Do Truckers Ever Give Notice? Need a resume?

Depends on the Employer and their track history. If I hear they tend to play with money owed. No notice. Even go as far to tell them I’m only gone temporarily, till I get my money. Then it’s, well I’ve decided to quit. Done this twice. Had no choice. Both times they were extremely angry and rude.

 

I gave 2 week notice to leave every trucking job in 28 years. I had to fill out complete application and 3-10 job history at each job. Nobody asked to see my resume'.

 

Depends on the company. Sometimes you have to plan an exit strategy. A company that's terrible about getting you home on time or to a terminal, you can't give them a notice. A company that's more of a well oiled machine, a notice works then.

 

HA! Yeah, they don't give you much notice when they fire you. You know, it's a good question for the times, but back then, there were so many jobs, it wasn't such a big deal. You had another job the next day, pre-lined up,,of course, and the day after that, your old job was filled. Heck, I had 2 jobs in a week once. Notice? Yeah,,,I usually gave a week. It was no mystery, your loads went WAY down that 2nd week, and besides, a week was good enough for unskilled work. Not like they are losing a professor and I think only once did I go back to a trucking company, who asked ME to come back.
Far as a resume, I never did that, and had dozens of jobs. Usually, a good stern look in the eye and a firm handshake told the boss, I can handle it, and just by the sheer numbers, the boss knew right away if you'd work out. We don't have that today, heck, you may never ever see the boss, and with all the BS, word means nothing. We've sure come a long ways,,,

 

I found this to be more accurate to my experience as well.

My first company that I quit, I gave 2 weeks notice. They immediately tried to send me to the house. I told them I don't start my new job for 2 weeks, if you want, I'm in the truck ready to go, for 2 weeks. Just get me home for such and such day. They said ok. Then failed to get me home on that day. I deadheaded from IL to TN against their request for me to stay and left the truck at the yard. They said "If you deadhead all the way to TN you're fired" I said I quit anyway, the truck will be at the yard in 6 hours. Give me 4 to unload it. Bye." Never spoke to them again.

When I quit the job that I got shot at, I quit on home time. Sent them a message 2 days before I needed to be at orientation for the next job. I told them I quit and the truck was emptied out and I would be going to orientation on this day, so have me at your yard with or without a load by noon the day before. They said ok. 2 days came and went, and they never got me a load out of the house. One reason I quit them. I told them to come get the truck its at the local truck stop with the keys on the seat. I never looked back. I kept all correspondence to them showing them that I gave them 48 hours to find a load to the yard. (Many many times over the years they gave me loads out of places near my house that dropped at the yard, this was not an odd request that I was making) just incase they tried to ping my DAC about abandoning equipment. I wanted ample proof that THEY tried to control me, and just lost the control battle. They were that ####ty of a company. They loved having control over you, and finally, they had no control over me. I WAS IN CONTROL. They knew I had their truck and it was empty, I couldn't care less about it. They wanted to try to get me to miss orientation for my new job. Nope not gonna happen. Come get your truck. Bye.

Truck sat the truck stop for almost a week. I noticed that someone had disconnected the tractor from the trailer, but still, nobody was in it. It was weird. Sat there for almost 10 days I believe before someone came got it. Weird because it was one of their newest tractors, a '23 Peterbilt, with the full digital dash. Other than the neat climate control system and way the TV mounted, I hated everything about that POS truck. It was so poorly assembled even the cruise buttons didn't work right. They were wired backwards, so you had to push the "-" button to increase cruise control speed, and the "+" button to decrease it. Go figure. Way to go, Peterbilt. The headlights were so weak and dim I could hardly tell they were on most of the time. I kept driving and trying to put them on, thinking they were off.

 

That’s a good attitude if you’re willing to let an ex boss decide your morals and how you’re going to act. I don’t think any grown man or woman on here is going to say giving a notice isn’t the right thing to do.Now some companies will not except a notice and the day you turn it in will be the last day.But if you are working there if you been there any amount of time you should know if there going to say we don’t need a notice ,today so you should already be prepared for the answer

 

i worked there for 10 years, it just showed how they think of you.
Let them terminate your job, see how much notice they give you.

 

I don’t concern myself about how someone else thinks or acts about. I sure try not to let them effect how I act.If most people were honest they try to justify not working a notice by blaming someone else when the truth is there just to afraid to go in the boss’s office and stand there like a grown man and tell him so they take the easy way out say I’m done and turn tail or I’ve heard even just send a text or don’t say anything just never come back and don’t answer the phone .The right thing to do is just that the right thing to do.

 

if you work for an ethical and sound trucking company that treats, their drivers right overall. You definitely want to leave a notice. If you work for a shady trucking company and you’re quitting because they’re always playing games, ripping you off, doing shady stuff, then I probably wouldn’t leave a notice because they may leave you stranded somewhere or make up a lie about you. You should be smart enough to know which type of company you work for.