To put in my two weeks or not to put in my two weeks, that is the question

I have always given my notice and I have always been told the same thing on the last day. "If you ever need a job come back and see us".

 

Yup. If you're departing on good terms, travel VERY light as you head out from the house prior to giving your notice just in case they say "If you're quitting, bring it to the yard now and just go." It doesn't matter if you're home weekly or monthly, make sure you have only the bare essentials with you when you give that notice. You might run out those 2 weeks...but they'll likely route you in at their earliest convenience.

 

No 2 week notice needed for OTR drivers,

 

Respectable outfit deserves respect... you answered your own question.

 

Always give notice even if they dont deserve says more about you!

 

That just gives then the opportunity to strand you 2,000 miles from home. If it's a respectable company that's not an issue. If they don't deserve it, well don't put yourself at risk of getting home.

 

If you've had a good relationship, give notice. I've had several opportunities thrown my way after giving notice, one of which was a 2 year dedicated run that had me home on the weekend. That was the happiest 2 years I've ever had OTR

 

The moment you give notice, your value to company is less than Zero. You will be routed to a yard asap, stripped of your equiptment and told bye bye and shown the door. It is up to you going home on your own resources. It might even happen the same day you gave your notice.

In trucking, you secure a hire date or orientation with the next driving job for the following week and then get out after turning in your truck, cards etc. And go home on your own dime. When we left FFE, we were routed to memphis, disinfected detailed the tractor, turned it in, rented a car and three hours later home. Within about 3 days of giving notice. Which worked out all around. We were running into McKesson the following monday.

In the past drivers were disposible. Companies kept people dedicated to recovering trucks anywhere in the USA. You might have had the problem of sitting in Little America truckstop and have potentially a Nation to cross yourself to get home. It was customary to have resources carefully saved and ready at any time to get home from anywhere in the USA by any means possible. Be it bus, plane, rail or ship or rental car.

I did a great deal of tractor recovery across texas in my time for the company and many of them had to be inspected very carefully for stabotage and the qualcomm inventoried for rants, bad words and accuastions as these drivers quit and were removed from the truck wherever it might be.

If you are in very good graces with the people in superviosing positions above you and give notice, you might be kept busy until the quit date given. But you have to stay on em to make clear you are not accepting anymore loads up to 30 hours prior to quitting becuase that will be written into DAC as abandoment under load which will #### you from being hired for a long time.

The moment your work stopped from dispatch and you are no longer employed, you will know it really fast. You will be sitting somewhere wondering now what? No loads, no dispatch, no money, hardly any fuel alloted and so on while dispatch decides where to route you. That will take a few hours. The silence is deafening.

 

Ask yourself one question. If they were to fire you would they give you two weeks notice?