This is my second problem with a planner in the past three weeks. The first problem was when I just left Cleveland to Toledo, stopped to fuel and clean out my trailer as it was needed to go into a soup company. Find the trailer is not food grade, so i ask for another trailer. I'm told the nearest one was back in Cleveland, 2 hrs+ away. I responded, "that is the closest one?". To that i'm told 'yes'. I advise i had just fueled in Toledo and that our New Boston terminal was 45 min away. make that long story shorter, I decide to head to New Boston, while en route, i'm told not to go there. Bummer....by the time i get that message, i'm already there.
Fast forward to today. I get to Columbus, OH. Drop a load off, and before i get it dropped I get a preplan for a load picking up at the Columbus terminal headed for Monee, IL for a 6a live unload on the 28th. Heading back out of columbus, i get another preplan. This one picks up at our Gary, IN. terminal, headed for west chicago. (about 55mi to travel). I decline it, because i wont be ontime to P/U (guessing it will take me an hour or more to get unloaded) not to mention by the time i DO get to P/U, that will leave me 90+ minutes to travel 55 mi in rush hour traffic to get to a live unload by 10:30a ??
what part of that do they not understand??? I cannot safely travel 55 mi in downtown chicago in 90+ minutes smack in the middle of rush-hour. Not to mention after i declined the load, the planner accepted it for me, and put it back on my truck. I responded with a message saying "I DID NOT ACCEPT THIS LOAD......" and gave them the reasons why i did.
Why are there planners who think they're god? or think just becuase they have the magic wand for loads, they think they're over the driver?? this smells like a power trip once again. Told them once i got stopped for the night that i cannot safely deliver this in the time allowed. If they didn't seem to understand, that maybe i'd be better served to call Phoenix safety department.