It boils down to an owner who isn’t smart enough to know that when the driver is pissed you promise him anything he wants UNTIL you regain control of the truck.
It doesn’t matter what the driver is pissed about, the Queen of England, that Obama didn’t keep a promise, that the next load didn’t come through as promised, that his brother is banging his wife when he leaves town, that his kids didn’t get good report cards, you agree with him that he has a legitimate complaint!
After all he has the key to $100,000 of your money and he can burn it if he wants to. He can drive it into the river and you can’t do a thing to stop him. Nothing!
So, as owner, you had better be smart enough to know that you must keep him happy. At least until he brings the truck back to the yard and you cand get a hold of the keys.
The owner called the cops and said the driver threatened to drive the truck to Times Square... Want to take a bet that it’s a raghead driver. (Mistake #1)
LOL! Sounds like a logical answer to the article. I remember a story in the late seventies about a truck driver caught in this same situation, he actually drove his rig to Times Square and left it. Cost the owner big bucks to get his truck back.