Abandoned in Davenport, IA

[jnk2001]

I see being sick as at fault service failure

Oh plz sheep dancer, do expand on this. :shock:

This will get ppl flocking to JB Hunt....

Fine then when I got Epilepsy that one wold have been the biggest service failure in the world delayed a load for a week while the company I was with got another driver out to me to P/U both truck and trailer. I also had my gallbladder removed under a load not a service faliure eitehr. Florilli anything and everything is a service failure regardless of what it is. They will nail a driver for a service failure if a state closes a road due to weather and you could not get the load there. They flat out do not care what causes the failure weather traffic or accident. When I was there driving for them we had a driver have a heart attack on the road while running team with his wife he DIED his wife was charged with a service failure for stopping the truck to be with her husband while he died instead of deliviering the road.

[greg3564]

I don't see how the company abandoned him. He was brought back to the same terminal he started the company with. Next time pick a company closer to home.

[RedRockinMonkeyBoy]

I don't see how the company abandoned him. He was brought back to the same terminal he started the company with. Next time pick a company closer to home.

Actually, Freightliner of Davenport is only where they get the trucks serviced and cleaned at. Their main terminal is in West Liberty, IA.

Before trucking, I was a DJ and tne GM of the station I worked at last used to dispatch at Florilli and he left because he got tired of seeing drivers get the shaft. So he says. Personally, I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. IronEagle, did DeWayne Hopkins work at Florilli when you did?

[greg3564]

I don't see how the company abandoned him. He was brought back to the same terminal he started the company with. Next time pick a company closer to home.

Actually, Freightliner of Davenport is only where they get the trucks serviced and cleaned at. Their main terminal is in West Liberty, IA.

Before trucking, I was a DJ and tne GM of the station I worked at last used to dispatch at Florilli and he left because he got tired of seeing drivers get the shaft. So he says. Personally, I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. IronEagle, did DeWayne Hopkins work at Florilli when you did?

A difference of 35 miles. Point is, if you are fired, why should the company pay to send you home?

[Sheepdancer]

I see being sick as at fault service failure

Oh plz sheep dancer, do expand on this. :shock:

This will get ppl flocking to JB Hunt....

Does it really need to be explained? I also said, "I SEE" meaning in my opinion. Im a recruiter, I have nothing to do with what is a service failure or not. In my opinion people are responsible for their own health. There are many many people who never miss a day of work being sick. And in any job, if you are sick too much and miss work, you are going to lose your job.

[Cluggy619]

I don't see how the company abandoned him. He was brought back to the same terminal he started the company with. Next time pick a company closer to home.

Actually, Freightliner of Davenport is only where they get the trucks serviced and cleaned at. Their main terminal is in West Liberty, IA.

Before trucking, I was a DJ and tne GM of the station I worked at last used to dispatch at Florilli and he left because he got tired of seeing drivers get the shaft. So he says. Personally, I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. IronEagle, did DeWayne Hopkins work at Florilli when you did?

A difference of 35 miles. Point is, if you are fired, why should the company pay to send you home?

Look folks....he was new to the business, as you all can tell. And I always wonder where the rest of the story is.

However, and most of you can agree, if you even think that your losing your job, i would have gone home first, rather than being left stranded out in the middle of nowhere. Let them come pick up the truck.

Of course, the way I felt about JB Hunt, they're lucky I stopped at the Dallas terminal to give them their truck back...

Some of those Mexican companies could have used the parts..... :twisted:

[kips41]

He did contact dispatch every time, They kept making excuses saying we can't do anything it's too late, when in fact they had 4-5 hrs before delivery time to DO something about it. When your 14 hr clock runs that's it, and Yes he knows how to plan but like I said before $&!+ happens. This is the first time he's been late do hrs running out, traffic, getting sick and another driver being late on a sawp. I mean come on you guys are acting like he just let it him happen, yes he wanted to be late all them times. Whatever I thought this board would be helpful on the abandonment part but instead you guys are all ripping apart my post disscusing that he was late, that's all you care about it seems is that he was late.

I've been explaining what happened but no one cares, goodbye done finished will never make another post on here again. And IT even states in their logbook that they are not suppose to abandon you. They did and plus took all his money on his last check. Abandonment is against the law! How can you account for a tractor trailer going off the road? Or a driver wanting to do a u-turn on I-80? There's only so much you can account for before you start your day!

Welcome to trucking !!! Some companies play fast and loose with the HOS rules and it looks like this is one of those companies. Should have figured that out on the second late load. They want you to perform and don't care how you do it. Figure it out. NO WHINING


Welcome to trucking PART II: Companies are more than happy to get you to them when you hire on, but when the s**t hits the fan and you are on your way out the door, better have some money to get your butt home or better yet call a new company and have them bus you to the next victim. !!!!!

I don't see how the company abandoned him. He was brought back to the same terminal he started the company with. Next time pick a company closer to home.

Actually, Freightliner of Davenport is only where they get the trucks serviced and cleaned at. Their main terminal is in West Liberty, IA.

Before trucking, I was a DJ and tne GM of the station I worked at last used to dispatch at Florilli and he left because he got tired of seeing drivers get the shaft. So he says. Personally, I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. IronEagle, did DeWayne Hopkins work at Florilli when you did?

Yes Hoppi was there when I was a driver in fact Hoppi was the one that hired me into the company at the Walcott Jamboree of 97. Actually Hoppi was not a dispatcher there his job was personal manger. When he left that is when things really went down hill fast.