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Malaki86 · #1 08-20-2011, 02:42 PM

Why is it that just because you're a weekend dispatch/load planner, you automatically lose 50% of your IQ?

I'm due home on Monday the 22nd. No big deal, or so I thought. On Friday (maybe it was Thursday - who knows), I was given a couple of preplans to run after I delivered my load in Louisville, KY. The first one was a short run - take a load from our yard in Louisville to the Walton, KY area. After that, run to Versailles, KY for a load going to Laredo that delivers on Monday the 22nd. Wait, thought I was supposed to be home that day... So, I call in and they arrange it so I drop the load at our yard in West Memphis today (well, it was scheduled to be here last night, but couldn't legally do it, so it got here @ 5am).

Before leaving out of Paducah, KY this morning @ 1am for the final leg to West Memphis, I called into my dispatch and asked what it looked like for a load out of W Memphis to head me for home. He said that there was plenty of loads sitting there and they'd start working on a preplan. Well, when I pulled in at 5am, guess what? Still no preplan. While I was turning in my paperwork, I saw paperwork for another load sitting here in the yard that goes to Walton, KY. Perfect, right? Guess not. I called in and mentioned the load to dispatch. They punched it up and said they couldn't put me on that load because it doesn't deliver until Thursday. I explain that I would have to go through Louisville anyway and could drop it there. Nope.

So, now it's been 5 1/2hrs of watching my 14hr clock drop and there's still nothing, even though I've seen a crapload of our trucks come/go with trailers.

Arghhhh - I can handle a bunch of BS out here on the road, but don't mess with my damn hometime...

Malaki86 · #2 08-20-2011, 06:22 PM

It gets better. After I sat there for roughly 6hrs I got a load assignment. Guess which one? Yup - taking the load that I called them about.

Asshats...

geeshock · #3 08-20-2011, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Malaki86

It gets better. After I sat there for roughly 6hrs I got a load assignment. Guess which one? Yup - taking the load that I called them about.

Asshats...

heh, the reason they couldn't give you the load is becuse it wasn't thier idea. Shame on you, doing the planers job, or makeing thier job easier. Your just a dumb driver :P

geeshock · #4 08-20-2011, 07:17 PM

heh, well, don't feel bad, I got a load in montreal. It loaded at 6pm friday and they want me to deliver it in indy. No Big deal, run through montreal, they have more costuction going on there than chicago. I get to the kitchner yard today and find out the broker closed at 5 pm on friday and there is no backup broker on weekends. Can you say WTF!!!

Malaki86 · #5 08-20-2011, 09:14 PM

ouch - they let you drop it at kitch for a different load?

MichiganDriver · #6 08-21-2011, 12:05 AM

I don't know how you guys deal with all that. I work at a small company (about 10 employees) and when my boss screws the pooch, he gets on a humble and lets me know he didn't mean it. (and by the same token when I screw up I let him know I didn't mean to) We get along pretty well most of the time and even when we don't it's man to man, not employee to demi-god. I like small companies.

Malaki86 · #7 08-21-2011, 12:12 AM

I worked for a small company prior to coming to Celadon. Even though everyone knew everyone, the 'office' didn't have any problems bending you over (and using sand as a lube).

Fredog · #8 08-21-2011, 12:13 AM

my dispatcher owns the company and I get percentage, so if I aint moving, he aint making money, guess how much sitting I do..

geeshock · #9 08-21-2011, 01:53 AM

finaly, takeing forever, might have to drop in indy for another driver but I got one

mgfg · #10 08-21-2011, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Malaki86

I worked for a small company prior to coming to Celadon. Even though everyone knew everyone, the 'office' didn't have any problems bending you over (and using sand as a lube).

Ask them to use a little crushed glass in the mix....