Is this abandonment?

Just tell em your done, get me a load headed for the barn, and please have my last settlement check waiting.

 

Work toward your home. Drop off your belongings except for bare minimum to get back to Cali. Then drive to Cali and fly home.

 

And then find a job closer to your home domicile. Working for a company on the other side of the country has it's disadvantages.

 

A note to drivers, if you want to know why you guys are treated like a commodity, here is the thing about this subject.

This will offend many of you, so get over it.

YOU are handed a truck that is worth a lot of money, it isn't a responsibility taken lightly so you just don't abandon it.

You can complain that the company is unfair and that it is not right to have that little abandonment thing on your record but because it isn't a cheap piece of equipment is why there are ways to document what you do for others to know what happened and not face a risk of you doing that to them.

IT IS your responsibility to make sure that property is returned, NO ONE ELSE. ​

If the OP doesn't like his company, then ask for a run to go back to the company or at least communicate about the issues and see if you can come up with an compromise to get you out of the company without the problems of abandonment.

Respect those who gave you the job at least to the point where they refuse to work with you - remember the OP won't say what the issues are. It could be like another driver who posted within a couple days ago, that she didn't like how the company worked, another one I read was concerned about the load and just did what the company told him to do but he could have refused the load. The fact still remains that no one makes a slave out of a driver except the driver themselves when they surrender themselves to the BS and refuse to act as they can legally act.

Go to also add this - many driver refuse to talk to a company, thinking that it isn't their job, but in fact it is prudent to communicate with the company when things arise. It shows you tried when it comes to issues like this.

AND to the OP, don't do a stupid thing like talk to the media, that just shows how bad it is in this industry and why we need to thin the ranks a lot.

 

I've never understood why drivers get jobs so far away from where they live.In NC there 1000 s of companies there for the most part all the same and some guys will take a job from some company half way across the country that has no terminal even in the state but I quess I missing something.

 

most popular response i hear from drivers & company pukes is.......trucking has always been like this. alot of people complain in this industry but do nothing about it. i think it was Einstein who said " doing something the same way every time & expecting a different result is insanity". so who among us wants to step up & make a difference?

 

I worked for a company that told me to leave the truck parked where it was and go home. I had to ride a bus 2000 miles home. They tried to say I abandoned the truck. That's a whole story in itself. Point is, the tiny 1 or 2 truck guys, that's a scary thing. No offense to you small owner ops here. But I bet the ones who really are doing well in the game are not hiring people from ads in the paper or online for their second truck. There is a reason no friends or family will drive for some guys.

 

Returning, as in that is where you picked the truck up? Maybe try to get a run back as close as you can get?

 

Before I drove the truck back (and that is the right thing to do ) make sure he is up to date on insurance premiums etc. Last thing you need is to have a fender bender or worse and find his coverage has been revoked. CYA. Then take the truck back.