How the heck do you put up with this? Reefer and sitting.

We don't deal with the same shippers/receivers @Tb0n3 . The ones I deal w/ ask for my # so that they can call me when a door is available. I can understand why you'd stress, but I we live two different realities on this road. I haven't experienced any of what you've mentioned at this company. It's actually the easiest trucking job I've had over my 12 year career tbh

 

Sounds like you are on with the wrong company.

 

Feels like the OP is running load board refer stuff.

I was fortunate in that most of the refer stuff I ran was from established accounts and shippers.

One place that I was leased to as an Owner OP was the internal long haul group for a produce company.

After calling dispatch the third time about a messed up shipper, the dispatcher conferenced in the corporate buyer. Buyer had heard enough and decided to mess with the shipper and canceled a weeks worth of product. That was 35 truck loads of produce. Corporate had a minimum of 5 truck a day coming out of that place. Over the next 6 months that I was with that company I was never dispatched back to either of their locations. Not sure fences were ever mended.

 

-Grocery warehouse in NJ
-Keasby
-Wakefern

This one checked all the boxes.

Everything about this load was wrong from the start.

Do you drive for a mega fleet ?

 

Did the winter storms throw off dispatches plans?

Communication is one of the keys. Keep Dispatch up to date on the things that could cause stress for either of you. That may include letting them know to reschedule the delivery for a non accommodating receiver, or at least dispatch asking the receiver to allow taking some time in their yard.

Dispatch is like a manager, they can't properly manage if they don't know what's going on.

 

The only reefer work to be involved in is with a private fleet.

 

Bingo -- nailed it....

 

absolutely