Why Did You Quit- Why Do Drivers Quit

Last one I fired ran out of fuel 10 miles from a feed mill that was out of product. Had already totaled a very nice trailer by putting the tandems in deep ditch loaded and twisted it. I asked him when I got there as I was pretty close how do you run out of fuel when you have a unlimited fuel card that works any where and 250 gallons of capacity. He got out of the truck rared back slammed the door and said if you would fix the fuel gauge on this junky sob I wouldn't have. My son had got there by then as he was going to the same place I looked at him said he is your man but I just fired him and no he isn't driving this #### truck home. All that was wrong with fuel gauge is he couldn't understand a Pete fuel gauge switch. Lol

 

Hehehe. Fired him for slammin' the door didn't ya? I don't blame you.

 

Yea sometimes it's the little things that get me when it comes to our equipment

 

We will see...been out 10 weeks, taking a week starting Friday....

 

i would have fired him after the trailer myself. if for some reason i didn't running out of fuel and then coping a attitude and slamming the door would have sent him packing. that wasn't very long ago that you had mentioned the trailer getting put in the ditch and totaled.

 

Its what you make of it. Some guys are never going to be happy any where long. I've never quit a job until I had a better job that fit me better. I've had some great bosses who taught me more than just how to do a good job. I've had some who taught how not to treat people. My daddy told me when work somebody always do the best can and don't make excuses when you screw up. Believe me I have screwed up plenty. But I've never been fired from any job.

 

OP all of those would be accurate reasons I should have left for, but in the end, when they can't keep a 2 year old truck on the road because of DPF issues, and the damage required a full inframe at 320k miles, we finally walked.

The company wasn't great, but the newer equipment in the shop for weeks on end was the nail in the coffin.

 

I am only going to say this one more time.....
I very rarely quit because a trucking company was quote BAD, but I have quit many times because their customers are BAD.

Case in point....You (the trucking company) can have nude women bring me coffee and doughnuts every time I walk into the office and it does not matter because I am not at your office I'm at your customers and if your customer sucks so do you.

I do not want to sit at your customers location for hours on in for free nor do I care the reason why I'm sitting at their location, I just want to pick up, deliver and leave I get paid by the mile not by the hour, if I was paid by the hour I wouldn't care and no before you ask 2-4 hours for free before detention time starts does not count.

Hope that fills in the blanks for you. The more I work for free the more I do not like either one of you (the trucking company or their customer).

 

theres a bigger shortage of good companies

 

sitting and not getting paid