All the stress eats them alive. When you look at the Obits and see some poor devil who died of leukemia at age 57. That's the future of the guy on the phone who has just lied to you. Only the Good die young....WRONG! Dispatchers do also.
Don't be too-hard on the Dispatchers....they die young.....
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Every driver should do a stint behind the dispatch desk just as dispatchers need to do a stint out on the road, be a whole nicer world for a lot of people after they get a TASTE of both sides of trucking
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Takes a special person to dispatch and dispatch well. If you have drivers who take things in stride, the good with the bad, it makes it easier. You can clue drivers like that in on things a lot more so than drivers who always want easy street and complain about every little thing. My feeling is when drivers like the latter start asking lots of questions there's a whole lot of dancing going on just to get them to move on and do the job. Which has to be frustrating. I wouldn't want that job no thanks.
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Most don't last more than a year. That's when they get the first paid vacation.
They jump in the car and decide to have a holiday in some interesting place that is only a few inches away on the map.
Some die after falling asleep while driving.
Others run out of gas and are run over by sleepy truckers, as they sit in the stalled car in the middle of the highway.
(The truckers are mumbling about stupid dispatchers at the time they plow over them)
I saw one walk into a truckstop, dazed, lost and confused. He was on vacation and actually made it two states away!
He was crying, said he was out of gas, had no money, needed to go home.
One driver told him he needed to plan his trip better. No excuses.
I think that dispatcher is still living in the dumpster behind the restaurant.
Ever had a homeless person walk up to you in a truck stop or rest area?
You guessed it! Former dispatcher!
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I've always liked dispatchers who were moonlighting while going to school or still wet behind the ears in the industry. They tend to listen to what you have to say in regards to what is going on out in the truck, and the regulations that govern how we do our job.skyviper73, Trckdrvr and Tenn I See Trucker Thank this. -
Or how bout the dispatcher ,who thinks he's your boss and makes all the rules ,that you have already violated but tells you he is going be merciful on you and not tell the boss ,then there's the old classic dispatcher lie .....
" be there at 6am ,the frght will be ready to rock & roll " or how bout the old heat trick ,schedule a load with a near impossible window time so they can hold it against you later ,over the yrs a drivers learns all their dirty little crafty schemes ....gotta have a tough skin in business or a driver could start thinking about bad things to do to that office boy
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Everyone who makes decisions that in some way affect a driver's day should be required to spend a week on the road with a driver of their choice, or perhaps a different one every day. It could be the ones who complain the most and the least.
Maybe then these folks would learn the reasons behind some of the issues that they so often blithely dismiss as laziness or incompetence.Night Prowler, FLATBED and superflow Thank this. -
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They still get paid the same amount and sometimes theres no accountability.
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