Company wants me to rent A car to retrieve truck from dealership

I used to get paid to fly to the nearest airport and take a taxi (before Uber ) to the abandoned rig , finish the run and bring it back to the home terminal .
They didn’t fool with greyhound cause they wanted the load delivered and the rig back asap
Sometimes after I’d taxi to the rig I’d then have to call a road service if the rig had dead batteries or flat tire etc
No biggie . I got paid good and reimbursed for all my expenses .

yeah the truck was sometimes nasty

it ain’t the end of the world

the job I had previously was cleaning restrooms and picking up trash all day at a state park but retrieving abandoned rigs paid 5X as much as cleaning public bathrooms

 

You made the right decision, they actually did you a favor in a really messed up kind of way. You'll look back on this and laugh at how crazy the situation was. Minor bump in the road my friend. All the Best

 

The right decision would have been to tell them tough cookies, a driver is not under any obligation to get the truck unless they pay him from the time he leaves his house to the time he arrives back to their yard.

Going by bus is cheap, rent a car or fly and rent a car to get it, but be paid.

You all need to stop acting like the driver is obligated or it matters, it is not abandoning a truck when the truck is not in your control.

 

There aren’t all that many Lease Purchase folks running around (you can tell the LP drivers by the truck number). There are a decent number of Owner Operators, but a very solid majority of the trucks are company drivers.
I *think* that the lease-purchase program has shrunk. I know CDavis is doing it and I have met some new l/p drivers in the couple of years I have been here but from what I expected based on the early pages of the FCC thread I expected to be tripping over lease purchase guys everywhere.

 

thats exactly what i would do. dont burn the one bridge.