What's the stupidest thing you've ever had a dispatcher or office rat tell you?

I used to park my truck at the shop and take the company shop truck home , well one night too tired to drive to the house so I slept in the truck , well the next morning I get up and walk into the office and my dispatcher calls,( now I am around the corner from him ) and asks where I am at ? I walked up right behind him and say you feel that hand on your shoulder??? he about jumped out of his skin . he forgot if the tractor was there and the truck was there that ment I was there ..


or the best phone call in the world , when one of the drivers had a roll over, what did dispatch do , put it on the speakerphone as the driver said you ain't gonna believe what I did .....all while hanging upside down in his seatbelt . we heard him hit the floor when he undid it .

 

"You don't need a doubles endorsement to pull doubles for one trip"

 

The Scene: GJP running a 20' container full of shredded aluminum. Wt = # 37,000#, prone to shifting, to say the least. The outer right front and inner right rear tires are blown.

Crimson Flash Shop: CF Shop.

GJP: Yeah, I've got(explains the situation in clear and concise English).

CFS: Where are you?

GJP: Halfway between Phoenix and Vicksburg(the locations of the only tire shops around).

CFS: Keep going towards Vicksburg.

GJP: No. This is, to say the least, unsafe.

CFS: Well, if they shut you down, at least you'll be closer.

GJP: That's not the #^#& point!! Are you going to pay the fine if I get pulled over? Are you happy with the concept of something this dangerous on the road next to your family?? Get a #### service truck out here or I will drop this trailer on the roadside, bobtail back to Phoenix and pull your spine out your (bunghole)!!

(After a few more calls, they got the service truck out. I left that company soon after, for obvious reasons.)

 

They're right; it's like being in the eye of a hurricane. Deathly still! After you make it past the Doldrums, however, you're back into the gale force traffic....
No longer having to deal with that very area makes me very, very happy.
But I'd like to have seen the person tell you that with a straight face

-- Handlebar -

 

I had a dispatcher call me one time when i was going down the road and i was told on that phone call to disregard the load, i said what load?? Oh they didnt call and tell you about it? no they didnt, oh well never mind and hung up , then another call go get that load, what load? the load i told you to disregard, ok but i dont have any info on it so then i got the info, a few miles down the road and the phone rings again and get told to disregard the load again, ok, so then finally i was to go get the load which i did and then i was about 4 miles from the receiver the phone rings again and telling me to disregard the load as the reciever hasnt got room for it, oh well im here now lol, so i took the load to the terminal a few miles away and the local driver delivered it a day or 2 later..

 

This should give you an Idea why I never got along with a now VP ofr a certain Company. I pulled a load of Rubber up to the yard in IA and had to deliver it to Muscatine later that day well that night at midnight I gained 9 hours I had 4 loads to deliver by 9 AM Muscatine is 60 mins each way. D+H is 15 mins. I was going to be out of Hours basically til Midnight when done. I deliver all the loads get to the yard. He goes I need you to go to Chicago and deliver this load I went NO I can't I am at 70 in 8. He went I do not give a crap what your log book says I will break your ### deliver the load. The funniest thing there was a DOT audit of the Company going on and they overheard him say that.

 

Got a voice mail from my regular dispatcher. "We REALLY need you to come back "on" today instead of tomorrow"

I call back a bit later and say what have you got for me? "Well nothing just now but if we get one I'll call you"

I was all prepared to tell night dispatch I did a Pre-Trip at at 06:30 and could not take their night load.

Finally a call from a night dispatcher. Says I need you to pick up in Houston in the morning. Go look at the QC and send a confirm message.

Bunch of dadgum IDIOTS!

 

Funny how I was the last one to post in this thread months and months ago.

Dispatch at my current employer as almost as screwed up as PAM was. Today I sent a message text-to-computer that I was under a tree outside of SDV at about 16:10. At 16:55 the phone rings and she asks "where are you?"

IDIOTS! MORONS! In this the age of electronic communication the people in the SAME office with one another DON'T!!!

 

What gets me at my company is they can be right across the room from each other and send an email instead of just walking over and talking face to face.

 

I should have mentioned that the "she" that called me has never to my knowledge dispatched me before.

The regular two dispatchers are the ones who don't communicate and I guess that extends to this female as well.