Is it over for me

I have to agree with the consensus here.You never quit under a load.Get your load off then quit.That being said you can send a rebuttal into dac or hire-right and the company has to respond in a certain amount of time or dac changes the report.It might be worth a shot as abandonment is a serious charge.

 

Count yourself luckey, you made a bad decision quiting under a load, enough said about that. I am happy your famialy is doing well. What I would do is get the phone book out and go from place to place and put in applications. Most decent companys don't advertise for driver. I am willing to bet that you can find someting in a day. Best of luck to you

 

Come on Mr.b you know that they don't, does any company out there?
Kinda sounds double sided don't it?

 

Piratetrucker, I have six years exp. driving concrete mixers, I would go around to the concrete co.'s in your area and give it a shot, start with the biggest first. The hours are Long but your home everyday and your never more than 100 miles from the house.. As far pay last year (was very slow) I made 39,000.00 and some change..... year before around 48,000.00 ... we have 7 paid holidays plus killer ins.

 

Yes u can, you can dispute anything on your DAC just like your credit buerau reports, most of the time these companies that do this r known to practice crooked by other companies anyway. Whatever u do stay away from CR England, they will promise u the world and do the same thing. no miles, no way to make money leagally.

 

Truck or load abandonment does not mean leaving the truck or trailer on trucking company property, if that where the case then every time you quit and left the rig at the terminal that would be abandonment. Truck or load abandonment means somewhere other than company property. Once a truck and trailer (loaded or empty) is delivered to company property it's their responsibility.

The DAC system was originally supposed to be a safety system for tracking accidents, tickets, and drug and alcohol problems with drivers, but as most all know it has become an oppressive, unfair abusive system that some unethical and unscrupulous evil-hearted trucking company employers use to abuse and retaliate against drivers for often times minor or even fictitious reasons.

I believe this is why the D.O.T. is instituting their own driver safety reporting system over that horrible DAC system. The D.O.T. will rate drivers based on across-the-board set of guidelines that will be fair compared to the fictitious DAC system that is being manipulated by some angry sociopaths that work in some trucking company offices.

The DAC is a private for profit company and is not concerned about the validity of its reports, only the money it makes from the fairytale files it keeps. The sloppy and inaccurate record keeping and reporting by DAC is only harming the trucking industry, not helping it. The DAC will be history once the D.O.T. gets it system operational (lets all hope). There is no excuse for this type of widespread abuse in America today and it needs to be stopped, hopefully the D.O.T. is doing just that.

 

CSA 2010 will have no effect on DAC at all . FMCSA is only concerned with regulation violations not violations of company rules like abandonment or even theft . Those are the things DAC reports .

 

I think CSA 2010 goes further than that. The score will include things such as how many jobs a driver has had, of all things. Theft and abandonment are not safety issues they are character issues and I don't think the D.O.T. is concerned about that. My point was that DAC has become a source of retaliation. I stand by my comments that the DAC system is harming the trucking industry not helping it.

I think that theft and abandonment should be included, but when some unethical trucking company staff choose to abuse the DAC system then the system is useless and needs to be replaced.

 

It is obvious that the original poster isn't cut out to be a trucker. The guy said his wife miscarried and his wife called him and he went running home, like there was something he could do about it. Dont' get me wrong - I feel sorry for the guy and his wife, but there is nothing he could do about it - The Lord took his child. I could understand if his wife was about to die, or his child was about to die, or his house burned down, or he actually needed to be home to handle some business, and even then, he should have talked to them about the situation and let them get him home.

It is obvious that the guy was looking for a reason to go home. I will say this and shut up about it: If he talked to them and they asked him to deliver the load and they would get him home or wait a couple of hours so they could figure out something, then he was obligated to help them help him. But, if they blew him off, then they were wrong. I'll put my money on the first scenario. He probably had some issues with the company, didn't keep records, and never tried to talk to them about it, and was just fuming mad ready to go home at the next opportunity.

Again, I hate to be a richardhead, but we live in America, and the Almighty $ rules this country. You can try and put family first, God first, or anything else first, but you have to have $ in this country. Even your church has to have $ to function. Sorry, that is the way it is, and I hate it too. When you run out of $ you'll know what I am talking about.

 

Sir, I think you are the most cold blooded person I have ever seen posting on this site. You call a woman having a miscarriage a BAD DAY? There is no job on earth that means more to me than my family. I would not care about the trucking company's problems or their #### DAC report because my family is above all. Unless you are a one trick pony there are other things to do besides drive a truck, and before I would let trucking come between me and my family I would run, not walk, away from trucking.