Quitting

Easy to say what I’d do. Ask any group of people their opinions. You’ll hear a lot of big talk. I’m guilty myself. Reality is, life’s not always fair. A Truckdriver should always return the Truck to the same location he originally got it. Unless instructed otherwise.

 

I'm at that point in life where I just don't care anymore.

 

DAC is such a bs thing anyway. Its a private co. that trucking co's have used to manipulate and scare drivers. Hell they've got most new drivers programmed to tattle on themselves any time any little thing happens.

Now, I had to recover my old company truck a month ago from a jerkoff liar that said it had a bunch of issues and tried to say it was OOS. All because he wanted to quit and was too chicken #### to return it to our main yard 5hrs away. Heck my company would've even got him a bus ticket home and gladly told him if he ever needs a job to come back.

 

Never tell them ahead your going to quit, NEVER.
Tell them you have a personal emergency and need a load home, NOW. They will get you home, also note you need not tell what the emergency is, just tell them its personal and urgent.
Drop the truck at there closest yard to your house, do not take equipment home with you, Tell them you won't be able to supervise the safety of there equipment and you want to drop it off. Once your home you will still get your normal pay checks, ask for anything like vacation pay you would have coming as you need it for the emergency, tell them no details, after about 2 weeks call in and tell them you won't be able to come back, and you need the balance of your money.
No worries about abandonee equipment charge or any of the rest of the crap they like to pull.

 

I agree, but this driver is in a no win situation. If he drives it the 800 miles without instruction they can ding his DAC and potentially charge him $1 per mile, depending on what he signed as he hired on. If he doesn't take the truck back, they can ding his DAC. If he takes a load and they screw him with it, his misses his start date.

My question is why work for a company whose only terminal is 800 miles from your house? Also, why not turn the truck in BEFORE going on home time?

 

Oh noes! Muh DAC.

And wtf charge him $1/mi for returning their truck? Ok. Lets see documented proof of that ever happening.

 

Plus, one yard in Gary. What are the odds they even use DAC?
They could claim abandonment on a pre employment screen sure, but that's easily refuted.

 

I still fail to see how its abandonment if they don't instruct someone what to do with their truck. By definition of abandonment, they abandoned their own truck.