Iowa Atlantic LLC - Driver missing!

guess you guys should give a driver more of a fuel advance......

 

No doubt......there is no excuse for that....first off to blow your fuel money and then not make your appointment because you're afraid to admit you screwed up..........

 

There are usually 2 sides to every story ... we don't know this driver's situation.

 

I agree with Zen. The guy has no fuel money but idles for 3 days before calling anyone?,the OP is most likely leaving something out.

He was a guy working for a broker that most likely wasn't paying the guy his rightly settlement. Knowing he's(the missing driver) going to leave or get fired(for persuing his money) he shuts down for three days and says the "hell with it". Takes the advance on the fuel money and puts it in is pocket. Then figures out that in three days there will be more money on the fuel card and he can get moving again all the while pocketing what he was owed. He sits without so much as a phone call simplyfor retribution.

 

Thats a fact years ago I had a broker owe me money so I waited a few years and trip leased another from him got the advance and called back an hour later and said thanks for the past money you owed me good bye.
Havent ever heard a thing about it so i guess the taker got took

 

He parked his truck at the Petro in Atlanta and abandoned it so he could run off with some dopers and get high.

Another unemployed dummy who will eventually show up on these boards crying the blues because his bad ol' boss screwed him.

 

This is not a real uncommon story.

Guy in Jacksonville FL at that little convience store truck stop on the west side of town maybe 10 years ago was selling fish out of the back of his truck and had a commercial baby doll AND her pimp in the truck staying high in several ways when the state and his boss finally found him!

Because it was fish and had something to do with some sales law, the Fish and Game first stopped to check on paper work when the situation got out of hand when the pimp pulled a gun then it all rolled down hill on him!

Back in 93 when that Bird flu hit I caught it and made it into the Flying J in W. Memphis and was barely able to walk into the building to call dispatch to tell them where I was. I bought a bottle of Nightquill and Gatoraide and stayed in the truck for 3 days untill one of the other drivers came and woke me up! I had never been that sick in my life! It actually knocked every driver in the company out as it started in the office where we all were as we always came through once a week!

I've watched the fire department on two occasions pull a driver out of a truck after they were found dead from naturl causes. One had been missing for over a week. The only reason he wasn'y found earlier was he was parked close to the trash container in the summer and it covered up the smell until someone notices the flies in the tractor. Not a pretty sight and I feel for the EMTs Police and the firemen!

The other guy was found by an alert driver. He had noticed the truck the day before parked with the unit running but later the next day (this was at Seconi's Truck Stop in CT on 95 so freight was slow) he noticed water comming out of the drain holes in the floor of the reefer and he coiuld tell it was ice covering chicken from the smell. The window was open on the cabover so he climbed up the side of the truck and saw the driver in the sleeper and he called to him a few times then reached in and shook him only to find he had died. It was left up to the police and firemen to do their job again. He had been missing for several days also.

I guess there are times when we all need to watch whats going on around us. if laid over somewhere which we all knows happens look at who's parked around you. Look at the tires and see if there is sand and small trash building up around them showing that the truck hasn't moved in severa days. Do not be afraid to make a call to the name on the door and ask if they are missing a truck or trailer. Heck there just might be a reward out for it! OR you might relieve a families worry about a lovedone.
Yes we have all this new technogoly but all that stuff can be turned off, blocked or batteries can die not to mention some of these stupid "laws and rules" about NOT using LoJack or GPS for priviacy concerns.

The truck in CT had LoJack and the wife and daughter had tried to get them to activiate it but because they were not the "owners" of the unit they would not do it!
Because of this I told my service provider that if my wife needed to find my phone they were to give the info. Now all you need is a comput4r and the passwords and that problem is solved! Well that is unless you can't keep ole Woodie where he belongs then you might have a problem!

As for the OP's story.... I'll bet he did one of several things to blow through that cash!

Drugs
Drink
paid horozinal enterttainment
gambling
the old cherry master
chrome
big arsed CB

 

he must have been on a heck of a lizard roll too spend all his fuel money

 

Got to give him one point for walking home from the bar instead of driving home.