Fired without notice | Sunday Rant | Trucking Answers

[@Alien300Blackout]

Companies love Right to Work law when it works to their advantage

[@Trashman702]

This isn’t a right to work situation. It’s an at will situation. Learn the difference

[@Alien300Blackout]

@@Trashman702 Right to work also means companies can say goodbye whenever they feel like it for any reason they do it all the time

[@censoredeveryday3320]

Completely agree with your message here. What grinds my gears is when HR or management routinely says "we're a family at ABC trucking Co." and "we look out for each other". Employers straight up lie and gaslight employees to give them a false sense of security. I even told the HR staff at one company to stop the family slogan routine because it was insulting and dishonest.

[@TheH454]

^This^ The look on peoples face when I tell them "Never work for a company that says they treat you like family, Because they will!" The worst places I worked for said we were a big family.

[@mark7362]

One company I worked for blamed me for something that broke which I had no control over, something that wasn't my fault, then tried to make me pay $2,000 of my own money for it. Total kangaroo court. I could have gotten a lawyer & sued them but I knew I likely wouldn't have come out on top. when I quit they had the nerve to ask me why I'm leaving and reiterated "we're a family here" and tried to guilt trip me saying stuff like "we're trying to keep turnover down" (3 out of 5 drivers they hired lasted only 6 months or less before they left including me)

[@Mr.Pink1992]

Agreed. HR is never your friend. They always look out for the company.

[@TheH454]

@@Mr.Pink1992 Oh, yeah. When they want you to sign paperwork - its to cover them, not you. NEVER sign any paperwork if you get fired. It's almost always to keep you from getting unemployment.

[@garybuth801]

TYPICAL MEGA CARRIER OPERATION

[@chrisolszewski8690]

I agree 100%. Always felt that way after my layoff with zero notice on a Friday. Let everyone go except 3 people to clean up

[@MidlifeTrucker-ThomBell]

Purdue drivers did get 8 weeks severance in lieu of notice.

[@williejefferson9823]

At will employers don't have to give a notice other than notifying you that you're fired. And vice versa. You don't have to give a notice of resignation other than to say, "I quit!" BYE!

[@jackrabbit4383]

1999 i was in a auto dealership working ..3days before Christmas we were called into the office and told they are closing the bodyshop after Christmas. We would appreciate if you could hurry up and finish all the wrecked cars before we close 😂😢😮😅 i then drove and 18wheeler coast to coast border to border for 24years 😅never looked back. I just retired 6 months ago never looked back 😅😊I still have all my tools I now piddle in my garage at my own pace repairing cars and trucks 🚚 my wife of 46 years still shows up and winks at me and smacks me on the behind 😅😊

[@CashisKingtrucking]

YOU'RE FIRED!!! Actually, No wait we need you for 1 more shift. 😂😂😂 I probably take the shift.

[@steamboatwillie935]

Total B.S. my friend. But we are expected, to give two weeks notice. I say to that, bite me!!!

[@kelvintorrence5994]

right on they can bite me too anymore

[@krogersucks45]

while making record profits , Kroger just closed a warehouse in Michigan costing hundreds of jobs again . Not the 1st time drivers have lost jobs working for this company

[@williampeters6004]

I saw a Kroger truck and trailer with the sign of back of trl sounding like they were union. Union or not not they will still sock it to you

[@412hwc]

ohh your fancy there with that full moon roof

[@treyfeeley2519]

Companies will drop an employee in a heartbeat! If they can do it cheaper, employees be damned. What they don't understand is you get what you pay for. When you go cheap , you get cheap!!!!!

[@unknownopinionoid2672]

If i ever hit the lottery and decide to make a trucking company it will be in the Caribbean and mark will be the ceo 😂

[@charlesdada6434]

"We treat you like family" ....

[@charlescontreras4135]

That's one thing that I learned, only one person is gonna look out for you, and that's the person you see in the mirror. Nobody else is gonna take of you, you gotta do for yourself. Where I'm at, employment is at will, they can let me go at anytime, I sure can leave them at anytime, end of story.

