Schneider screwed me and I'm only 23

Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act a DAC is treated the same as a Credit Report. That is, if there is a mistake on it you can write a rebuttal and amend it. It is then up to the company that posted the original material to verify it or remove the mistake. I would go this route myself.

Some of the comments on here are very good. If you are planning to quit a company the best place to give your notice is at the home terminal not 2,000 miles away especially if the company has multiple terminals. Might just find yourself routed "to relay a load" into a different terminal and pulled from the truck.

True story about Roehl: The company decided to terminate a driver from the Groveton, NH terminal (his home terminal) but did not tell him this. He went in to work and got a load to WI and was then given a load down to Gary, IN. When he got there they met him at the fuel pumps and pulled him from the truck leaving him several states from home.

This is not to single Roehl out as a bad actor but a company can only take so much abandoned equipment and the cost of retrieval. It is up to the driver to protect himself.

When I gave my notice to Roehl I refused to take a load that went that direction and made sure I was in my home area. They tried to tell be I would be charged with an abandoned truck even though it was sitting in my home terminal because I wouldn't take it where they wanted it (Marshfield, WI). I told them to have at it and good luck and it was an empty threat as this is not on my DAC.

If you intend on quitting make sure to follow the advice of several of the drivers and take every non-essential item out of the vehicle and reduce your belongings to what you can carry onto a bus or what you don't want and will leave.

When I quit Swift I gave them a notice and asked them where they wanted the truck. They asked me if I could bring it into a truckstop 150 miles from my house to be met by a trainer and his trainee as the trainee was at the end of his phase and was ready for a truck. I could have been an ##### and said no but I said that was fine by me. I took it there, cleaned it out in good shape and waited to be met by the trainer/trainee and then walked to the bus station and went home. Nothing on my DAC from this either as both the company and I were ok with what happened.

Most of the problems I hear from drivers or read from Companies have to do with a big fight, lots of screaming, problem drivers turning down loads/late with loads/damaged equipment etc..and then quitting under a load or in a huff somewhere.

Be a professional, give your notice but protect yourself just in case.

 

If yore going to quit,dont do it mad.Apply to your next job,tell them the situation up front and have that job ready to go then go to your boss and give notice.That way even if your old job tries to screw you youre already hired and working at the new one,then nobody will pay attention to a bogus dac report

 

In this day and age everything is a process. There is a quitting process just the same as a hiring process. All companies I have worked for have this pretty well spelled out in their company handbook or whatever they use as a reference guide. Follow this process to letter and you shouldn't have a problem leaving any company. Your recourse( and theirs) has been discussed on this thread so everyone should be able to understand it. As previously stated, document everything you do or say, and everything the company does or says. I can gurantee you the company will.

 

so you are the type that believes you have to kiss ### to get treated right?instead of going to the root of the problem?instead of seeing and wanting to fix the corrupt system we live under?just because they have the power to f u over that makes it right?guess we think diffrent then.thinking like that is what gave these companies the power to do it in the first place.the oh well it is what it is,nothing we can do about it now so just roll over and take it.

they take more and more control becuase good people do NOTHING....

btw most companies have it in writing these days that they and or you can terminate employment at ANY time.very rare do i see that they require a 2 week notice.

 

You apparently did not comprehend what he wrote:

Yeah it's a good idea to have another job locked down but what you should be saying to the new company is I need to give a notice so they don't slam me when it comes to another company checking my record. I did when I went back to O&S from TransAm and the recruiter at O&S told me thans for doing that and she understood completely the reasons. It's better than burning bridges behind you.

As I said it's how it's done and has been done for years even though in the world of trucking the Cowboy way of doing things isn't the norm any more.

You give that notice so when the next company checks on you no matter how badly they slam you when asked if you gave a notice and they say yes that can pretty much seal your future with your new job!

If they say no when asked about a notice and you have the copy of the return receipt or the delivery notice from FedX or UPS and a copy of the termination notice you sent and BFI slams your DAC most companies will know who was full of the brown stuff and it won;t be you!

As for this being a Kissing arse as you put it, you have no clue! It's done for YOU not BFI who is being terminated from his life! Covering your arse is the most important thing you can do to protect your future of working not living under a bridge because you didn't want to CYA with a 2 week notice.

Even back in the "old days" when we applied for a job and DAC was still a wet dream for some bottom feeder and the safety lady started her calling our previous employers many would ask if we gave a notice and if so that was a point in our favor!

As the old saying goes you only get 1 chance to make a good impression which is almost true but when it comes to applying for a new job not only does a 2 week notice look good but so does most of what you put on the app. You get more than 1 chance when it comes to an application to make a good impression. The walk in dressed is another chance to make that good impression.

As for the last couple of sentences in the quote..WTH are you trying to say? They do this crap because they CAN! Fix? Yeah only if you buy the place and fix it that way! Giving a notice isn't causing any problems except that BFI knows that they need to start to fill the seat. They can fire you as soon as you text, call, write or if they even think you're unhappy.

 

Just many more decades of "screwing" to come ...

 

If you are trying to go OTR because your local jobs pays less, you made a mistake somewhere. That and any reputable company will not use DAC...Period end of story. DAC is just a big a joke as the OTR industry.

 

yeah i understood what he wrote.maybe you did'nt understand what i ment?he stated that as if it would be in your best intrest to give the 2 weeks to save yourself the headaches the company can and will cause you.so instead of going to the root of the problem"ie the company having the power to say what they want to a company"dac" that ends up black balling you".soit's better to just suck it up and give the 2 weeks.

not to hard to understand?i did'nt think it was.seemed pretty cut and dry to me.

the last part was saying,our gov has set up a system that these companies can abuse just because they can.it's wrong,and a form of black mail.

 

i can play the game on your lvl tho.say you were treated like ####.but you needed to stay until you found a job"which i never said you should'nt,it's only common sense to have something else b4 making a move".then all the sudden a gem of a job popped up and they needed it filled asap.they tell you hey first come first serve we need someone now!would you not make the move and take the job asap?would you say well i have to give my 2 week notice so i'll call back in 2 weeks when im ready?

i never said you should'nt in an ideal world.but that does'nt mean im going to stoop down to a lvl where i condem the guy for not giving a 2week notice.then make the whole topic about him and how it's somehow all sudden his fault for not giving a 2 week notice.

with that said i'd like to know do you support a company being able to black ball you.then make it very hard for you to find a job if at all depending what they make up.just because you did'nt give a 2 week notice because THEY were screwing you around? why stop at trucking then.i guess it should be on any job?if anyone fails to give a 2 week notice they should not be allowed to work ever again?sounds fair,i mean if 1 job can do it heck might as well make it law.instead of seeing the problem"blackmail"which is what it really is.

just so im clear on this.are you saying it's ok for a company to make up #### as they please on your dac?it's everyones fault for not covering their #####?i do understand the cya it's common sense,but that does'nt make the wrong they do go away does it?i like to go to the root of the matter and correct the problem.but this is the real world i know this.all i stated was it's not right and no one should have to kiss ### just because.

 

from what i hear Maverick is Schneiders flat bed division, i could be wrong but ive heard that a family member of Schneider owns Maverick.