Need advice, give 2 weeks, or not?

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  1. Dshutler

    Dshutler Bobtail Member

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    i just got hired for a new company orientation is in two weeks have already completed everything I need to give my employer a two weeks but I’m afraid I’ll be let go on the spot since I’m still training should I give a two weeks or just call them at the end of the week and say I’m done I need some advice
     
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  3. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    If your current employer is a trucking company, if you give notice be prepared to be dismissed on the spot. Have everything out of the truck and ready to travel before you walk up and give notice. Just in case. It's happens more often than you think.

    What I do is have a date on a two week notice, hold on to it the last day which is turned into HR AFTER my truck is cleaned out, fuel card etc turned in and so on. Before anyone is aware of it Im out the gate and going home for the next employer. QUIETLY.

    MAKE SURE you are back at that yard with the truck and trailer empty and clean ready to turn in. Document it pictures and who and what date and time you turned it in to. (Usually shop boss) etc. BEFORE you quit anything because trucking companies will destroy you via DAC for abandonment and other problems if they had to go fetch the thing.

    In your mind you have already quit, You have orientation coming up. Great. Be on your way you know? Don't drag this all out. They can get another driver in a hour to take over your rig. No problem. NEXT!....
     
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  4. olddog_newtricks

    olddog_newtricks Medium Load Member

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    Just keep quiet and tell them on your last day. If they decided to fire you for any reason ,do you think they'd give you the courtesy of 2 weeks?
     
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  5. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    I would give 2 week notice fully prepared they will ask you to leave when you give notice. I've always given 2 week notice.
     
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  6. willisl64

    willisl64 Light Load Member

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    Coming from an employers perspective on this...if you've been a good employee and have gotten along with your company, then everyone should be able to be adults about this. Give them their 2 weeks.
    If you have been impossible to get along with or are rough on equipment, of course they are going to ask you to leave immediately. They are probably thankful you quit because they know that they can do better.

    You know which type of employee you have been, if you're honest with yourself.
     
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  7. Moose1958

    Moose1958 Road Train Member

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    Because of the requirements of 391.23 I suspect your old carrier already knows or soon will. Can't really get around that. Best to just contact them and make it official. Most will rehire you on the spot if you were a good hand! You are good!
     
  8. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    What do you mean by "Still Training?"
     
  9. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    Absolutely.

    HOWEVER... Ive been with too many employers who did not value me or any of the hundreds of drivers they burn out each year. I remember one in particular where when I was hired after a 8 month effort with repeated interviews, tests and a battle to cure high BP etc I was bottom man of 224 drivers.

    6 months later I was number 35 or so. That was how fast we went through drivers. A month after that I was gone. Not exactly on the best of situations with them because I knew that if I stayed there one of two things must happen. One would be a total and absolute outlaw which isnt that good idea or I will kill a family trying to make it to Indianapolis overnight after spending all day in Allentown loading to the floor way beyond regular hours of service. So what am I to do? GTFO.

    If that particular employer had any memory of what it is like to have joy driving a big rig and deliver good things for a city to eat or perhaps use to raise up buildings and bridges for people to improve their lives etc then they had allowed the greed and rot to predate their brains at the Corporate Board level and forget themselves being too high and mighty to bother with the unwashed herd of drivers waiting on a cranky three person dispatch crew for loads that barely pays the cost of living in wages.

    You would think me to be bitter. But no. I refused to. When I quit and got home, my friends who I valued took me to a local club and we had a ball. That single night blew out the troubles and morale and rest restored my will to find a good employer and get to trucking. It's what I am. Only this time I require different things from the new employer... If I stop for the night because the logs say I have to, then I better not hear a #### thing from Employer except a new Appt time and date for delivery IF need be. Otherwise leave me be, that load will get there on schedule but it has to be done right.

    That year two employers looked at me in the old outlaw ways within the week if hire and said to me who are YOU, the little deaf trucker we gave a job to to talk to us in this way about Laws? (I walked out on them. They never showed up in the employment history thankfully.) and it would take a year and half to find better employers. I finally did late in my trucking time with good people. Those are the ones I will run through hell for.

    But to give them a two week notice? Absolutely. Did that and on the last day plus one the truck was sent to the yard and everything was in order. One employer made trouble to call my home now and then for 4 years wanting me to run again. But they did not know a team of doctors were working to fix the things that 20 years of no doctors except trauma and ER did not fix.

    This was a little bit of a speech I suppose. If I have to quit ten outlaw outfits to find one good employer worth a #### that is what I will do. I did it before and I'll do it again. I suppose that employer would have a loss because it will have to be ten hires before they find another one of me. However time and age takes it's toll and while my spirit is strong the body is not too happy when faced with 300 miles of wyoming in a winter night storm. It will need a hour at fort bridger for a proper meal and coffee in three thermoses before battle eastbound. It seems this industry cannot stand to be bothered to spare me that hour while I prepare for battle. What with the outrageous schedules and continually casterated trucks. It's not the same, the Joy itself is being regulated OUT of this industry.

    SO it is easy to quit and move to another employer. It is also easy to be abused and fired. Or not? No one knows really. Why risk it. That requires a deep cultural change which will probably never happen.
     
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