Asked to get off truck after 2 weeks training, is it abandonment?

Who said it would be?

 

And what are you doing while he walks the dog? Are you walking with him or doing the pretrip that you should already know how to do?

Are you involving yourself in the trip plan or are you sitting there passively?

I'm quite positive the trainer is a lazy bum, but you don't seem like a self starter either. You let little things irritate you and build up until you lost your cool and made an irrational declaration at a time and place where no satisfactory resolution could be made.

Whatever you chose to do, start taking ownership of your life and your choices. There is a lot in life we can't control, but we can control our reactions. Good luck.

 

Just ask for another trainer, for those newbies reading this later.
Nobody has a shorter temper than I, but setting yourself on fire isn't how you get back at the boss.

 

Convincing you how the company determines the situation is not necessary, important, or relevant. You walked away, they deal with it however they wish. Make better choices, like talking to the company, before you blow up.

 

20-somethings have been pampered & now it's our job to rub their back & sweet talk them if anything unpleasant happens. It's the law or something. /sarc

 

It's not 20 somethings. It's 20 to 70 somethings. Some of the most entitled sobs to come through my truck have been in their 50s and 60s. The 20 somethings annoy the heck out of me and listen to bad music, but that's because they don't know any better. They haven't had a chance to learn how to work yet. I just break out my flip flop and they tend to learn quick.

 

At my first company I left after 17 days with their trainer (see my first post on ttr). I moved to another company for 6 months. Then moved again to a dedicated run with a third company. 4 years later I moved again.
I now have a local driving job delivering shingles, working the same hours as I did over the road, but making twice as much.
The local company hires new CDL graduates. You just can’t be afraid of a little work.

Long story short if you were not a team it won’t be abandonment. I left 2 different companies between loads and never was accused of abandoning a truck. Just make sure you are dropping the truck at a company hub before leaving.

 

Probably not abandonment. As a student, you're assigned to the truck but the truck isn't assigned to you. Technically, they might could put on your record that you quit while under load. But if I were you, I'd be more concerned that that they put it as a termination for policy violation. As with any other job, you're expected to give some kind of formal notification when you quit.

If you don't actually tell the office that you're quitting, then you didn't really quit. You just no-called/no-showed to work. Telling a coworker that you're quitting, which is basically what your trainer is, and then walking off the job, is not the same as notifying your manager. Yes, he'll tell them you quit, and they can put it as resignation if they want, but they can just easily put it as a termination. In trucking, that will follow you.