Quitting a job with ones days notice?

Local ain't cut up as some say is it op?
Go back to a company that you are a number and not a name.

One that isn't up your ###. You'll be happier and you said you'll make more money to.

You are like me. Eff that local stuff.

 

I've found that most don't deserve any notice at all. First I would talk to them and see if they will let you change to a different route. If they say no then I would move on.

 

Worse 9 years of my 60 years of driving were working local. I despised every minute of it, but I had a goal to reach and once I reached it, I headed for the door.

 

I don't understand why you can't give a 2 week notice. Don't drive faster at work than required to be CERTAIN you are NOT going to hit anything. NOBODY, not even the company saying you are working fast enough wants you to hurry up and hit something. Go slow when backing, check your mirrors. When taking corners or turns check your mirrors and SEE you are not going to hit anything. If you are wiling to give one day notice of quitting, why not 2 or 3 or 5? If you think doing that job mmeans you will eventually hit items, or hit more items, I guess it would be better to quit before you hit something.

Do you think your hitting stuff, if you have hit anything, or your pace is related to backing? Is it related to going around corners? If your difficulty is related to one of these areas backing and going around corners is sort of part of the job. If you haven't received enough training to back or corner as you or the company wants, does it seem like improvement will come with more practice? I'm not clear what the problem is, so I can't offer better suggestions. Some newbies just simply decide they don't like a particular trucking job and just bail out instead of finding the specific things they don't like and trying to get better at those things, which makes the job less stressful. We can try to help, but we need more info.

 

If you hate the job, blow that bridge up!
Just call in and tell them you quit why torture yourself.

 

Whatever you do, don't expect your boss to really care much one way or the other. If he's been in business any time at all he'll be used to people coming and going.
In a week, they won't even remember your name or what you looked like.
You're just the latest guy that's walking off of a job that nobody wanted to do anyway.

 

I’ve given a two week notice to a local gig at a small company that would actually be negatively affected by an unexpected resignation. I’ve given a one week notice. I’ve given a “route me to HQ as soon as possible” notice.

They’ve all ended the exact same way. A ‘Can we do anything to make you stay?’ call by operations followed by coldly being told to turn in my keys, safety vest, fuel cards, and feeling like a second class citizen in an airport security line to everyone I come in contact with upon departing. Long story short, at almost every company, you’re meat in a seat and easily forgotten as soon as you or the company decide to part ways.

Find a new job, decide what’s easiest for you, and give whatever notice aligns with that. For me, it’s usually whatever time is required between receiving a conditional offer letter and orientation at the new gig. Usually 4-5 days. If OTR, a one or two week notice usually turns into them routing you to HQ as soon as possible. Not that great of a situation when your rental car is booked for 3 days later and you’re ubering all your belongings to the nearest Holiday Inn for 3 days.

 

Sounds monotonous.

Just for grins and giggles, I would have told the dispatchers: "GET OUT HERE AND SHOW ME WHAT THE PACE IS or shut your pie hole"!!

YOU DO WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU, NOT ANY COMPANY.

 

In my years of local work, dock work was required also. One day we had to watch a video on "fork lift" safety. Next day, I was moving freight on the dock with the fork lift, terminal manager came out, jumped my "rear" for going too slow. LOL I flat out told him, "I ain't got but two speeds and you sure in hell don't want to see the other one"