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Originally Posted by coastie
Non force dispatch means your not force to take the load. But as LostProphet stated it can come back and bite you in the rear....
Now I did have it go into my favor once. Asked to take a load that I could not have done legally nor safely. I turned it down. I ended up with a better load, and from then on all my loads were better. With that company they loved to send me to NJ twice a week. Afterwards, I started to go west more. Meant longer runs and more money and able to do it with out forging my logs...
This opens the door to another facet of "forced dispatch". The dark side of "forced dispatch"......where a dispatcher leans on you to take a load and run with it...even though you have no hours to run it.
If this happens...do not, I repeat, do not take the run. Refuse the run, and if the dispatcher tries to lean on you....tell them you have a bad connection and hang up. Immediately call your Safety Department and tell them that dispatch is leaning on you to run illegal. If doing this causes a problem....immediately locate another driving job and move to another company.
Failure to stand your ground sets you up to become a whore for dispatch and they will take advantage of you ad nauseum, and then when you are caught by safety, the DOT, or have an accident....your life will become a living hell. Safety will fire you, the DOT will fine the crap out of you and safety will fire you, and in the event of an accident...all the foregoing will happen and a lawyer is going to ream you alive in court. If there are injuries or a fatality....bankruptcy won't help, and if there is a fatality, it won't matter anyway...because "Prisoners" can't pay bills.