Joe White wrote an opinion piece in Transport Topics 12/1/08, page 9. He said that financial survival of any company depends on productivity, cost control, employee retention, and customer service.
In the trucking industry, those survival factors are most affected by driver managers earning $38,000 to $55,000. In other industries, that level of responsibility would pay $90,000 or more.
Joe White said that driver managers "make hundreds of decisions a week that define each mile's revenue and cost performance, including dispatches, home time, driver performance management, backhaul assignments, breakdown resolution, preventive maintenance scheduling, delay claims and more."
What if DM /dispatchers were paid and treated the same as Truck Drivers?
Discussion in 'Road Stories' started by BigSam, Nov 30, 2008.
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I spent a few months in our safety office this year, a step away form our ops manager and dispatcher. We have a small company (30 trucks). Our ops manager is a former driver. I was amazed what these guys put up with, and the drivers are all well known to all of us, being a small company. I can't even imagine trying to take care of 80-120 trucks on a board, nobody ever happy, everyone constantly belly-aching, etc. I have always had respect for dispatchers, as a rule. They have a tough job... Now granted, these two guys are load planners, dispatchers, routers, everything rolled together. So they have drivers to deal with, as well as brokers, freight managers, etc. not to mention the boss and all the office staff. I would not trade this for any of that. As has been said, once I am out on the road, I only have ME to worry about. We never see the big picture, and ALL that is going on.
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Now that I think about it, my DM doesn't do 80% of the things on that list.rocknroll nik Thanks this. -
Then we all fail to make money. Dm's and office people really can't understand our point of view because their paychecks don't rely on how many miles we run. If they got paid on how their drivers run each week we all would be begging for a break!!!!! -
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[qoute]Driver who pulls out the yard and cuts off traffic causing it to have to stop as you return from your lunch hour. [/quote]
Oh my, how terrible for you, have to wait for a truck for an entire 60 seconds. Probably after the driver got tired of waiting on 30 cars from his own company not having the decency to let him make a turn. You're returning from your lunch hour and that driver is probably headed out for yet another 6 weeks on the road...
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The day will come when he insults a driver and not know the driver is standing there.
Then the driver will have a come to jesus meeting with him where he may actually go a meet jesus. Now if the dispatcher is not lucky he may go see the place that is allways hot -
"Turn signals are not a request"
Think about that for a little bit and get back to us. -
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