So we had picked up a load in LA to Denver, UPS load, the load had two stops, which was weird because UPS was usually drops. So I was like why would we drop this trailer, get an empty, and then drop it at a different UPS and get a different empty? Didn't look right to me, but I ignored it for a bit, finally just before the big mountain there on 70 I asked. About 2 hours from delivery give or take.

So I sent a message to dispatch. "Why are we taking an MT trailer to last UPS?"

Dispatch responds: "Aren't you loaded?!"

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I am a Camaro Girl because IROC!

You have unlimited chances to go too slow, but only one to go too fast.

Got a load of salt, don't remember what state it was in. Was supposed to be a live load but turned out to be preloaded. We sent in the dropped trailer call for trailer 44938, then the loaded call with the new trailer information. Not 10 seconds later dispatch comes back.

"What happened to 44938"

It exploded.

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I am a Camaro Girl because IROC!

You have unlimited chances to go too slow, but only one to go too fast.

When I drove for star out of nashville. Sitting at a train track in chicago. Train kept backing up, pulling up, backing up. (guess he used to drive for swift and couldn't back) anyway back to story.... qual comm beep... hot load better get moving. My reply. Wait for train to clear track or cross track now???? Long silence... beep... do best you can....

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My childhood dream of becoming a truck driver turned into a nightmare!

Oh No how dumb can they get?? I have ran into the same kind of problems must be a blonde

It's always best to wait--- Then a "little" longer...
I was sitting in Dyer, IN one morning. Had just gassed the old L190 up at the Trackside station what gave a $.07 truck discount to driver only. His gas was high, probably $.329. We all coasted in there to fill as 120 gal X .07 = $8.40 / $.05 per loaded mile = 168 loaded mile pay while you pumped it in.
However... I filled up, got the company a receipt and pulled out into US30 westbound, got straight on it, went 50 feet and came upon a two track
RR crossing. L o n g slow freight was moving north into Chicago. I sat awhile, then idly started counting cars. 80 cars pass and I can see the caboose coming up about 5 cars away. Still slow moving. OK. I clutch the old truck, count to 50 to let the tranny stop, palm the shift lever and it slips in 2nd just like a grasping woman. Train moves on, caboose passes, I begin to release clutch and prepare to lunge forward and go on to Wisconsin.
The very next instant the fast passenger outbound from Chicago to Miami blows B- A- W -A -H and shoots across in front headed for Miami on the second track. The plan was that this slow long freight would block several crossings for the passenger to safely blow thru at ??? MPH.
Passenger was a little late or the freight a little early that morning.
Best to wait till you can see up and down the rails a distance.
That old truck still as a row of pinched up places in the middle of the drivers seat

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Yesterday we were taking a load from Paris TX to Ogden UT. We had found that the fastest route was going up thru OK to KS and across WY, was 200 miles more but took off 2 hours strangely enough. That said dispatch said go for it. 18 hours after we are loaded dispatch calls me, are you sure you hooked up to the right trailer?

I am like... what?

Well our logs show you dropped empty # 43392 and picked up empty 43392 as the loaded trailer.

o.0

So I check the paperwork and we are hooked to loaded 43392, apparently my teammate was tired and entered the dropped trailer and the picked up one as the same trailer, but the thing is it they didn't catch it till 18 hrs later?

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I am a Camaro Girl because IROC!

You have unlimited chances to go too slow, but only one to go too fast.

I have had a wonderful dispatcher knowing i had 2 drops, one at 8 am the second at 11 am dispatch me a reload at 8 am the same morning i was to unload the 2 drops, go figure, I called the shipper and told them the dilemma, they said thats ok just get here when you can, Called said dispatcher and told her what she done she simply said oh and thats about all she said, this from a person that used to drive truck for same company, was in new york city and ran over the mayors limo lol mayor Juliani, ruined the limo no doubt and company had to pay for that..

I've got a couple of good ones.

One time I was sitting at our drop yard in Columbus OH. I had dropped a loaded trailer and was sitting bobtail. They send me a preplan to pick up a different loaded trailer there at the yard and take it to the final. I accepted it. A few minutes later I got a message telling me to find an empty. ????!!!! Would you like me hook up to an empty, drive it a few times around the yard, then drop it so I can hook up to the loaded??!!

Another time, I had started at 5:30 in the morning to make a delivery. After I finished with the unload, I sent in a message. Now, we tell them at the close of each load how many hours we have left available that day. It was about 3:00 in the afternoon, I told them 4 1/2 hours. They tell me to DH up to a walmart DC. OK, I did. When I get to the DC, the nice young lady in the office says they need me to do a load, but I have to go through an orientation first, which will be at 7:00, and then I'll do a load for them afterwards. I politely told her my day was up at 7:30. She turned around and said to a man behind her "they sent us another one that's out of hours." He asked me what time I started that day, I told him, and he told me to go ahead and leave. Then he picked up the phone. I imagine someone got an earful!

And my personal favorite. I had stopped for break about 100 miles from the final. I got up in the morning and drove the rest of the way. I was almost there when my Qualcomm beeps. I pulled into the customer about 1/2 hour early for my appt. When I looked at the Qualcomm, it had a message "Good morning. Time to rise and roll to the final" Did they not bother to notice the fact that my truck was already moving in that general direction?

This is my favotite. I picked up a load in Chicago and when I scaled, I was over gross. I called dispatch and this is how the conversation went.

Me: This load I picked up is over gross.
Dispatch: Hold on.

A couple of minutes later, he comes back on the phone.

Dispatch: We called the shipper and got permission for you to break the seal so you can re-arrange the load.
Me: That won't work.
Dispatch: Why not?
Me: I'll still be over gross unless you want me to throw some of the freight out the door.
Dispatch: I don't know what to tell you.
Me: Call the shipper and tell them I'm coming back so they can offload about 3000 lbs.
Dispatch: Ok, guess that'll work.

Sheesh

My company hauls refrigerated, live, and refuse, also some inbound packaging and some back-hauls, which may or not be brokered. Each division has its own dispatch, but sometimes they work at cross purposes.Nothing like getting to take a hot load into downtown Chicago instead of driving to rural Iowa or Minnesota.

Poultry live-haul gets canceled lots, sometimes before we leave, but often times en route, they have canceled me and put me back on as much as 5 hours later, and then I have to push all the way to the farm or risk a bunch mad loaders sparring with me for weeks after. Nobody wins a fight with those guys. One time we had a guy sit for 3 hours at the farm, and they had sent an extra truck in case of breakdown, which they usually cancel early, and he didn't get a single chicken to haul back.

Probably the worst thing that has happened to me, personally, was having breakdowns on the way. I would spend time having the trailer or tractor repaired, only to get canceled because the loaders refused to wait. That is not a good deal for anyone. I get asked "Vhy couldn't you get the load loaded, and back?" with a wheel bearing going out or coolant pouring out as fast as I could put it in, or the truck missing so bad that it was nearly undriveable.

I have a joke about dispatchers, but it isn't kind so I won't repeat it here.