Saw this yesterday M arten T ransport

Typically it will go like this:

Employee: I quit!
Employer: Oh you quit?
Employee: Yeah, I'm done you guys suck.
Employer: Ok, get off our property.
Employee (former): what about a ride home?
Employer: You quit, figure it out.

 

Exactly, except you left out some expletives.

WHY would an employer feel ANY obligation to an employee who has resigned? My responce would be "Thanks for your service here @ XYZ Freightlines, do you require an excort to the gate".

 

I have been in this exact situation. Had to call the law on a driver who decided he quit and was deadheading 2000 miles to the house. Sorry but that's alot of fuel money for a company to eat on top of recovering the truck. Had the driver given me notice or at least the opportunity to load the truck we would have provided a load home and/or transportation to where he needed to be.

There has to be more to this story than what the driver says regardless of how bad (or not) Marten may be.

 

This is America he is innocent till proven guilty. Then with a good lawyer even though he is guilty he will be proven innocent!

 

There is a lot more to this story. A company, most for that matter aren't out to "get the drivers". They are out to make money. Plain and simple. Did they tell this guy to bring the truck to the yard? Or another secure location? Did he just decide to deadhead himself to Georgia? A lot we aren't being told. If a company tells you "Bring the truck to the yard here in Mondovi, WI", where Marten is based, that's where you take the truck. Not where you want to or where is convienant for you. Their truck, their rules. When you go to work for someone, that's how it is. It's not spiteful to require you to do what they ask of you with $200,000 worth of equipment.

 

I agree. There is something missing in this story. I never tell company i quit or give two weeks notice till i am at yard or terminal. So if they not like truck is returned and i am on way.

 

And that's the way to do it. it protects you and really it protects the carrier also. A major carrier will tell you to clean out your truck now as they have countless recruits waiting for an MT truck. A smaller carrier "may" need two weeks notice and depending on how the relationship has been with them you may wish to extend them that courtesy.

 

In todays world it seems that companies fair better giving u two weeks pay and cutting u early as a precaution. So two weeks notice at a safe place is a wise thing. If they want u to work those two weeks u will know.

 

When I quit Pepsi, I gave my two weeks, trained the new guy for a week and told them my last week was the vacation they never let me take.

 

i new when i worked for marten that they were low life people. this is a new kind of low. after reading the article. I believe some of the post i wrote about them are turning out to be true. the terrible economy is the blame for the terrible treatment employees get. now if the driver would have waited and planned on telling them that he was quitting when he was headed back to the terminal. then the results would have been different. i think because he was going back to the tucker terminal after being on the road to deliver a load and then turning with it. was a big problem. if he would of told them that after this load. i need to be routed back home to turn the equipment in. or said, i'm quitting where do you want me to turn the truck in at? would have made a difference. and if the said, leave it were you stop at next. then i would get a photograph of the screen desplaying the message. parked the truck at a nearby truck stop and made my way from there. and when it came up on the dac record as abandoned. I would have sent the picture of the message in showing that it was the wishes of the company wanting me to leave it on the road. and believe me. i would have had it so well documented. that the trucking company wouldn't have a snowball of a chance to lie there way out of it.