DO NOT WORK FOR RYNO TRUCKING!!!!

Ryno moved into Linville, Va a few months ago and started running ads on Craigslist for drivers. Linville, Va is just a few miles north of Harrisonburg, Va, off the beaten path. But anyway, I wondered about the company, glad you came along and posted what you did.

I have often wondered about a company withholding wages and charging for picking up abandoned trucks. Most states have "at will employment" and I take this on face value, meaning an employee can leave anytime, anywhere, just as the employer can terminate anytime, anywhere. If this be so, is withholding wages and charging for picking up the abandoned truck legal??

You might want to give Paul (Opie) Taylor a call. Mr. Taylor is a lawyer with Truckers Justice Center. All Mr. Taylor does is handle cases for truckers. Last phone # I have for him is 651-454-5800. Get on the Internet and pull his website up. Worth your time. That is, if you never signed any authorization allowing them to take this type of action. If you signed authorization allowing such action, you are probably out of luck.

 

I gave a trucking company a notice once.Found myself in Dallas Texas. To bad I live in NC. Never gave a notice again.

 

Your fist mistake was paying someone $1000.00 just to work for them. HUGE red flag. Your second mistake was giving this guy a two week notice. Under “normal conditions” a two week notice would be the right thing to do. But not with companies like this. These are fly by night bottom feeders that absolutely do not give a #### about professionalism or doing what’s right. If they did they wouldn’t ask for a thousand bucks up front. Lesson learned.

 

1. Never give a security deposit.
2. Never give notice until AFTER you’ve cleaned out the truck.

 

First mistake was abandoning truck.
If you want to get out of the truck and quit. Bring truck back to terminal.

Now your DAC may be screwed.

I've drove home 600 miles after I dropped truck at terminal. But I waited to be picked up before I drove a car home.

 

Fly by night, small, bottom feeder carriers, don’t use DAC (HireRight) services. So any abandonment won’t even show up on the HireRight transcript.

Secondly: An abandonment on your record is NOT necessarily the death of your trucking career. I’ve had three abandonments in over 25 years and they come off over time, meanwhile there are companies that will still hire you in spite of an abandonment. The bottom line here is if you’re placed in a situation where you have no choice but to abandon the truck then you gotta do what you gotta do. NEVER. I repeat, NEVER, let someone hold you hostage by threatening to put something on your dac if you don’t do this or don’t do that. Life goes on. And so will you. Hopefully you’ve learned from this. That’s the beauty of making mistakes. They’re necessary for growth. It’s part of how we learn.

 

I don’t agree with abandoning a truck, but I agree 100% with about not letting some jack wagon threaten you.

This is what *I* had to do once. I told this outfit in writing over the Qualcomm to “tell me where you want the truck parked”. They did and I took a picture of the messages.

That protected me from the possibility of the abandonment b.s.