My Company owes me 2 paychecks and can't fund fuel to get me home

While I get what you are saying, I don't agree. Mainly as I don't see the op as abandoning the truck. I see it as the company as letting him go. After all, if he's not getting paid, he's no longer working for the company anyway.

At that point, he has zero obligation to help either the company he previously worked for, or any business they did business with.

Should he get ahold of the lien holder? Sure, but only for the opportunity of getting paid to move the truck. No pay? Well, he's currently unemployed so why should he be giving away time that could be used to look for a job?

 

Look into other jobs ASAP and explain what has happened and what you are doing now.

 

If it were me In the OP's position, I would be concerned about and assume the truck owner hasn't paid anything to keep the truck moving. Insurance,etc....I wouldnt move the truck any further than where it currently sits. Who needs that liability on them "if" something were to go sideways?

 

Oh, it's worse than that! Even in my example from earlier, I told my friend he should have never put his business on the line like that just to do such a speculative investment that to be honest did not pay that much in a risk/cost situation. One of the largest gripes from my days as a driver was the sometimes imbecilic indifference managers had toward how it was to be out on the road dependent on them for things. I quit one of my jobs many years ago because of this.

In this that you quoted, I was not in any way defending the owner. What I was attempting to say was if the company was already out of business who knows what is happening. However, there is no excuse for not at least giving the drivers instructions and letting them know what is going on.

 

More often then not if there has been a lapse of insurance it happened a while before the shutdown. State permits and registrations normally are paid up for the year. The biggest thing on a shutdown of operations is the insurance as you stated and as @REO6205 mentioned is truck and equipment payments.

On a forum like this one, you are going to run into every position you can imagine. From tell the owner/lienholder to ram it and some might actually physically try, to the voice of calm advising the driver to stay professional. As I said and have some posting history saying this. I used to do truck recovery. I got out of the job because it was a really sad depressing job. As a recovery driver, I was most of the time the one stuck un(redacted) the situations left by the drivers. I had tractors so damaged all I could do was call and have them towed. I remember one such truck left at a Truck Stop in New Mexico that looked like someone had used the windows for target practice.

As a driver, there is a way you can get a rig to a secure place like an impound lot if you will at least try. leaving a truck out unsecured is not really harming the people you worked for. All you are doing is making life heck for the poor sap that comes along later cleaning the mess up.

I will say if a driver decides to leave equipment at a truck stop do not inform the truck stop, just lock it up and leave. The recovery agents can get keys.

 

Copy that Moose, I can see how that wouldnt be the most uplifting job to hold. I wasnt implying that he should leave the truck at a truck stop, if thats how it came across, maybe I should have been a bit clearer there. I certainly wouldnt want to be driving if things have lapsed etc as you mention.

 

I never thought ANYONE was defending the owner.

 

It's all good. I keep thinking about what happened with Arrow Trucking. I actually gave money to help get drivers home. Horrible situation. Most any of the members here that were driving then remember this. That criminal got off easy too.

 

Find a mini storage complex with locked access and room for bigger vehicles. Figure on a deposit and fee, leave it there. Take photos. Get some money from the douche bag to pay at the complex. Don’t tell him what the money is for. Get fuel money and put it on the storage fees. Text your old boss the info and leave.