Forced dispatch

You're reading way too much into this. Just tell them you're tired and your PTA was set that way for a reason, take the load off me. Swift is not forced dispatch.

 

I had this happen a few times and I'm an owner op. What I learned to do after being burned so many times is to not open the messages til my clocks were almost run down and not answer the phone. They made my life hell and I did it right back on them x10. But that was just icing on the cake as it served a purpose anyway as I was trying to run my business in the negative for the past three years for tax purposes.

I had been dispatched on several mac 30 loads after I sent in mac 31 then argued that I had not accepted the loads via mac 9. My driver manager and I went round and round about this many times. I had her remove the loads and send them as preplans that I would then accept so she could learn the proper procedure.

This started a war between us which was fun for a while like reducing my miles down to 1800 a week for over a year and sending me to drug tests 56 miles away and only giving me 1 hour to get there with 2 addresses to the place and reminding me that if I am late that is a drug test refusal..Well the next time I knew they were trying to get ahold of me for a drug test I ran for a whole week dodging them until I was ready to call in.

I've had em call me on the phone and ask if I would take the load and I told them straight out "not til I read the details on the preplan" and boom the load comes through as both a preplan and load assignment. One of their other favorite tricks is to say you 'read' the message just because you touched it on the screen. So like I say, I just learned to not touch the messages or answer the phone.

One time I picked up a light load going 2000 miles, sent my loaded call and took off. about an hour later I hear my phone ringing in the sleeper and 4 messages came thru all asking me to please turn around and go back to Los Angeles and by the time I get there they will have a shipper set up to fill my trailer and not to worry, if they didn't have a shipper set up I should just circle the neighborhood.

I took it as a request and ignored tit as such and kept driving east. Some time later a Load Assignment came through detailing early and late pickups for this extra stop. I called the terminal at lunchtime and spoke to some rookie DM who told me my loaded call looked good lol, probably didn't know how to look at other screens yet. Anyway my DM was livid that I didn't cover that extra pickup a couple days later when I asked her to fix my empty call as the system was trying to say "Not Arrived At Stop" .

This is just the way it was between us all the time a culture of oneupsmanship and cat and mouse games that was always started on their side, I just made sure to get them back anytime they burned me, like the last time when they booked a hazmat load and tried to force it on me which I refused then I was getting calls and messages like crazy as they had no other hazmat drivers within 500 miles to cover this load. I don't mind helping people but if your culture dictates to do whatever it takes to cover loads including lying to drivers sooner or later you are going to regret it.

 

Some dispatchers have a habit of pushing pretty hard , just run your clock out to its limits so as to not give them any room and they will find some one else to pester .

 

You said you've worked with Swift since 2011. From things I've read and heard they find reasons to fire people after they have driven for them for over two years cause they like to hire new drivers for cheaper money. Might be time to start quickly filling out job applications and finding another job asap.

 

Here we go with another rumor.

 

I've got 3 years in, with no slowdowns in loads.
When I started my mentor had 6. He is still with Swift and doing well.
There are so many with even more years.

I wonder how the OP could know so many details of the pplan without looking at it on the QC, especially if the phone is not set up to receive the pplans.
And the phone messages won't give you miles, only locations and times.

"the last message I could decipher without opening it." How exactly do you do that?

Also, setting your PTA for 20 hours later is a red flag.
I bet you got a message about setting it more than 12 hours ahead?
But that would be for a company driver, and you sound like an O/O since you use the Mac 30.
Well, unless you are platinum. And if you were that high I doubt you would be worrying about these things.

And if you are an O/O - how could they ask you to clean out your truck?

 

Wow! Been with Swift over 9 years, guess I better get into the "Wayback Machine" and start looking for work from 7 years ago! ( I wonder if he even knows about the wayback machine and Mr. Peabody and Sherman! LOL)

By the way I know lots of drivers that have been here longer than I have.

 

I have been told both as far as accepting a load off MAC 30. If after receiving the information, if I find something that I do not agree with, I just cancel and make a phone call. They are supposed to be reworking MAC 30 to give us more info