Truck abandonment? Help!

You are at a company ternimal, you both have resigned, no longer employees. Go get the rental clean out truck document everything, photo all and name names from those who explictly made threats.

That company should have a bunch of drivers sitting around the drivers room they can hand your old truck to them and ship them to Indy.

When DAC gets hit with abandonment, use a rebuttal with the evidence pertaining to your turning in, cleaning out who made threats etc (Charge 500 etc)

You have already resigned, quit gone outta here no longer in their employ. Youre both going home. You are due a last paycheck.

My post will cause a fight and probably still see you charged the 500. And so on. That you have to take up with the employment office. I don't know exactly who would be taking care of those kinds of complains of abuses or being dispatched when already quit no longer employees and the liability associated with such a move.

Imagine you took your 18 wheeler to Indy like you are told. Get into huge wreck or problem. Then find out you two are no longer employees etc and resigned etc. oh boy that's really bad. Don't go to Indy. Clean that truck out, get the rental car and get off of the property asap.

 

wait for a load to get the truck to the Indianapolis......

This could get complicated. Four days later we got a load for ya. It's on the way to Indianapolis by way of Dallas,Tx. Then you get under a load to Indie, we promise.

 

It's called a run around.

 

Define wait, couple of hours , or we're looking for a load?

 

No. The battles Ive fought were bigger than this.

You resigned, no longer employees, routed to a company ternimal. That's that.

What you want to do is take the names of specifically who threatened your DAC, your 500 dollars etc. document that most carefully. Photo date time gps stamp etc that shows truck in good conditon at that ternimal. You are finished there.

I cannot even think about the stupid company wanting to incur the liability of a free move or a unauthroized one in a 18 wheeler you no longer work for or have a right to use. That's theft potentially among other things. Being set up essentially.

Other poster brought up another thing, being run around.

No enough. You quit both go home with rental and move on. This too shall pass. You cannot live in fear. If you are, they have won already whatever it is. So stop it. Go home, decompress and look for another employer PREPARED for a bad DAC which you can pull on yourself and husband etc and if they did trash it you follow the rebuttal process with documentation take all that to your State's unemployment or labor department or even all the way to FMCSA via a lawyer who will quickly decide if you have something worth going after this big bad company.

I notice no one said the name of this outfit. That's good on one hand, none can claim defamation etc, and other hand we can only guess oh about a hundred companies big and small that do that sort of thing because again the little driver is so scared the big bad wolf gets away with it.

Im old. Nothing scares me much anymore. But what I do do is get angry. And THAT really causes problems with companies. Ive paid for that temper many times over. I have my own major issues in life and fighting a sort of warfare for keeps on that end. But that's our fight. It's related to what we have accumulated in wear and tear from trucking. But that's who I am, I'll do it again in a heart beat. But much more selective about who to run for and how etc.

I am sorry that you both are being treated badly. Whatever led up to this is already water under the bridge.

Husband wife teams are some of the most valued. And to see abuses like this Im not going to stand for it.

In this industry employment is at will by either employer or employee (One or married etc) You both exercised your will three days ago enough, quit resigned etc. Show good judgement and courage by moving forward. Go home. Decompress and make ready for round two.

 

When I have left companies, I have always asked the company where they want their truck returned to and did so.
This is the responsible thing to do.