[Sevlow]

Swift has no forced dispatch?

[looker]

I have been with my new company for over six month I have never been happier. I would never work for a big company again. About usxpress how humiliating I am not the only person that is talking bad about the company. I have talk to woman that was in the same vote as I. I am so lucky I didn't end up homeless. Nothing but local deliveries unload load every day usxpress.
I always ask the drivers why is that we don't see many of the swift usxpress jb hunt ect. on long rural roads I see my company trucks daily. My company has 78 trucks. Usxpress 5000 whats wrong with this picture. Truck driver Will come back there all in the rail yards. Compare my pay check with usxpress pay check 10 folds bigger.

[Mars]

Originally Posted by looker

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[Piece Of Work]

So where's the laundry list on US Express?? What makes it so bad???

[Mars]

what is forced dispatch?

[4roses]

Mars ... forced dispatch is - they Tell you where your next load will be ..... you don't have any choices .... Some company's will give you 2 choices if they have it and this way you fill you have opinions as to where you'll be heading out to for your next load. ....but if you get with a good company .... like CFI and a few others ... they will be fair with all drivers.

[Mars]

Originally Posted by for4roses

Mars ... forced dispatch is - they Tell you where your next load will be ..... you don't have any choices .... Some company's will give you 2 choices if they have it and this way you fill you have opinions as to where you'll be heading out to for your next load. ....but if you get with a good company .... like CFI and a few others ... they will be fair with all drivers.

Thanks for the info that's what I thought, just needed confirmation. So the issue with this is what? having to go way out of the way to pick up a load or something?

[wildkat]

Originally Posted by Mars

Thanks for the info that's what I thought, just needed confirmation. So the issue with this is what? having to go way out of the way to pick up a load or something?

Mars, we don't really have "forced dispatch" up here, usually we are accustomed to going where we need to, but with our trucking companies being much smaller than the ones down south our dispatch gets to know us, & they tend to send us where we like to go. And if we do have to go where we don't particularly "want" to go they tend to return the favour next time. Forced dispatch seems to be a really big issue down there, not sure why, doesn't make any sense to a Canadian driver as it's a pretty much unknown term up here, as our terrain & driving conditions varies so drastically, dispatch knows better than for instance, to send a driver with no mountain experience to the mountains. Does that make sense?

[Mars]

Originally Posted by wildkat

Mars, we don't really have "forced dispatch" up here, usually we are accustomed to going where we need to, but with our trucking companies being much smaller than the ones down south our dispatch gets to know us, & they tend to send us where we like to go. And if we do have to go where we don't particularly "want" to go they tend to return the favour next time. Forced dispatch seems to be a really big issue down there, not sure why, doesn't make any sense to a Canadian driver as it's a pretty much unknown term up here, as our terrain & driving conditions varies so drastically, dispatch knows better than for instance, to send a driver with no mountain experience to the mountains. Does that make sense?

Thanks Wildkat

[jnk2001]

Originally Posted by wildkat

Mars, we don't really have "forced dispatch" up here, usually we are accustomed to going where we need to, but with our trucking companies being much smaller than the ones down south our dispatch gets to know us, & they tend to send us where we like to go. And if we do have to go where we don't particularly "want" to go they tend to return the favour next time. Forced dispatch seems to be a really big issue down there, not sure why, doesn't make any sense to a Canadian driver as it's a pretty much unknown term up here, as our terrain & driving conditions varies so drastically, dispatch knows better than for instance, to send a driver with no mountain experience to the mountains. Does that make sense?

forced dispatch is because they may get a call to go somewhere and you are the one closest to the pick up point or can get the load to where it needs to go on time. you are at the mercy of the dispatch if you are a company driver. after all, it IS their truck.