Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Well, I guess word has gotten around in Lincoln not to call me when I am on a break.(As in DON'T POKE THE BEAR).(The wife and I referrence the old Life cereal commercial "I'm not gonna try it, you try it...I'm not gonna try it... let's get Mikey"...only it's I'm not gonna call him, you call him...let's get Mikey). On my way to deliver in Lima (that delivered at midnight Sunday night/Monday morning) I got a 2 stop preplan. Delphos, OH to Olney, IL (live unload) and Clarksville, AR (drop). The live unload was for 18:30 Monday night (18 hrs after delivering in Lima - 350 miles away). The only way I could legally do it was split log a break. I managed to get to the Love's in Olney 9 hours before my appointment, so I went into my sleeper part of my split (an 8 hour nap). When I got up to go pee and get moving to the DC, I saw a message...one of the other dispatchers messaged me and after multiple apologies for calling during my break, asked if I could help get a load from Effingham to the Wally dc south of the Columbus terminal by 4 am Tuesday morning because one of his drivers ran out of hours. Of course I didn't get any phone calls because I now go to sleep with my phone in airplane mode so nobody can get thru. When I saw the message it was already after 17:00, so I messaged that there was no way I could legally do it, and I wasn't giving up on the 1500 additional miles I had to run on the load I had plus the preplan all because somebody doesn't know how to trip plan.

Now, my next load is from Rogers AR to Wintersville, OH that picks up Wednesday and delivers Thursday evening. After I got done dropping the 2nd stop on the Delphos load in Clarksville, and was headed to the Love's on I-49 before it filled up, I get this message





To which I replied





This is on top of the DAILY hounding about watching some video on the tablet about winter driving...which I have gone thru (I didn't watch it, I just let it play the other day w/o sound while I made dinner.) Like some cubicle dwelling desk driver in safety has any real experience driving a truck in winter. This place has become a serious joke of a company. They obviously think we are totally ignorant dimentia patients that need this much reminding to do trucking-101 level duties.

 

And the insanity continues. Get to Tyson 45 min before my live load appointment. Go to check in and....the load has been postponed until Friday because of a lack of product. The part that pisses me off is, they sent an email to Lincoln YESTERDAY, (not sure when)...but I bet that our CSR has it in their inbox, but never got around to reading it. All that ######## about "hurry hurry, get to the shipper, Tyson is watching this load closely" was for nothing.