decker truck lines ft dodge iowa

all I can say is if my fleet of 250 flatbed trucks and 400 reefer is a mega fleet then I wonder what a small fleet is. I wish all drivers could come in and work in the recruiting dept and orientation dept for a while cause what you see and hear on a weekly basis will blow your mind. We can argue who is right and who is wrong but its like I tell these guys before they knowingly and willingly sign the repayment agreement, we put up front out of our pocket this money to bring you in and all we ask is you be honest and up front with us, you cant beleive how many failed drug tests and so much other stuff comes thru a company every week. I agree some big companies are kind of shady in their practices I wont name a few that I think what they do is illegal, but to lump every company with more then a handfull of trucks a mega crap company is just not right. I have been with this company for almost 15 years, I still drive on weekends and sometimes I take my vacationn and go out for a trip, we have a dispatcher here that logged 45k miles last year and that is on top of his full time office job. I really think we try hard to do right for a driver and bend over backwards for a driver. But my new favorite saying is you cant fix stupid and no matter what we do there are some things that just cant be controlled or helped.

 

And I am not defending how he quit either, that is one thing you were right about, not the right way to leave a company.

What Decker did to his DAC is not the right way to handle things either.

 

There are a lot of differences in leaving a janitorial job or leaving a management job due to the government requirements of background checks on CDL drivers. I know that if I received an application from a driver who "abandoned" the truck at the terminal it does not mean a no hire. It needs to be looked at. This issue for us is that if he was under a load, brought it to the terminal and just left it without telling anyone, and it resulted in a service failure or even a customer chargeback, is it a driver that a company wants to take a risk on? The issue is not that it is on his DAC, the issue is that he did it. No trucking companies are perfect. None. Very few drivers are perfect. A few are. But does a company want to hire a driver that abandoned their truck or job and did not tell anyone. The company is still responsible for the timely delivery of any load that may have been left behind.

 

True, but he was already on "medical leave", at least on paper anyway.

There was no issue of recovering the abandoned vehicle since it was already in their yard.

He was not dispatched, or under a load.

Pretty obvious the driver is lying, but it it pretty hard to have a service failure on medical leave.

Background checks are necessary for criminal activity, and last time I checked it is not against the law to quit a job with or without notice unless you are in the military. Nor is it against the law in most states for a company to terminate me without notice.

A work record usually speaks for itself without your former employer using DAC to cast additional stones. Thank God for TTR, because we can throw stones right back when they play their games.

 

if not under a load, and truck at the terminal, I agree this should pretty much be a non issue. Really no harm so perhaps no foul. Worst thing done was quit without notice. Happens every day, many times a day

 

Why, thank you for noticing!

 

Wondering if we are ever going to hear from op again. When I quit first driving job, came back from home time, was given a load to deliver 18 miles away. Was the last straw. Got a call from another company about 10 mins later wanting to bring me in. Told dm that i quit after this load. He said fine just park truck at yard. I did. Cleaned it out packed everything and rolled home.

 

all valid points. i will ask you this does a driver want to work for a company that would call what he did abandonment? my issue is not with decker being upset with what he did. it is the use of dac to portray something that did not occur. abandonment is a strong word in this industry. companies use it way to loosely.

 

Exactly right.