pesky dispatchers?

If hubby's dispatcher needs to contact him he will send q-com and tell him to call, hubby calls him every afternoon to get next load info.......they dont bother him at all. His company has his cell phone number and any port or anybody else for that matter can call him if need be.......

Answering the call of mother nature is not an issue UNLESS your one of those guys that spends more time in the truck stop than the truck, nobody where hubby works has ever got on him about the time he stops to eat/answer mother nature...

 

Lot of companies have Qualcomm. They also know if the truck is moving or not. I was sitting at a RR crossing waiting on a slow moving train one time in Chicago. Got this annoying beep. Ckecked my message, dispatch told me I had better get rolling. I had a "hot load" that needed delivered on time. I sent back " should I wait till the train clears the tracks?"

 

The qualcomm is like an email. It does beep to get your attention. Most companies you have to stop moving to use the qualcomm if you are a solo driver. If you are a team or a trainer the shotgun can respond. They are nice in a way, but a pain in other ways. I like them if I am having a problem with a dispatcher. They will say call me. The reason is they are trying to cover their backside. On qualcomm you can delete what they send you, but they can't delete what you send them. If they want to talk on the phone it sometimes raises a red flag with me.

Them knowing where the truck is at all times does not bother me. They being able to be a back seat driver from several states away (like the train ordeal) tends to send me out on a limb!

 

I turn it down when I am napping.

 

Are you still talking about the qualcomm here? If so it is not like your laptop. There is nothing to connect. All I ever had was a cell and qualcomm. Never had a laptop in my truck. You would need to ask some of these other drivers about that. Heck when I started driving all I had back then was the dime to drop in the payphone!