Can I just leave my job without 2 weeks notice to go into trucking?

Quit after you have DOT physical done and an orientation date set. Till then don't tell them anything.

 

Doesn't matter what everyone else does. My name is important to me. I have never worked out a two week notice. I have, however, always finished my schedule. If they put the new schedule for the following up on Thursday, I'd notify the manager BEFORE the new schedule is posted.

What difference does it make? It's a piece of crap job that pays no money, and he hates the job. Just leave!

Sounds like quite a few trucking jobs, doesn't it? Should he abandon his truck or finish his scheduled run? The principles are the same, right?

And here we have the age old battle of ethics at TTR. When that goofball blogged about his dispatcher threatening him to make him run while tired, some of you rallied behind him and others wrote him off as another loser. Who was right? Well, didn't the guy accept the load assignment? If he accepted responsibility, shouldn't he do what he said he would do?
There was a thread on Calling in Sick. Another heated discussion. Several members were called supertruckers because they stated that never in their careers did they call a customer to tell them that they would not ever call or have ever called a customer to tell them that they were to sick to deliver a load that they'd accepted.

The law doesn't matter. Big business doesn't matter. The thing that does matter is the name on the side of the driver's door. The wealthy people of the world generally gain their wealthy because of their father's name. The rest of us only have our own name. Mr Pizza Delivery, what name are you trying to build for yourself? Or are just just shuffling over to your next job?

 

I've quit many jobs. Usually given a two week notice, then 'quit' after 1 week. At least they knew in advance.

It's not a requirement, just a courtesy thing. But it can effect whether or not you can be rehired, and can effect other things pertaining to the place as well. For example, when I leave my current job at an amazon.com warehouse, if I give a proper two weeks notice then they will refund my vacation time that I have accumulated and can be rehired. OR, If I hand in a formal resignation and take the kinda-severence pay of $4000 for quitting after graduating CDL school, then I can't ever be rehired.

As for people saying it could result in bad things happening at future employers. lol. Just don't include them on your application if you think they will have a negative impact. If you actually *have* to fill the time slot and don't want to just say you were unemployed, then make up a business and say the reason for leaving was 'went out of business' and don't provide a phone number or address (or only provide the city and state) for the place.

 

I highly doubt they DESERVE a notice, but it's an image thing of YOU if it's your last job prior to trucking make the assumption that a new job WILL call the last place you say you've worked for 4 years. Don't do that to a reference. It's about your image as a person and an employee, not about courtesy to Pizza Hut. I'm at about the 95% hired mark with a new company just did my drug test, I'm going to pass and I'd LOVE to give my current job the finger and leave but as much as the job sucks and my paycheck along with it, my boss is a good guy and just walking screws somebody that's been good to me and wrecks a reference. It's just not worth it.

 

One thing about just quiting and walking away, your young and hopefully you will have a long life ahead of you, be careful about burning bridges, at some point you may have to cross that way again.

Besides, there is a certain satisfaction that you get from finishing your notice and shaking a mans hand on good terms when you leave.

 

I've had dozens of jobs in my career. Almost always I've given two weeks notice, in some case a month or more. It really depends on the level of responsibility you have with a company. In one case I gave two weeks notice when I was the cost estimator for a packaging company and leaving to work with a direct competitor. The general manager sweetened the deal for me to stay on for a month so I could finish a fully automated Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet (remember THAT dominant spreadsheet?) so anyone in customer service could do a cost estimate in a few minutes. I delivered the project on the last day, complete with a 100 page manual and instructions for my replacement to update the spreadsheet with new costs in the hidden lookup tables.

On the other hand when I've been fairly low on the totem pole on a job where I could be easily replaced I've given as little as a day's notice or less. When I departed Swift early last week I gave notice on the day I went through the process of turning in the truck at a terminal.

 

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In 1990 the US Army sent me to school to learn how to use that program so I can automate our unit's inventory. Holy cow I'm old!

 

I am kind of in the same boat. But I do plan to give a two weeks notice, but before I do that, I want to use up the last of my Vacation since I will not take one for a while.

I plan on living for Earl Henderson's CDL classes on June 22nd and I will be giving my two weeks before I leave. I do have issues with my management, but I love the people I work with. I am in a position of leadership (forced into it) but I have told the guys under me that I will most likely be leaving in June, and I have already told one of my supervisors. I know that when I leave, my management will try to negotiate for me to stay, but I want to live closer to family out west and my management have currently denied me the transfer to Nevada.

You should at least put in your two weeks notice.

 

Many jobs like that don't even do 2 weeks... I was a utility locator for USIC and I gave them two weeks, they resigned me on the spot, but bluejet, if what you are saying is true, and you did serve... GET HELP before you do anything else... at some point it will affect your work and social life. As an Iraq veteran myself, I am still trying to get PTSD counseling