just "I was fired so don't work for this company" BS doesn't fly with most of us here.

 

Exactly. Inquiring minds want to know!

If he was indeed fired on home time and told the truck was being picked up, he was then freed of all responsibility for it. I'd love to know what they told him when they called him back. I would have told them to go jump in the lake and that I would park the truck at a location of their choice, at THEIR expense if charges would be accrued, until such time they could pick it up. No way I'd go back to work for them after being fired. I can smell a rat a mile away and for them to suddenly want me back when it became inconvenient for them to pick up their own equipment would smell too fishy. I

t's like when Walmart fired me, they wanted me to wait around to do some paperwork. I told them to go #### themselves and that I was going home and they had better mail me my final check along with any paperwork they needed to be signed which would be mailed back, At first they refused, that it wasn't "Walmart policy" To mail checks. I told them if I had to drive back to pick it up, I'd fire off a letter to OSHA letting them know all the illegal stuff that went on in the back room. My check was mailed to my house.

If they put on my DAC report that I abandoned the equipment, I'd fight that tooth and nail. You didn't abandon anything when they tell you that they are coming to get it. That's bull.

Stevens Transport told us if a truck was parked more than 5 days on home time, it was likely to be picked up. Only happened to me once. Stevens reimbursed me the travel expenses back to Dallas to pick up another truck.

 

Mega outfits like PTL and with 100% turnover figure they have no risk culling drivers as long as they can get a new driver into the seat. One great value in TTR is making a record of shabby treatment.

IMO, once the thread turns to evaluating the OP, it's about to slide off the rails. These things turn into attacks on and senselessly re-victimize the OP. Deplorable.

fat trucker points out that PTL wants their trucks out of FL. PTL doesn't need a reason and neither do we. We should be against shabby treatment of ANY and ALL drivers. Not looking for some pseudo justification of PTL.

 

I hear what you're saying about the abandone thing and I wanna believe this driver should not get that put on his dac.I also wanna believe that this is a bad company from the beginning.If they indeed used him just to get the trk back and then refire him,they are capable of putting untruths on his dac.I would also fight this and also file for unemployment. Nothing in this industry surprises me what they do to drivers.Sad they get away with it.