Quit DHT no notice no job

34600 on the drives is not bad, just burn off some fuel.
34500 on the tandems? slide back a couple holes. and burn more fuel up front no problems.

 

Hopefully ya have some kind of savings, might be a while before your next job.

 

He's 500lbs over gross. I run over weight sometimes but never over gross. 500 lbs of fuel is about 71 gallons, running dry and filling half a tank wold be frustrating

 

So basically your just tired of dht and trucking in general .

 

Routine problem. Over gross, burn off a thousand in fuel then slide trailer.

What a waste.

 

I run 5/8th max fuel in tanks. Stay a little lighter, get a little more mpgs, stay flush with showers etc. I get 80 gallons a day and top off the reefer daily.

 

So many people do things in anger they later regret. Driver one of the things that is fatal to a driving career is truck and/or load abandonment. You can rest assured this will be placed on DAC, count on it! Even if you interview with a company that does not deal with DAC you got that FMCSA mandated driving history to deal with. Trust me at some point every company you have driven for will be contacted or your DAC report will be bought ad hoc. When they see those magic words abandonment most will show you the door. Every trucking company I know of will not ever employ a driver with an abandonment history. You might find another job, just be aware of the yearly review process. I know of a guy that left a company truck and went to a JB Hunt orientation. The company placed the abandonment history in his DAC after he got hired by JB Hunt. He got a call to come to a JB Hunt terminal just after his yearly review. They fired him and sent his butt home. You young drivers and greenhorns need to always remember NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER leave a loaded trailer anywhere other then it's final destination or an approved and authorized repower. You never leave a tractor even at a terminal until it's been inspected. Keep your tempers in check until you can get those loads delivered. Then tell the company to (self censored) off.

 

Okay, I have read all the post and I believe it is time for me to jump right down in the middle of this here controversy.

First, what we have here is a failure to communicate. You are never to leave over gross. Never. The idea of driving to over gross and letting the fuel burn off is sometimes done but it should never be forced on a driver. You should have returned to the shipper and some of the product should have be removed from your trailer. You were told to take it back and have it reworked. You did that. They refused. This is where you should have backed the trailer into the dock and parked. Right there at the shipper. They would have had to unload something. Or you would still be in the dock when the next shift comes into work. At some point someone would have unloaded your cargo or someone would have had a truck come pump some fuel out of your tanks. Had you set there over night or over the weekend someone would have noticed. Then the companies would have fought it out. And you would have been paid detention. You would not have been fired because this is exactly the "Golden Ticket case". The courts have already ruled in a matter out in California about a trucker who refuse to haul gross and was fired. He got major dollars for it.

Now lets look at your part in this. I am betting you filled your tanks before you either picked up this load or before you scaled the load. Never do that. Always, if you have fuel, get your unloading and loading done first. Then scale and then and only then fuel.

I can tell by your tone that this whole thing p iss es you off. Well those of us with more experience would have handled this problem and wrote it down as no big deal. Anger makes one stop thinking. Returning to the drug business can get someone killed if you do your job angry. Take a breath and think. This should never have gotten to the point where you wanted to quit.

As to DAC there is no need to think that your former company will put anything on it as what you did was perfectly legal but perfectly avoidable. If you can't look yourself in the mirror and see where you made mistakes on this then trucking is not for you. When you get some years behind you, you will see that just calming explaining everything would have be easier.