Leaving/Quitting Company Wisdom
 

Is it best to give a company a two week notice miles away from home that you will be leaving or do you wait until you make it home?

Start cleaning out your truck while at home if you are planning on quitting. That way if the company pulls something sneaky like getting you to a terminal and pulling you out of the truck, you won't have to worry about how you are going to get your things home.

While I've never done this with a trucking co, I have done it in the past and it has helped me out once.
About once a year I would ask for a job reveiw and get it in writting, if you do that and then acouple of years down the road when you leave it makes it alittle bit harder for them to slam you. Of course there are some that just don't care and will screw you no matter what.

thanks for the feedback. i've been with the same company which trained me for three years and i think its about time for me to move on to a new company or a new direction all together.

When I thinking about leaving PGT about 8 months or so ago Iasked my dispatcher how I should go about it when the time came. He said to give him a 2 week notice if I could but not to tell the bosses up in PA any notice because every other driver he had that did was sent to the nearest terminal and given a bus ticket home.

When the time did come I guess my 2 years of not being a royal pain in the ass paid off and I was able to take a load fromKY back to TX and then deadhead to Laredo and turn in the truck.

Some guys know how to leave on good terms and some dont.

Yeah. I say I was lucky, but I kinda had a feeling that they would let me get back home to unload the truck. And since they called me a few weeks back to see if I wanted to come back I figure I must have done something right.

True but if a driver is really serious about leaving a company it would be easier for him if he started to clean out his truck. That way he doesn't have that much to pack up when he turns the truck in.

Good point(s).... but, I believe the O.P. is miles away from home and wants to know whether to give them a heads up.

It's unbelievable how much crap you can accumulate in your truck!