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Originally Posted by driver67373
I guess I thought it was an industry standard that a trucking company provides you a way home (usually a bus ticket) if you leave them. Well after having given Crete a 2 week notice, and kindly taking their equipment to their terminal, I get there yesterday in Wilmer to turn my truck in. Thinking I'd be given a way home. The dispatcher calls my terminal manager at home, since it's Saturday, and he informs me that since I am voluntarily separating from the company, that I must make my own transportation arrangments home! That felt like a slap in the face after doing the right thing my turning my truck in and giving a notice. So after a $35 cab ride to Greyhound in downtown Dallas and a $74 bus ticket to Pine Bluff, AR, I'm home. So tell me, is what just happened to me normal when you leave a trucking company or did they just do me plain wrong?
I just took my regular hometime on Friday, cleaned out the truck, and left it at a drop-yard 20 minutes from my house. I already had my new LTL job lined up and was slated to start on Monday. Sure enough, Monday morning rolls around and my travel agent calls up and says "Where are you? I've got you pre-planned on a P&G load to Texas." I said "Oh, I forgot to tell you. I quit." He's like "WHAT! You can't do that!". I said "I just did!" CLICK!!!!
They left all kinds of threatening messages on my voice-mail. Received several bills for truck recovery charges. I'm sure there's something on my DAC. Big deal. I just threw everything in the trash and after awhile, never heard about it. Screw it, I'm not gonna drive 5 hours for free to turn in their truck at a terminal and then pay out of my own pocket for a bus-ride home. Especially on a Greyhound - those things are nightmares. Maybe if they hadn't tried to screw me over so many times I would've thought differently. Then again, maybe not. :lol: