I believe i made a mistake

Unless your married to his Daughter I'd be taking care of your family first! Probably won't get that last check either. Think there's plenty of threads like that here!
Will be waiting the hear how this one goes!

 

Good luck, wherever you land.!

I worked for an O/O, who had probably a dozen tractors, and 20-25 flatbeds. The rates the truck made were on the bills that we received from the shippers, I could figure my 30% from there.

 

@Gunner75 if you live in Ohio or around that area and looking for a good company look athttp://www.kellerlogistics.com/drivers/

With 2 years experience they pay $1,000 a week, guaranteed. If you drive more then 2,500 miles a week they pay 43 CPM once you pass 2,500 miles. Less then 2 years they guarantee $800-$900. Home 3 out of 4 weekends. If they don't get you home on the weekend they pay $100 weekend layover pay. If they don't get you home 2 weekends in a row. Like me this is my second working weekend. They pay $200 weekend layover

 

An Oil leak if found during a DOT inspection could result in violations therefor points added to his CSA score so ya that's an issue that needs fixed now.
And

Ya repairs aren't cheap.
If the owner of the truck doesn't have a bankroll to cover unforeseen expenses he should have waited to purchase this truck until he does.

 

How is quitting under a load a crime? Bad business practice, yes, but a criminal offense?

 

Yes absolutely a criminal offense if the company chooses to press charges after recovering the rig and load.

There are loads in values well in excess of 100K and a number of them exceed 500K and a few one million dollars or more. Leaving a trailer filled with McKesson Narcotics billed to hospitals in a multistate region is something that will get you arrested because if the bad guys locate the abandoned trailer before your former company does there is going to be hell to pay.

Ive left a truck a time or two in my day, usually called it unauthorized use. And under the State Criminal Code if the company chose again to prosecute, it is a valid crime with it's penal code. And that is just a start.

You would consider holding a load hostage until they paid you. That too is a crime.

And any number of other possibilities in the realm of a disgrungled employee versus company while still under a load.

Remember we are moving and seeing a time in which now the company will press charges, get you arrested and ensure that your time on the road is over. If prision does not deal with you first by taking out however many years left in your life span.

Companies are getting really hard. And so the driver must be warned ahead of time before they do something foolish and unprofessional what is what. Ive been lucky. I once shut down a 3 million dollar assembly plant a few days decades ago. Over what? A missing paycheck on which bills have to be paid. Believe you me when I say they found the money later that day but the quitting was done and they had to dispatch a driver to get the trailer and another driver to my state to recover my bobtail.

You can be arrested for theft of bobtail too. If the company chooses to. They don't even have to do anything. The Law will run you down via qualcomm and haul you out of teh cab.

This is the dividing line between myself and the new generation just coming out of school. The things that I might or might not have done or talked about will not be the things allowed today with anyone in the current industry thinking. It's not going to be tolerated.

 

This is lunch counter chatter.

 

Lunch counter chatter?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...ad-mont-truck-stop-captured-article-1.1954977

http://missoulian.com/news/local/id...cle_356ac5a0-45f6-11e4-84d9-eb2577454e61.html

That is just a start. There are approximately 150,000 results in google related to companies charging drivers with a crime.

I don't mind sharing stories, But when you consider lunch counter chatter is disrespectful and does a disservice to many drivers who may not realize what a problem abandonment has become and what could be a result of that action should they be stupid to do so.