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2 week notice in trucking

Posted by Silent-Room-4987@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 15 comments

who does it? how many companies (local/regional/otr) honor them? feels like its a bad idea in most cases

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Impressive-Menu8966@reddit

I come from a "regular" job industry of 40 hour work weeks and 2 weeks of PTO on day one. Going into trucking the rules are totally different. Workweek? 70 hours. PTO? Someday. Sicktime? Let us know when you are better and we will hire you back. Granted I'm still bottom rung since I'm new but sheesh.
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ergofobe@reddit

I ran for a small 10 truck carrier off and on for a few years.. I usually knew going in roughly how long I was planning on sticking around.. I'd let him know up front and then give him reminders as I got closer to being ready to leave.. He never gave me any issues about it and I was always welcome to come back.
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Emotional-Salad-5092@reddit

Do they give you 2 week notice before they fire someone?
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Ok_Application_2292@reddit

After the driver rolled my truck over in the town he lived in. No, I did not. He wasn’t going to replace the $150k he destroyed. Somethings are understood in my book. But I have had quite a few turn in notice work 1-2 weeks then even come back when they realized all grass is green just not the same
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keytiri@reddit

Request hometime, give 2 weeks as soon as you hit yard; bonus points if you have enough time off to off to cover it. My dispatcher considers it a red flag when drivers request more than 2 weeks.
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Lord_B33zus@reddit

I let them know the at the beginning of the week that’s it’s my last week. Never been cut short, but I’m ready if they decide to.
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xoutlawtrucker@reddit

I think its mandatory to set the truck on fire and notify them of your departure like a Viking funeral. Make sure you have your new job lined up first, in trucking they get very vindictive with your records to make it difficult to get employment elsewhere
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Silent-Room-4987@reddit (OP)

Indeed. Got to see my dac report and my last co. Under rehire they put no, where as everyone else said yes or review. Mind you i had to leave under medical conditions too. Am better now.
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DoctorZebra@reddit

Been doing this for just under 20 years and have yet to encounter an employer that didn't honor my two weeks notice. There was one guy at a previous employer who, according to the rumor mill, was let go as soon as he gave notice but he personally debunked that when I asked him. Turns out that he had a bunch of PTO saved up and they gave him the choice between using his PTO and not coming back to work and working his last two weeks and taking the payout and he chose to burn the PTO and take a couple of weeks off before starting his next job. Beyond that, it's always been "we hate to see you go and you're welcome to come back if things don't work out."
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deezkeys098@reddit

In my experience it’s 70% probability you will get told to quit immediately and 30% chance they will let you work until the 2 weeks is up It’s an insurance thing apparently is what I was told by the last aholes that made me quit immediately after I turned in my 2 weeks
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asleepatthewheel72@reddit

The last otr job I had as soon as you told them you were leaving you were not allowed to drive. They had a bad experience in the past with a driver..not sure exactly what went down? They would literally send another driver to pick up the truck and load and buy you a bus ticket back. Not even allow you to drive to the terminal. Crazy
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Sad_Conversation9857@reddit

It always better to give your boss the heads up. you can always ask what there procedure is for that. you never know who knows who so it can screw you in the long run. Always leave, if possible, being able to come back if need be.
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MrFahrenheit99@reddit

I gave my two week and got a call from the big boss in appreciation. Worked out just fine for me
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BigDikus69@reddit

Don't give them two weeks I did that with two companies, the first just gave me the worst of the worst in loads and miles my pay was crap. The second just kept telling me that they had no loads for me at all and gave me the day off they did that for the whole week caught on rather quickly that they just didn't want me to come in.
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Snoringhounddog@reddit

I gave week notice at my last job. I told them I accepted a local position somewhere else, but would like to be welcome back if things don't work out. I actually spoke with my dispatcher about a month earlier to let him know what was coming.
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