Don't be too-hard on the Dispatchers....they die young.....

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  1. RebelYeller5

    RebelYeller5 Light Load Member

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    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.
     
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  3. FLATBED

    FLATBED Road Train Member

    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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  4. rollin coal

    rollin coal Road Train Member

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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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  5. Trckdrvr

    Trckdrvr Heavy Load Member

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    Truth...and don't forget the shop.
     
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  6. OFTOTR

    OFTOTR Medium Load Member

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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!

    The trucking companies use the 'dead' story to cover up the truth.
     
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  7. Pedigreed Bulldog

    Pedigreed Bulldog Road Train Member

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    I've always found it easier to train a new dispatcher if they AREN'T a former supertrucker/legend-in-their-own-mind. When you try telling them that something cannot be done legally, and their response is "We used to do that all of the time..." 50 years ago & hopped up on pills, with 3 log books and a handful of driver's licenses from various states. It can't be run like that anymore, and the former truckers seem to be the most persistent in pushing you to keep trucking when you are out of hours, tired, severe weather, etc...

    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.
     
  8. superflow

    superflow Road Train Member

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    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
    when he finally catches him after work ...." he he he"
     
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  9. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    In the LTL sector that should be mandatory.

    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.
     
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  10. Tenn I See Trucker

    Tenn I See Trucker Medium Load Member

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    My dispatcher and I getalong awesome! Thats because I have been on the other side.I dispatched when I first got out of college,then I got my CDL and hit the road.He likes the way I communicate everything to him,it avoids problems later on,I always try to be proactive so problems don't arise. Communication,TIme Management and Safety have gotten me over 2.5 million safe driving miles,and have made me a lot of money.I respect Dispatchers if they respect me.
     
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  11. 281ric

    281ric Road Train Member

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    maybe , maybe not . a lazy person that doesnt pay attn to detail will not change because he bounce around in a truck for a week. A useless lump is just that, dispatcher, driver mechanic or in any postion or any industry.

    They still get paid the same amount and sometimes theres no accountability.
     
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