Just trucking along

Another week of running in and now it's time to enjoy some home time. I gave them another good week and glad to be out of the truck for a couple of days. We had someone quit last weekend and left the truck and loaded trailer sitting at a truckstop in South Bend,In. I refuse to call him a driver. Anyone that quits like that can be called alot of names but a truck driver isn't one of them. What I don't get about this one is why did he leave the truck there? He had picked up in New Jersey and the load was going up to the twin cities area in Minnesota. He lives around Green Bay. If I were planning on quitting, I would bring the truck and trailer to our terminal in Green Bay and jump in my car to go home. He left the truck out there, didn't let anyone know he was quitting and had to find a way home from out there. I ended up riding with my wife in her truck to retrieve it. Now this clown has to pay a buck a mile for the out of route miles my wife put on to drop me off plus a buck a mile for the mileage out there and back for me. So he is looking at over $700 for his stupidity. Plus he won't get another driving job anywhere because it will be on his DAC that he abandoned a truck and loaded trailer. If he would have came to Green Bay and let someone know he quit once he was there, his DAC would probably stay clean and wouldn't have been charged for a truck rerieval.
Anybody new to this business take note: DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT for any reason leave a truck out on the road someplace. It will cost you alot of money for the company to retrieve it and I can guarantee you will never drive over the road for another company again. Alot of local companies will shy away from you as well. So if you spent alot of time and money getting your cdl, don't mess up by abandoning a truck. As bad as you may hate where your working, stick with it until you can get back to one of the company terminals and then go in and tell them you quit. At least you will be able to get another driving job. Trucking companies view that DAC report like it came from God. No matter what you say it won't change the facts that they read on the DAC report.

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