So here is my question, I've been turned in to dac for load abandoned.

Suuuuure, trying to save face after you already went to the politically incorrect way... don't be a Richard!

 

If you do that you must have a safety issue or legal hos problem which should be discussed with dispatch before saying you can not. Otherwise you are cherry picking the loads and the other drivers have to cover for you. It is only being fair to all the drivers and if someone is entitled to get the best loads because they think they should is a very good reason for the actions by the company.

 

As far as bad loads, Dispatch who I ran for over the years were generally aware of it, but usually built a sort of a reward for after that awful load is off the truck. Sometimes I got to choose among 5 destinations anywhere in the USA if there were that many loads or some other form of reward worth doing with my time.

I guess I have to say that I ran Jersey and NYC along with Philly early on in my time my first year and literally got a education because I did not know how to be afraid of anything with one particular exception when I got lost at night in Patterson. A bar filled with another race told me two things, one how to get to the shipper and two not to be darkening that door ever again. I did research and apparently they are still suffering from the 68 riots in that area.

But again, Jersey aint that bad. If you knew how to work around it's rather difficult places.

 

You never went to the shipper, you never signed anything for the load, all you did was told dispatch to pound sand. I think you're ok. Load abandonment is just that. Abandoning a load that's already on your trailer. Might need some 'splain' , tho to the next boss, but you told them "No Jersey" and they did it anyway. Probably a blessing.

 

Actually his words ain't that hard to follow if you simply read it correctly he'd already delivered his load and was empty and refused to reload, so is that still classified as load abandonment? I think that's what he's trying to say, he never ever picked up a load so how could it be load abandonment? Different story if he'd loaded up drove the truck a few hundred miles and then just parked up the truck at some truck stop and took off and quit, then that would be load abandonment.

 

Companies go through processes to secure a load to keep them busy and to say no to a load after it has been booked is going to give a company a demerit. He said he did not want to run in that area and they still tried to get him to pick it up... this is trucking, beggars can not be choosers.

 

That is why I stated hard to follow. Others are better at cutting out the whine and get to the point than I am.

 

How great was the pay for the company to beleave anything on dac?

 

If he won't run to Jersey that's his choice.
If he took a job that advertised, "NO JERSEY" he obviously took it thinking hey this is great for me, or maybe he worked something out when he was hired saying "I'd love the job but I can't do Jersey my mother in law lives there and she'll sniff me out and be cooking me #### for dinner the second I hit the state line" then he's definitely not the one in the wrong.

After his first run there he deals with it and tells the company he won't be putting up with that crap and it's not what they agreed on. When they try to send him there again he quit.

I see absolutely nothing wrong with that if it's the case. If he had an agreement with his employer or the employer advertised easy territories they broke their word and the guy said enough and left.
Doesn't matter if YOU would "man up" and take the load, this thread is about the guy with the terrible grammar who got hit with an abandonment.
I'm sure many of you may have agreed and taken a job pulling a van or reefer, what would you do if your company randomly gave you a flatbed one day. Im sure many of you would quit, because you had an agreement with your company that you'd be pulling reefers/vans.
Don't judge preferences. Judge their word. Even if it is spelled terribly.

Also plenty of good jobs out there that don't give a #### about DAC. You only lost out on one.

 

If you're a company driver I doubt you can do anything .You should have just went to Jersey.You're in the lower east coast for god sakes ou think you'll find a gravy load.Also you're hired to pick up and deliver loads if there's a certain city you don't wanna go to then don't apply for that job.