is it unreasonable to WANT to know where i am going?

yesterday i finished my regular stone route and i called dispatch (his wife) on the company radio. the boss chimed in and asked her if she had a load to northridge nursery. it would have been a stone load picked up in chafee, ny and delivered to west seneca, ny. i know the route and did it once already. i was fully prepared to do it, no problem since i knew where it was i would have been going. she also said the load was not urgent.

that's the last i heard, the radio went dead for 2 minutes and i assumed for a couple of minutes they had not decided if the load was really going. after two minutes i tried to call them. the radio had an error on the display and i had to reset it.

i was sitting stationary at this point. i reset the radio and when i turned it back on i heard him saying he thought i had the volume off. i immediately called them back and said i had a radio problem. apparently he has no patience because he sent someone else for the load and me back to the shop to wash my truck. i assume NOTHING and was waiting for a response. after a short period of time i realized i had a radio problem and had to reset it. if i wasnt responding to the radio, he should have tried my phone and asked me about my radio. the situation would have been easily resolved.

he asked me if i was moving yet, and i told him NOT UNTIL i know where i am going. i dont think he liked that. too bad. im not moving until i know something.

i was more then willing and able to take this load, i wanted to make myself look good. instead he screwed me over for a simple problem with HIS radio.

 

mapbooks? you mean like company directions? no they dont have anything like that. official directions, they way they want you to travel and not the way the GPS wants you to go?

 

i agree with the though process of knowing where i am going before i leave. i have been staying at this company for a couple of reasons. #1 i have less then a year, im gaining seat time. #2. i do get weekends off, which i have to admit i enjoy. i have intentions of leaving eventually.

i already told him i want to know where im going before i leave. he said we dont have time for that. illogical. it takes 5 minutes to punch the address into the GPS and look at the route. you waste allot more time driving in the wrong direction, turning around and getting lost.

 

HE sent me off in the wrong direction once. the place of delivery had a physical address but he refused to give me that information before i left. he got upset when i went the wrong direction. i even described where i was and where i was going. HE still sent me in the wrong direction. i told him i was passing the southgate plaza. should have been a red flag that he had me make a left on seneca, when it should have been a right.

 

i know they dont have the odd loads at the beginning of the day. this should be very simple. give me ALL of the information over the company radio, where i load and unload. allow me to google the address, write it down and put it into the GPS. then i would ask them if the GPS is taking me the route they want me to drive.

i know its simple but he makes it more complex then it should be.