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time to find another employer.

if that had been my wife and i, and some company told us WE CAN'T GET HOME, they would be told to....well...keeping it clean..POUND SAND.

you 2 are basically being bullied......get out.....

 

It won't get any better if you stay there longer. Time to move on.

If you let them get away with it once they will continue to take more every time.

Good luck.

 

You are not a slave, quit, find another company and ask them to pick up their own truck.

 

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Find another employer. That would be the best.

And accept the problem that you will never be home with a big truck in time for any important appointments. Short of Death, Childbirth and especially Court you are not going to be there. You just do not get that kind of treatment from any company in trucking.

I remember one time I was home for 4 days. However they flew a driver out to get my tractor trailer at great expense in those days to handle a jersey load and get it back to me empty.

The truck I got back had enough problems to require a few more days in the shop to fix before being DOT legal to run legally without the things the previous driver hurt it. And I don't think it was a profitable run at all for that employer to send a driver to get it and do a spot of Jersey work for a couple of days while abusing that thing and breaking almost a thousand dollars worth of stuff before handing it back to me to fix another two days before it's actually able to accept dispatch. That's called slip seating.

Every time I hae a tractor slip seated and returned to me, something is broken, will break or some other problem will become apparent given enough time to lose so much more in mr Fix it.

In short, that truck will have a doctor look at it any time. It's the Humans who have the worst time finding a doctor to be looked at. Humans do not have the valued respect that broken big trucks have.

 

What exactly do you need experienced truckers advice for? To tell you that if you don’t like it then you need to quit?

 

people quit all the time, contract or not.

yeah, they WILL ding your DAC/HireRight, but in the end, who really cares?

if you are under contract because you (and maybe hubby) got your CDL from them, they will demand payment for the balance. pay them $1.00 a month.

 

Sure you can. It's just a contract. Worse case you might owe them money.
More than likely even if you do you will be better off with a better paying job, or at least a job that's better for your health.

Also, read the contract. Unlikely, but they may have breached the contract by not allowing you to get home. Or better yet, get a contract lawyer to go over the contract and see if it can be broken in your favor.

But in either case, your health is more important than a few dollars. Heck, in the worst case play the card any business man will play when debt is too much. Go file bankruptcy and start over with a cleanish slate.