Never driven management...

Interested if you have to deal with management who has never driven a truck. I mean anyone. Dispatchers, Terminal Managers, Fleet Managers, etc.
Interested in if you think they’re competent. What you run into?

 

Yes and yes.

 

most certainly in my earlier years...dispatchers especially.

they get these college edumacted fools, that run a dispatch board.

best dispatchers, and TM's are former drivers.

even company owners too for that matter.

the college edumacated are only book smart, not practical, in the trenches smart.

my current boss/supervisor IS a driver that now basically stays at the office, comes around for only some quick meeting with us, or our yearly safety meetings.

 

I deal with this on my multi-stop runs. The planner knows I know the customers well, and I know the routes better than a computer and he re-routes it as I tell him. The rude dispatcher at my first OTR job? I just tried to call others extensions and avoid.

 

I’m a believer that the problem starts at the top and works it’s way down.

 

The single dispatcher I've had that was a former driver I hated. He was fond of "I used to do that run in x time, you should be able too!" I'm sorfy, but just because you never followed hos doesn't mean I will break them.

At least the college kids (for the most part) are willing to listen when something is explained to them.

 

I believe there just as good as:
Unmarried marriage counselors or
Divorced marriage counselors or people wanting be o/os with no cdl..I think it should be a regulation that you have a lil life experience in your chosen proffesion heck the night shift and weekenders at covenant years ago were all college kids..they were like I couldn't spell freightliner 2weeks ago now I'm dispatching em .

 

Agents/brokers that have never driven a truck.

Let alone platform or oversize.

On the odd occasion in times like these it can be financially lucrative.

 

You don’t need to be able to drive to be a dispatcher. You just need to have the ability to LISTEN to the driver. Every single person in a trucking company is there to help the driver. If they don’t understand this then they are in the wrong profession.

 

I once read a great quote on here about mega trucking companies.

They aren’t trucking companies going corporate, they are the corporate world trying to do trucking.

In other words office politics, cublicles, ladder climbing, fake people, HR, ###-kissing, ridiculous policies, bean counting, etc.