Has your Dispatcher ever written you up for using the restroom?

That would be the last phone call I’d ever answer from that dispatcher. No one has told me when or where I can take a bathroom break since I was in elementary school fifty plus years ago!

 

All I’m going to say is I’ve fired customers for being disrespectful to my drivers in the past, and I’d do it again today if need be. And they sure as #### don’t get treated like that when they’re here. I’m with the other posters, you don’t need that job that bad.

 

Find a real company or better yet buy your own truck. I did and my only regret is that I didn't do it sooner. The company I'm leased on to treats owners well.

 

Dump that junk into the next lake you see and go home.

 

Then I think it's safe to assume your dispatcher only uses the restroom on his unpaid lunch break? If not, he hasn't got a dang thing to say about it.

 

Assuming he’s paid by the mile every minute of the day is his. I wouldn’t put up with that.

 

I’m not nice. I am ugly. I am expected to be ugly. Boss BeyotchWannabe was betting that I would get ugly. So she plays the Boss ####### card believing that she could push my buttons (which is an attempt to activate inner demons, which if repressed could possibly escape and cause a loss of self control. But my demon is an outer demon, so it has immunity.)

Because whispering is more difficult to hear, it forces people to listen.

 

Hmmm, inquiring minds want to know how the dispatcher knows when you are going to the restroom?

 

Some serious issues with this company when you have to get permission to take a dump, do you think those office workers have to ask permission when ever they need to take a pee pee? Best company to work for is the one that leaves you alone they can just monitor your progress on the satellite tracking and maybe only give you a call if there is a really long delay just to check if everything's ok. The company I worked for you basically never heard from them at all during the entire trip unless of course there was some kind of delay and the customer was calling up waiting for his freight this only happened to me once in a 12 month period I got pulled up at the DOT in Utah near Brigham City UT POE and was only 5 minutes over on my logs got held there for my 8 hour break and naturally told the customer to be waiting for me at 7 am needless to say I didn't get there till 9 am and he was spitting chips.

 

Who's IN CHARGE Of The Equipment When It's Not On A Company Yard??
Unless The Equipment Is Being Repaired Or At A Shop, The Assigned Driver Is In Charge When Not OFF DUTY At Home or In A Hotel.

The DRIVER Decides WHEN, WHERE to stop for any or no reason without question.
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I worked for a local O. O. who had a small outfit with four Freightliner (autoshift) Sleeper Units and a few Trailers plus two local 6 wheel box straight trucks and a ford diesel 4 wheel van.
He decided a couple years b4 "I QUIT" (April '18) to require 4 hour "check calls" during Runs.
Well, We agreed occasionally and often just ignored the "requirement", except at arrival/departure points for Freight pick up/delivery, as well when/where we parked for a ten, then when we departed.
Such "lapses of memory" were fun because we were on Dedicated Turns running separate times.

They tried chastising us as well getting all bent outta shape but had no recourse other than whining, cause we Drivers could have just walked away and they then would've been partially shut down.
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Anyways, WHEN The DRIVER IS IN CHARGE of The EQUIPMENT, HE and/or SHE IS IN CHARGE OF THE EQUIPMENT.