Quitting under a load?

Call dispatch, tell em "family emergency, repower the load. Once the qc dings, your clear to quit!

 

Only if you are a super runner they may take you back not supper trucker he I leave dart and went back no notice but I was not under a load

 

Not very responsible

 

If the load is sitting in the yard waiting to be delivered late, there is a lack of drivers available to deliver. As soon as the breakdown happened dispatch should have taken you off.
The fact they did not tells me it would be a very bad thing to abandon that load. They can very legitimately claim abandonment. And that, for companies that use Hirerite, is an automatic no.
Personally I would talk to dispatch, get them to reassign the load (hey, truck is in the shop) and if they do then quit. Otherwise I would empty the truck mostly out, deliver the load and then quit.

 

Go in there with your big boy panties on and tell em you quit. Oh no, they might put a mark on your DAC. Don't even worry about that ####! Would they give you two weeks notice if they were going to fire you?

A word of advice for the future. Whenever someone mentions DAC don't give them anymore of your time. Those DAC scardy cats have been brainwashed into thinking DAC is the end all be all when it comes to trucking.

 

I'd walk in there and tell them I'm quitting but I'm willing to finish the load and bring the truck directly back. High chances they won't want you in their truck anymore if they know that you'll need to drive directly back and that you're going to quit. If they don't, oh well, deliver the load. Your new job has survived prior to you applying, pretty sure they should make it another few days.

Certainly not worth the risk of them hitting you with abandonment.

Oh. If they say to just go ahead and quit and not deliver that load, I'd ask for that in writing.

Two weeks notice? What is this, a white collar job? If I was running a company and had a driver in my expensive piece of equipment that I knew was quitting and likely could careless about any of my policies or about the equipment, I'd want them out of that thing asap.

Or... go the lying about it route. Emergency and have to take weeks off right now. Sorry. Then call and say sorry you won't be able to come back right now, but might at some point in the distant future. Then don't come back. Problem solved.

 

WWJD (What Would Johnny Do)

 

Bad information on DAC can be devastating. The biggest problem is that up to 10 year driving history you must provide. Most companies will check the reasons for no longer working for said company and will in most cases demand a good reason for any do not rehire on replies. DAC makes getting this information easier but is not the only source. However I will say this in regard to getting rehired after truck/load abandonment. To this day I know of only a very few that got back and these are not in all that good jobs. Now I will go back to my head pounding.

 

This new job...if the start date was postponed a week, would you finish the run? Or do you just want to quit?

I've often wondered how people get themselves into bad predicaments on the job, where their dispatcher or boss treats them like 3rd rate employees. How do they know who they can beat down?

A Man's word is his bond. If you're under load, you finish the load. Period.

"But Six, the new company gave me the start date of Monday."

I would have postponed it a week to insure there would be no scheduling conflicts. What are they going to do...hire someone else? Doubt it. It's like the used car salesman telling you about how someone else is looking at the car you like. Not even in the door yet, and wilting from the pressure? Speak up next time. They would have postponed the start date.