abandonment
 

i was just wondering if a company can charge me with abandoment if they came to my home and recovered truck? i got home thursday afternoon told my dispatch i quit, he told me to get a load and take truck to atlanta terminal wich is about 5 hrs from my house. i told him i would take it to drop yard, wich is 20 min away. i wake up the next morning go outside to clean out my truck, and take it to drop yard. and truck was gone with all my belonging inside. they didnt tell me where truck was until monday, i got my stuff out and left keys at tow company, that was 2 weeks ago, truck is still at tow yard. i tried to get them to let me bring truck back to terminal, but they said i cant since i no longer work for company.[/b]

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unfortunately they sure can and will.... sucks but thats what they do.

WOW!! When I quit CR England I parked the truck at my house. They couldn't find the truck on GPS because it was in my driveway. So it showed the truck, but no road anywhere near the truck.

They told me if I drove it to Cincinnati they wouldn't put that I abandoned it. I told them to fax that to me. They did.

Yes, any time you quit and leave the truck and/or trailer anywhere other than where the company instructs you to turn it in at then that is abandonment.

Unbelievable! I guess you should just bring it to a terminal and then tell them you quit...

England wants all their trucks back in Salt Lake. Not Hammond Indiana or any of their other drop yards. SLC only.

The problem is you aren't making money and they know that. I requested to get to SLC 2 weeks before I quit. I was told "eventually".

A friend of mine quit last week. He was in Laredo on Monday and requested a load to SLC. They told him "eventually".

They sure will,
When I quit Stevens back in 99 I had been out for 15 weeks with no home time in sight. They said when I finally get home that I could have 5 days off,....5 whole days!!,
So I covered the qualcom with aluminum foil (I heard they can't track you if its covered with foil), drove their truck (600 miles) and empty trailer to Dallas, put that truck in the safety lane, walked to the nearest hotel, caught a plane the next day and that was the end of that.
I never heard from them again.
BTW my DAC is clean, so I guess the best bet would have been to drive it to where they told you to, and all of this future mess could have been avoided.
Now you will have your hands full trying to explain this away at your next interview, good luck .

Could have just unplugged the thing :idea:

Re: abandonment
 

You quit a carrier and refused to bring their truck back. That is abandonment. I don't understand why you would risk not taking the truck back. It sounds to me as though they were trying to work with you to get their equipment back. It costs a lot of money to recover equipment. And since you quit you are no longer an employee and will not be covered under their insurance policy. I am curious as to why you didn't just work a notice or take the truck back?

Quitting
 

"abandonment" All yo newbs reading this string, you've just learned how not to resign/quit a druver employer. What I don't understand is how the poster did not know his truck was being towed during the evening. BOL