It is unfortunate that a Dispatcher can make or break a Truck Driver. What they fail to realize, is that "We Truck Drivers are the ones that Obtained a COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE!!, Dispatchers simply route our loads. And what they also Do Not realize, it is our driving time, our sleepless nights, our layover, our detention time, is what makes the Companies we haul for their MONEY, AND ALL THE OFFICE PERSONNEL AS WELL AS DISPATCHERS. BECAUSE WITHOUT US DRIVERS, YOUNG OR OLDER, THESE COMPANIES WOULD SHUT DOWN DUE TO NO FREIGHT BEING MOVED, AND NO PAYCHECKS BEING PRINTED. THIS TO SAY, TO ALL DISPATCHERS. YES, WE CHOSE TO BE DRIVERS, HOWEVER, WE MISS OUT ON OUR FAMILIES, OUR HEALTH GOES DOWN THE DRAIN. ALL WE ASK FOR IS RESPECT AND NOT BE TREATED INDIFFERENTLY NO MATTER THE GENDER.
Distasteful Dispatchers
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While I understand your frustrations, just for a minute, look at the issues from the dispatchers side:
their job is to move freight in a timely fashion. If they didn't dispatch the loads, drivers wouldn't have anything to do and everyone goes broke.
You would not believe the number of drivers out there that simply don't do their job. No push, no stretching the limits...just get up and drive as they agreed.
I cannot begin to tell you the number of drivers that get 15 miles from their final, take a 12 or 14 hour break and turn up late by one hour. Or just don't turn up!
Or the number of drivers that accept a load, but dawdle all the way...200-300 miles per day..and the night before delivery, tell us 'I'm going to be late'.
It drives my blood pressure thru the roof, because I like so many others prided myself in never being late, always following thru and doing what I said I would do when I was out on the road.
Oh, and by the way...you'd be surprised how many dispatchers are former drivers. Yes, we had (or have) our CDLs and we understand what the driver goes thru. For some of us, dispatch is where we end up after years of abuse on the road.
Only to see the other side of the coin and shaking our heads in dismay.
To quote the famous philosopher Pogo: "We have met the enemy and it is us" -
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PS, I hate Paris, TN because that's where I got poison ivy on my face.Drifter42 Thanks this. -
Meltom Thanks this.
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Heck even without forklift operators we'd make due as most drivers can operate a forklift.
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