Missed Appointment Times?

Happens all the time in trucking.Lack of communication from your company is what that is.I bet USA shrugged it off when you gave them heck didn't they?Hopefully you don't get a service failure for there screw up.

 

I was desdheaded from Rapid City, SD to Faribault, MN over the memorial day weekend to pickup a load and was told by the shipper that the load was supposed to have been picked up 2 days earlier and nobody showed up. Needless to say, I didn't get the load and ended up sitting for almost 2 days.

 

Always call the receiver. I once had a dispatcher give a wrong appt time by two days, of course it was obvious to me, but it should have been obvious to HIM. I didn't say a word to him. I called ahead and I was so right.

And another tip, ask if you can arrive several hours early - try to stay at the receiver instead of a truck stop - win/win/win.

 

I know how that goes.Thats one thing I don't miss about otr.

 

dispatchers need babysitting worse then the drivers do,lol.

 

I was ok with it though since all the empty miles got added into my next successful pickup.

 

Lol, when I worked for USA Truck, they were very bad about late appts and having drivers drop loads on yard that never got delivered. You could go in Vandalia and West Memphis and see BOLs sitting in the dropped load shelf and see a set of bills 2 and 3 months old and the loaded trailer sitting on the yard that long