Dispatches not legally possible. Do them anyway?

There are anti corection laws dating to about 2012. Find a chief poobah within your outfit with a print out of that law chapter and verse, document the abuse you felt from dispatch towards that level.

IF Poobah does not calm you down and bite dispatch a few times then you find a lawyer and see if you have something there, particularly if they brand you with fire and brimstone a service failure. I knew your next shipper aint going to have the numbers, that is a another act by dispatcher to twist blade in your back.

 

Here is what you do. You go pick up the load. Once out of ours park your truck until you can legally drive again. It is really that simple.

 

My company service failure is being so late to a point that the customer refuses delivery. Usually if you’re an hour late and they take it they don’t count it against you. Even if they reschedule doesn’t count against. But when the company has to eat the cost of goods and there’s no valid reason for being late yeah they call it a service failure. Haven’t hit one yet and I’ve had to loads late because of the shipper or me picking it up from a lazy driver.

 

JIT was created back in the early 90's ATS clammed me with 3 service failures at a reciever up near Ann Arbor who could not be bothered with appt times with 50 trucks down the street waiting for 4 docks. They keep telling me to get there when I get there. I told them I don't care for corporate suit babble. And the the load to that particular out fit will continue to rack it up I literally don't have ears or the time to worry about that.

That did not go over well with them. 4 stories of suits and office politics they can choke on their own reports.

I do not get pushed over often. I don't let it happen.

HOWEVER. ONCE in a while.... they get on knees that creak and ask "Please"

You bet *Tosses logs into the back let's go. If only...

 

Back in the 80s all the auto plants used trailers as rolling warehouses basically.
Sometimes it was a drop and sometimes a live unload but that was assembly line work.
I think warehouses do it now to save the space at truckings expense

 

Yes, In the early time we just had a appt DAY either morning or night specifically. Herds of trucks show up. They still have to unload it big or small. It matters not.

It's when they sitd toilet paper with a 3:10 appt time under JIT conditions approaching warfare where i smell the BS for decades. Its NOT THAT IMPORTANT. Takes them a #### month to sell it all.

Thats why I haul high dollar medicines if I get back into it successfully about a year from now (Working on clearing narcotics from my system for hair and urine...) show up at DC at sunrise unload, reload with bales in 40 minutes straight back to Memphis asap they are working another drop hook outbound with my name on it.

NO ########.

The only time they varied that routine was the morning of 9-11, theoratically we were 5 hours late waiting for the attacks to calm down three miles from the DC in a hidey hole (They did not say a #### word about THAT....) and reloaded us to the nuts with only god knows how many millions in everything until the doors barely shut straight to NYC.

That trip we were under warfare conditions and it was there probably less than 24 hours. I will never ever forget crossing the GWB on the 12th at 930 eastern looking down river at the burning piles. That only made me and wife commit harder to what we were doing.

Appt times and JIT is bad enough. But when Dispatch starts throwing a hissy fit, bully, threaten or whatever... I just hang up on them and get there when legally get there. They can do some more yelling (And did.)

I slam the logs in their face and say this. is. legal. Your bellering and noise about service failure against these logs legally run is BS your ignoring my requires for new appt is BS and so on stacking verbal charges against the suit, safety suit is listening and recieved my documents. Then I say two more things.

First, say you are sorry and we are square.

Second if they do not, I quit. any noise they make is BS, they can take it up with the State Employment and Labor Board when they get this same exact information so I can be awarded for cause right quick.

Once one company staffer backed down and begged. I said thats BS too. You should have gotten a new appt time a week ago, but no you stupid bully (Dispatcher) got stubborn and loud and here we are. I still quit.

That company went out of business 3 months later. When I found out I had this... pleasure a joy come over me. They deserved it.

But... in the end there needs to be a systematic elimination of all dispatch bulling. That also means that even the most newbie driver should know for sure in stone that dispatch cannot force them to run illegal.

But I don't know how.

I think the companies that royally fired me loudly took great pleasure in eliminating me because now they can mule 10- newbies who are scared of them and cower yesmen to run anything illegal.

 

Still following, O/P. Let us know it works out, and be strong about your decision to 'stand up' and STAND BY your decision.

Again, condolences regarding your mom. I'd've parked it last week if I heard my mom passed...(and my company KNOWS that and would endorse it.)

Greener pastures are out there, mate. Get through this, and ... move on *and up!*

Best wishes;
Tomcat

 

I don’t get the problem here.
If dispatch wants me to run a load, and I know full well that it will take X time to get to shipper, and X time to go from shipper to receiver, the variable being the Y time of getting loaded once at shipper. The times for these things is reasonably estimated, the break times are again known.
So dispatch is given a number of hours from this time to a minimum ETA to delivery subject to load time. If you can’t figure this out, then perhaps you need to consider a different career. If that’s outside what they want, then put it on another truck, or reschedule things to make it work.
If your dispatch personnel can’t work with that, then a serious problem exists and some thought needs to be put into the next conversation you will have with a company representative. This May come in handy; That delivery can not be legally completed as planned.

 

I agreed from the get'go. Others thought it possible and even probable. Nope.

 

Don't forget, @x1Heavy ... this is NOT the guy that was asking about hauling Rx's..... that was @GhentSaintPeters .. and you T"C"O that. Wouldn't want it myself, nope.

If I'm late to Hz or CMB's (insert vowels et al) with boxes, their production doesn't stop, I still am alive, and have my job. (AND my family.) Y'all keep the HiVal stuff on that other thread, haha~! (Think you talked him out of it, anyway~!)