Exit plan

Where is your location; we'll help you find a good job.
All you have to do is apply; then when you're accepted; quit the company you're currently with.

 

This how I quit jobs. They already know you're looking. They will get you back to Green Bay or wherever your home terminal is eventually. Keep running, keep a few dollars in your pocket, line up a job in the mean time, once you get to your home terminal, quit. Take the bus home or to the town of your next orientation. According to your other threads, they can't wait to get you off the payroll so it wont be long before you get back to the terminal

 

Which state is your cdl from? That's what companies look at.

 

Send in a Qualcomm message advising that the current delivery schedule is impossible, but you will take the load if someone replies acknowledging that the load is impossible.

Do not answer your phone. Require all communication be by electronic device. Take photos of the messages sent and received.

If your dispatcher gets abusive on the Qualcomm, well, forward it to his boss.

 

It might simply be that your dispatcher hates dealing with complete newbies, and wants to keep a bunch of more productive drivers on their team. They might not get paid based on the miles and quality of service you give the customers, but their annual review **certainly** includes lots of metrics based on driver performance.

 

This does not help with an exit strategy, hopefully you have a place to lay up a few days to a couple of weeks, or at least the bucks to stay somewhere.

 

Get approved for 2 weeks off/vacation. The end of the day before your time off starts give 2 week notice. I've always given 2 week notice but I've also only worked for companies that allow me to work a 2 week notice. It's a lot easier that way.

 

I got my first job with zero. Quit there at 3 weeks, no trouble getting the next.


One of my best friends has about a dozen trucks. Oil delivery, dumpster hooklift, local daycab tractor and landoll, several rollbacks, and 2 wreckers. Counting him there are only 3 drivers when he needs ten. Little local operations where you sit at the lunch table with the owner and become family, is where the shortage is. Its not at swift. Theyll find another dozen kids tomorrow and get that year each out of them.

You dont need to read the want ads, the places that need drivers worst have just given up and are driving longer hours themselves. Go where you see trucks, walk in, ask if there is an extra truck they want you in. Easy.