Explain t-call please

From 04/2026 ~ Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

 

You get paid for the portion you do, the other driver gets paid for their part.

 

Sometimes that crap happens. Usually its because there is too much time on a load so it allows the driver to grab something else and keep moving. Or a driver picking it up and t calling to go home, etc. Basically a swap without meeting up with a driver.

 

IWX used to use it as insentive to get us to hustle produce from Salinas to Columbus, Ohio. We would get a message of if you can TCALL that to the Columb us yard by Wed or Thurs am, you dont have to go to Hunts Point. Also turned us for the west coast faster. Normally pickup a preload for Springfield or Kingman.

 

I think it stands for "transfer call" (the 'call' part is what they call the message you send in as in, "load call", "empty call" etc). You're basically dropping the load and paperwork somewhere other than the consignee. Like @wulfman75 said, could be too much time on the load, or in my case a couple weeks ago, a load I didn't have enough hours to complete and they needed to get the load moving, so I initially t-called it at the Mechanicsburg yard, then they changed it and I had to take it to the other driver in Scranton who was gonna deliver it in NH. Back when I was on the TX to AZ loop with Shaffer, there was a regional driver who was shuttling Red Bull loads from the shipper to the yard, basically making the shipper believe the loads were moving towards their delivery. Each one had a trip number, so when he got to the Phoenix yard, he would t-call it and move on to the next one.

 

Terminal call.