What's the stupidest thing you've ever had a dispatcher or office rat tell you?

U.S. disrtibution manager speaking to 30 drivers from the podium at a safety breakfast....... " You're a necessary evil drivers ! We don't want you or anything to do with you and if you don't like that there is 10,000 just like you waiting outside my gate " Now, who wants to run team for me ?

No kidding !!

 

And one more from the drivers side: In so no name greasy spoon....I belly up next to a Haliburton hand and order my java. I have a delivery to his well site so I ask
" where is it? " He says left on x and right on y blah blah blah then about 10 miles down you'll turn right....... and I say exactly 10 ? and he says naw, just look for the skid marks, you can't miss them. It was 3 AM.

 

you should have said "whats the matter do you have a small #####"

 

I get that all the time "We got a mixer in here" or "The truck from home depot fit"

My response always is "Yeah, thier truck wasnt 75' long, didnt have 8 feet of sleeper, and wasnt running a 10'6" spread.

I have had some site managers get extremly angry with me because I wouldnt baja my truck into thier jobsite to unload where they wanted it.

In the end I always got my way.

 

1st company I went OTR for. I am coming home from GA with Peanuts on when I called in my Dispatcher goes were are you I go Bloomington Normal. I was going to Beernuts. My dispatcher goes bring me a case. I go Lyle I am not bring you a case of Beernuts home. If anything you can Drive your but the 30 mins down to the Outlet store to GET THEM YOURSELF. He never did like me.

Best one I ever had was at Millis. Starter went out in my 1st truck I had there. I called breakdown to get a pull start. They go we do not do pull Starts. I went well Menards wants their dock back and we either pull start the truck or they are getting the torches out and are going to cut it up for Scrap right here. Next thing I hear is Hook on the way.

 

Just had one waste five minutes of my time explaining why I can't go 355 miles in 8 hours on the freeway in a rural area. She insisted it would take longer than 8 hrs. Ummm...HUH???

 

Got many 911 stories....but no trucking yet... heres a 911 for ya...Medic 1, you are responding to a 28 y/o male, in cardiac arrest..conscious and breathing, stating he TOOK TOO MUCH METH...hmmm....in arrest, huh?

 

Hmmm...60 mph = 60 miles x 8 hrs = ??? go figure

 

and my reply to this has always been

"and just how do we fit the 53 foot trailer in that COUPLE OF INCHES"???

 

Well, we all know office staff lies as much as they can. I got yanked off a preplan I was looking forward to, and when I asked why the planners made up a story to my dispatcher that I asked to be pulled off of it b/c of the deadhead. Like I'm not going to catch that.

I was also told once that leaking air brakes are no reason for a load to be late. I was at one of our terminals BTW, where it would have been easy to fix it in the morning. In the end, I got my way and got that done before leaving.