[@stantheman1114]

Big companies sometimes seek to can drivers in order to accommodate the constant pipeline of trainees

[@RobertEllis-d2i]

Same with any job or place, not just trucking...

[@brandoncherry1651]

It happened to me it shocked me after 7 years was driver of the year prior the even had the police escort me out I don't know why perfect driving record no tickets..

[@Lazarus-nw1ve]

The one offering the job owns the career. Your job will go quicker than it was given, by that same career. Cents Per Mile (CPM) will always be told "your miles never matter." The career that is not on CPM always says that first because it was your hire not his. The career is compensated for it, the job is not compensated for it. So when you run a "fire-sale" on cpm and sign on's you also upset the apple-cart when the job is wiped and that driver is smoked out and ran over the coals by drivers hating other drivers to protect their own secured retirement newly assigned to them at the desk as a...Career.

[@paulporras9356]

I told the last trucking co I was sick to get extra pay no loyety from me what comes around goes around then hired to new co.

[@paulporras9356]

Still waiting on yellow trucking law case no loyety in trucking.

[@rosado1234]

That's why I don't believe in a two weeks notice. Companies love the term at will, but they always want a two weeks notice.

[@steamboatwillie935]

& that two weeks, if they let you work that long. Will be the worst, two weeks they can give you. With every sh!t job they can find. Why work it? Their not going to say anything good about you. To another potential employer.

[@rosado1234]

@@steamboatwillie935 that's right. 👍

[@sw23971]

If you as a driver needs to quit you need to be smart about it. Get your plan relayed in writing as an email to HR and dispatch. Don't count on a verbal from your dispatcher, they are not your friends. You need to have a good reason to drop the truck off at the terminal without them knowing you're leaving so the company doesn't dick around and keep you out for who knows how long.

[@jamesnevitt3400]

A typed notarized letter 😂

[@mark7362]

Do any of you guys know of a good company to drive for that goes out West primarily, and stays within the western 11-13ish states? (And doesn't just send you to California most trips?) I know there's Legend but I've always heard bad things about them.

[@stevenconnolly7907]

Many small to medium sized companies are owned by hedge funds and lines of credit by a bank. More often than not the bank shuts off the credit line and the small to medium sized company is forced to immediately shut down and liquidate. It isnt the decision of the company it was the action of the 🏦 bank.

[@pbrock11]

spoiler,, man this guy loves to talk..

[@Truckersweather]

Hey marklong time (Trucking Tips) im coming back with a background in news production. Id like to try to connect with you again. I hope you been doing well and I missed this community.

[@Joshualibbyy]

Honestly i absolutely HATE at will employment. Montana has it right. They are the only state that has Will employment which means companies cant just look at u and say " u gone u out." They need a good written explanation of why u have to be let go. I also believe there is a period before u get fired in montana.

[@morthomer5804]

Pretty shotty if they don't get picked up by the contractor

[@Hattricks68]

But Mark you’re not a truck number here 😂, yeah because when you call, the Caller ID tells them who you are And they snap a picture of you in Orientation. AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT is why many people choose not to work.

[@johnmerlo5005]

Trucking is doggy dog it's all the same don't do anything more then you have to

[@Hattricks68]

Dog Eat Dog is correct especially with the SHIPPERS AND RECEIVERS running the Show.

[@brianhoppenrath8379]

Must have been a bad driver. That’s right KZbinrs are bad drivers I forgot.

[@watomb]

If you’re a single guy best thing you can do is start your own company. Working to support someone else dream is a waste of time. But just not in trucking (sorry). Truckers don’t understand cost or how to value there time. Sometimes it’s better to sit and do nothing

[@Hattricks68]

How should truckers value their time? Or is it truckers don’t know how to value Shippers and Receivers and Dispatchers time?

[@Knightrem]

First