So how does one deal with dispatch that only give good runs to those who pay him?

Quit, take bad runs, or just pay him.

 

No offense, but you don't have proof So it's kinda hard to say he's taking money. No it's not fair. just got to make the best out of the situation.

 

No, not very common. I suppose it can happen in some particular operations and perhaps this is the case, or may also be just a sense he has that may or may not be accurate. In some situations, the guys who have proven themselves to be effective get the better runs and the guys who have proven themselves to be in-effective and/or undependable get the crap runs. And in some places it's a matter of seniority or "politics" that comes into play. It's not right generally speaking but it can and does happen sometimes.

But, if he's certain of this and he's as good as anyone else there, I'd move on to elsewhere if I were him.

 

find a way to solve that dispatchers problem account. suck it up for a couplea loads. you could turn golden overnight. worked for me

 

Change jobs. No it's not common; your husband is just with the wrong company. Real simple, change jobs. I know an assistant terminal manager that took bribes from a broker to hold trucks for him. Terminal manager couldn't understand why trucks were sitting for days when other brokers were trying to get loads covered. Assistant terminal manager was caught, but with no paper trail he kept his job. which was fishy to me. He was also caught with time cards in his desk and writing in times for people that didn't work that day. One local driver was being paid for 90 hours a week. I quit and went somewhere else; so did some of the other drivers. Another company bought them out and fired the asst. terminal manager and the local driver.

 

Just like in high school, there are teacher's pets, and then the low life's that think...... they are getting ahead by paying for special treatment or those that let someone grease their palms.

Tell your husband to hold his head up, and he will know that the money he brings home, he earned.... can look at himself in the mirror, is not buying his children's food, shoes and clothes with another drivers money, and is not some diabolical dispatcher's toddy. In the end, one that sucks or pays up is a slave with a master, and it usually does not end well.

What happens when one accepts, pays for and receives favors, and is home wanting to go to his daughter's recital, or take his wife out for their anniversary dinner and the low life dispatcher calls and needs him to take a so called hot load? See where this is going....never, ever...let someone own you.

"Take a dime that does not belong to you, and it will cost you a hundred dollars before your life is over..."

Like has been stated, everyone knows who is on their knees.....

 

I would look at it as the cost of doing business.