Bad company won’t let me quit. Advice?

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  1. Allow Me.

    Allow Me. Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    If you are under a load and quit before its delivered (even if you take the truck to a terminal) they will gig your DAC. Deliver any load you are under and then quit, even if dead heading back to a terminal. Also do not quit under dispatch (even if you haven't picked up the load yet).
     
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  3. Hazmat Cat

    Hazmat Cat Medium Load Member

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    Lmao these stories are always great
     
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  4. lovesthedrive

    lovesthedrive R.I.P.

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    Get a load near your home. Drop off the load and dont get the next load. Bobtail to your home and clean out the truck. Take the truck to the last destination and tell them thankyou for the fun. They will kick and scream at you. They did at me as well, they threatened all sorts of rude things. In the end they didnt bother. Some one else got to reclaim the truck from a conway yard. Granted they couldnt figure out to pay me while I was working for them.
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  5. lovesthedrive

    lovesthedrive R.I.P.

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    When I was out there with Western Express? There was a driver that had requested to let him leave. He was still driving for them 3 months afterr requesting termination. Good luck
     
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  6. bryan21384

    bryan21384 Road Train Member

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    When I worked for them, I didn't even tell them I was leaving. I had a cross country run from CA to Montgomery, AL. I drove the load all the way to the Birmingham terminal. I never delivered the load. I got a ride home Birmingham. I figure it was no big deal since I got it within 100 miles from delivery.
     
  7. 201

    201 Road Train Member

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    "Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, no need to be coy, Roy, just listen to me",,,, I'm done, keys are in the fuel tank,,:biggrin_25522:
     
  8. Cattleman84

    Cattleman84 Road Train Member

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    Deliver your load so all current dispatches are complete... Then drive straight to nearest terminal. Park right outside of the front office window. Walk to office door, open it far enough to smile politely at the receptionist, toss the keys on her desk. Walk off the property and get a plane/train/or bus ticket home. No words even need to be exchanged.
     
  9. rachi

    rachi Road Train Member

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    And there are drivers who say "always give the company notice that you are quitting". This is what happens sometimes when you do.
     
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  10. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    I wonder who started that rumor about a two week notice?
    Not true at all.
     
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  11. Bandit2910

    Bandit2910 Bobtail Member

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    When I left the company I’m with now I just waited until I was going home for home time then cleaned out my truck and drove it to their terminal with my wife following me and left keys in it then let my fleet manager know that I turned the truck back in and where it was, it was all good. Two years later they rehired me and I’m still with them no hard feelings.
     
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