Leaving truck at terminal

Company SHOULD have the truck cleaned before a new driver gets it.

Yeah, throw away your garbage and pee-jug, but you don't need to detail it.

If a company puts you in a dirty truck, you need to reconsider working for them.

 

i have never worked for a company, that has cleaned a truck before i took over.

 

Really? Our company pays two guys with a water truck to wash trucks at the terminal on weekends. They get $10 to "detail" (sweep out and armor all) trucks for new drivers.

If other companies do not does this it's because they don't have the resources. I think I'm going to buy a water truck and hit up the major terminals down in Charlotte- "hello mr. Schneider, i have a proposal that will help you retain your drivers and it won't involve turning your trucks up to run over 59 mph."

 

i have worked for a big LTL company, a medium sized long haul company and several regional carriers. none of them detailed the inside, but they did power wash them, once per month. all these companies had the money (resources) to do it all, they just did not.

 

No it's not. I had a former student turn her truck in at Roehl to her local terminal, then quit. As long as you're not under dispatch it's not abandonment. Obviously giving notice is the best way otherwise you're burning a bridge and shouldn't be done unless absolute last resort.

 

When I quit van wyk they got 2 weeks notice and I returned the truck to Sheldon ia ..spotless .
They returned the favor by putting me up in a motel for the nite of my last day and the next morning gave me a ride to the souix city airport to rent a car .
It's a 2 way street most of the time but not always .
When I quit h@m they got 2 weeks and truck returned to Omaha clean and the sobs wouldn't even give me a ride to council bluffs.

 

Let’s say you get back to the main terminal in Dallas(Stevens transportation) with load under you. You just coming for safety classes and such. You decide to Pack up all your stuff and leave. I know is not professional but it’s not abandonment right?

 

Depends on the company, but most will call it abandonment. You did after all leave an undelivered load sitting around.
Best thing to do is try and get the load off you. Shouldn't be too hard at a terminal. Once the load is relayed then you can quit without abandonment.