question about load assignments

Yeah that is bs . A team should be getting 1k loads minimum. Especially if u pulling an reefer or van. If it was me id go over that dispatchers head and talk to his boss about it . U did the right thing, standing up for urself. Just follow thru with it and work ur way up the corporate ladder if thats what it takes

 

Actually, I believe you are under contract to pay your loan, not necessarily to work it off with that company.
C.R. England is it, as a prior thread suggests?
You can go to any other company, and as long as you make the loan payments you are golden.

 

It's rare to get a good dispatcher. Yes you can say no to a load, and if you do they'll keep you sitting around with no load at all, or keep giving you crap loads. I worked for 3 companies before buying my own rig, getting my own numbers, and becoming an O/O. Every place I left was over load assignments. Now I get to pick and choose what I want.

 

I had one dispatcher in my life time who was not good match or "Fit" with me. I put up with him like a lapdog for two months. Constant overnight deliveries. 300 here 400 there 500 there trickle down payroll to match. The money was not the problem. I would put away 3 days weekend just to be ready for battle sunday night. A form of war.

I finally called Operations Boss. Told him One of two things will happen today. We change me a dispatcher to a better fit or you find another driver. I had just about had it to my back teeth and tried to keep a lid on it during the call but the fuse ran out days ago.

I had a new dispatcher in a hour. The first thing I asked was to go to Texas and stay on I-10 for the winter. Pipe east chain and cable west from Houston to Jacksonville Fla. 6 months I did that. It was beautiful for a change. 3 day deliveries even on sunday. Round the clock. Muffed the appt time only once by like 10 minutes.

The reason we had to stop was the truck had accumulated about 50 fix it items by then. Being a midroof volvo. You cannot not take care of it. It will find a way to break something. Particularly the plastic toggle switches etc.

The first dispatcher? I don't know him from adam, I hope they buried him deep when he passed. Just someone who was treated badly by life I suppose.

 

You just need to find a better company. I’ve done two sub 300 mile loads in 6 months and maybe once a month pull a 400 mile load. Most of my loads are between 1100 and 1500 miles with the occasional 700 or cross country 2600 mile run. And I am a solo driver.

 

My company doesn't have actual dispatchers.
We have planners, DM's, a computer... and we are dispatched from one of them, usually the computer.

The computer is indifferent, so no problem there.
The DM won't usually pull a load without informing you of why, and try to get something comparable in the meantime.

That leaves the planners for the dirty work of hosing people on a whim.
Maybe someone needed to get home and that was the only load that would get them there.
Maybe they felt slighted because the load was given to the driver by a DM and they just got even.

 

lol this is so true . Who are these people ?

 

sounds like computerized scheduling to me. I was with Schneider and by the end of my run with them I was averaging maybe 250 miles per load as a solo. I started with a new company a month ago and I am averaging 900+ per load.

 

Personally, I've never turned down a load, I've always been glad to have any of them, moving anywhere is better than sitting at a truck stop.
Yeah, it might only be 300 miles from phoenix to LA but once you get to LA theres a 2000 mile run to chicago waiting for you. If your wheels are turning, you're beating the hell out of a lot of guys.

 

I get your a team...however load is a load is a load...run it. If you don't like it then leave. I will warn you though that getting in the habit of dictating what loads are good or bad will be your downfall. Run the load...you work for them. In time it pays off.