Can I quit while on the road?

You sure can. Just one question for ya........how do you plan to get yourself and your belongings home??????

 

Well you could but depending on what you signed the company could charge you to recover the truck. They could also put equipment abandonment on your DAC. I would call your fleet manager. If you aren’t to far from home they should be willing to get you a rental car. If the equipment will be down for a long time they should reassign you to something else.

 

That's gonna happen occasionally. How long have you been a trucker? I feel like a prisoner for most of 20 years out here. You can quit anytime you want,slavery is illegal,but a lot of times it ruins your cdl carreer .And you'll probably have to find your own way home. Good luck whatever you do.

 

Truck abandonement will follow you around. You will reduce your job choices by 75% easily.

Find a way to get that truck to where they want it first.

 

4 days just ain't that long.

 

Long and unacceptable. Have a stern talk with dispatch, if they tell you off call the fleet manager. Go above their head. Tell them you want to work but dispatch won't let you. Better than truck abandonment. You have all the freetime to freely cry at them until they provide you work.

 

Don't quit. They will stick you with truck abandonment. Don't think you can drive that thing home either. That places you at risk of arrest for unauth use of vehicle. (I said risk..) these two can destroy your hireability.

Find the Officers supervising Dispatch, usually Head of Operations. Talk to him or her directly.

Stay there until that truck is fixed to your satisfaction. More than likely they will keep you in it now that's its fixed. Get going yer late. If they see that truck is a serious problem and breaks down again one state over, then the one solution might be a new truck, Remember it's costing them revenue and money too.

 

Did you ask for breakdown pay? If you making a few bucks sit it out.explore the area you at.

 

a newer driver with a truck abandonment on his record will have a very hard time finding any other driving job so stick it out