What is abandonment of a truck exactly? How to get the heck out?

No, not a 1099...according to my understanding. But a bait and switcher off Facebook. I would never agree to a 1099, or load percentage. I agreed to sixty-cents per mile, all miles paid. But actually, on the third day when I put this back into writing in an email is when I discovered they did not do email,, and tried to do everything on phone. I went online a day later, to get the phone recording app. I have them on the phone telling me in simple terms that I would have to accept the $50/day, no motel or they would retaliate by withholding pay, charging for retrieving truck, and reporting.
In fact, on day three when I was double checking my pay, and what they already owed me is when she tried to tell me I was getting 22%. I told her I was going to pull the truck over that second if she did not put that idea out of her head. Another question? I have not ever heard of such a low percentage anywhere, ever. Have you? But I have owned my own construction company, and I know the expensed and responsibility she is trying to avoid in the percentage.
My real questions are can anyone force a driver to get on the road when the dash is saying DERATE ACTIVE? I had a Peterbilt tech tell me in a 2022 Peterbilt which was derating on me that each time I stop and start the engine, it would derate even more, until dead. And Peterbilt would never ask me, nay, they would demand I park asap and get towed to a nearest dealer. Happened more than once.

 

Interesting story. Now my nephew just got hired by KLLM the mega...and I was all saying "Texas government has a school! just get the CDL and you are free"...but darned if they didn't have him in a real CDL, and a trainer within three weeks. He is currently out for his fourth week WITH a trainer, paid $800/week and has another four weeks to do when he gets his own truck to go solo.
I may be going to see about working there. It's local here in Dallas. SMH

 

Interesting story. Now my nephew just got hired by KLLM the mega...and I was all saying "Texas government has a school! just get the CDL and you are free"...but darned if they didn't have him in a real CDL, and a trainer within three weeks. He is currently out for his fourth week WITH a trainer, paid $800/week and has another four weeks to do when he gets his own truck to go solo.
I may be going to see about working there. It's local here in Dallas. SMH

 

I hope you are wrong about the "never see the pay" part. There are many avenues, and all of them can be implemented and any one of them may work. I live in the area of Ft. Worth, so easily able to be in contact. I believe if they were in Chicago, I would be screwed. So I get you are not afraid of that DAT or is it DAC report as I was? am? I do appreciate your reply. Feeling kinda dumb.

 

You just gave me an interesting idea! That whole at will thing. And I admit, I am pretty sure that whole DAC is a bunch of bs. There is an entire email chain for when we clarified I was a w2, NOT 1099, plus the idea I was looking to get out of this truck asap, but without hurting them if possible, but that I had serious suspicions of them planning to not pay me, or insurance fraud on load insurance or something else...which is why I demanded pay up front on my final load, which she paid, using zelle and noting "final load". Sounds like I didn't really have any real responsibility, especially after they twisted my arm the final time to get me to deliver the truck and check it in at the dealer.

 

You guys are a forgiving lot, I must say. since I live nearby the home office, does that make any difference to whether or not you might hire a lawyer to go ahead and take it on, since I do have a contract I demanded they sign prior to me bringing the truck to Indiana and the second dealer/shop which spelled out treble damages if they failed to pay me for all load $1580.00 and travel on airplane back home when I checked truck into dealer. So it's up to around $6k plus attorney fees, and maybe some more added for bad faith, intentional lies or stuff like that. I am in Texas. ?

 

It is a Texan and an immigrants daughter from Vietnam. I am not Texan, though my six year old daughter IS. The state I am born in, but left 2010 is California the worst state of them all...and I had a construction company with employees. I have not been spoken to in such a degrading manner as with these folks. They believe drivers are sub-human. Nearly said so in one of the phone recordings. I did not tell them until the end that I was recording them for days.