Quitting one company for another.

This might be the best way to go about it, although it does require you to have 500-1000 bucks to spend.

Get everything set up with the new company BEFORE telling Western Express anything, or even hinting to them about it. Apply to the new company and talk to a recruiter, let them know you are currently employed and will need to take your truck to a terminal and quit before starting orientation. This probably wont be something new to them, not every driver is new and I'm sure every company gets drivers that come directly from another company. They will pull all your info and records at that time and work with you to set your orientation to a good time.

Locate the western Express terminal closest to the new company and try to get a load to the city or somewhere nearby, could even do something like putting in hometime for that area if they will let you. Or if nearby, try to get out of any future loads by claiming you need to stop by the terminal for service or to update tax/whatever info. Basically any excuse you can to either get to the terminal or near the terminal. Even with all this stuff it could take a week or more for an ideal situation. Once you get a load withen a hundred miles or so of the terminal, call the recruitment place for your new company again and set up an orientation start date allowing for time to get to the terminal, unload the truck, and get to the new place. Could easily be anywhere from a few days to a week, maybe longer. Also look for a car rental agency that has facilities near both the Western Express terminal and the terminal for the new company so you can rent a car for a one way trip. It can be hard to find a large enough vehicle to take everything on short notice so best to do this as soon as you *know* you will be able to pick up the car as you usually have to set a specific pick up time.

Once you get to that area and deliver your load, send your empty call then immediately send a message telling western express that you are bringing the truck to the terminal at city/state and quitting. Ignore any messages they send trying to get you to continue working, including load dispatch info, just ignore it. Just send the message and start driving to the terminal. When you get there, call a taxi to take you to the car rental place to pick up the car you rented. Drive the car back to the terminal and empty your truck, might have to move the truck to the car instead of the car to the truck. After emptying your truck take your keys inside and officially quit. Talk to a dispatcher or whoever is in charge, find out everything that needs to be done to make sure there are no loose ends. When finished drive your rental car to the new place.

If everything went correctly,
You have a new job lined up before you left Western Express.
Your truck is already unloaded and in a car ready to drive to the new job before quitting.
You were NOT under a load.
The old truck is AT a terminal so they can't claim abandonment.
If Western Express does put false info on your DAC, it wont matter because the new place already looked at it.

All you gotta do now is drive to the new place, check in at whatever hotel they put you in, unload the car, return the car, and get a taxi/uber back to the hotel. You are ready to start orientation. Make sure that while in orientation they know you came directly from another company so (probably) have a lot of stuff so they wont cancel your reservation automatically at the end of orientation. Might even help to pay out of pocket to get your own room to ensure this doesn't happen and to ensure nobody will go through your stuff if they put multiple people in a single room. When done orientation and in your new truck, bobtail back to the hotel and load everything into the truck and check out of the hotel.

It will cost a few hundred for the car rental, maybe more. But the company might reimburse you for the amount they would have paid for a bus ticket to get you to the hotel. Hotel will be another few hundred, but like the car, the company might reimburse you for whatever they would have paid for the room. Then you are just paying the additional amount for your own room.

 

If it's your first driving job, don't try pushing yourself too hard. Don't want to get burned out and end up feeling like you are being overworked. Really sucks and looks bad to ask for more work only to find it feels like too much and you can't handle it.

Staying out longer and longer is easily doable, especially if you have little reason to be home, but it does take time to get used to it and build up to it.

 

You can go with Bottomly Enterprises running teams to California and be home 2 days a week.
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