Bothered by company on "home time"?

From your House. Home time. Ok. Thats a stretch. Not sure I can make the reach.
Several times I have had my dispatcher call me. Hey where is the paperwork on load 97231.
its in the folder on my passenger seat. Ok whats you tractor number. Its 642. Yep there it is got your paper talk to you later.

 

Put the driver out of service for a false log. The dispatch paper work showed dispatched while on his break. DOT asked if he had communicated with the dispatch and he said yes. So, it was classed as on duty not driving and OOS for false log with the fine.

 

Well Ron White said it best.
You cant fix _____

 

Can be turned several ways.

____________ for not following the law.

____________ for not thinking faster.

____________ for having bad luck with the inspector digging.

 

I have always been asked when I go home "If we need you can we call you?". I answer is always "Yes, if you REALLY NEED me call". I have done very well doing those little favors because I don't do it for nothing.

 

Most often though those "little favors" are one way only!!!
The minute YOU need a "little favor", let us know how they respond!!!

 

So how does he "miss the call"? If the person on the other end leaves a voice mail (they should) then you listen to the voice mail, and if it's a paperwork issue, you call back and resolve it. If they want you to go out early and you don't, you ignore it.

 

They forgot what that thing sticking out of the side of the steering column is.


I think the problem was communication, maybe someone didn't look at the load info more carefully, or your dm might have been swamped with phone calls, etc and just glanced at the info, sent it through, and didn't catch the error before you got it. I'm lucky where I'm at, I'll get set up for the weekend, either a load going through the house, or if it my weekend to run, it'll have a nice delivery time just after the weekend and I don't get bothered much (if at all)at home or during that weekend, unless all hell breaks loose and someone fails to pickup a load, crashes, or DOT decides to do a weekend surprise.

 

I got road sick once, but mom had the foresight to have a puke bucket in the back of the station wagon.

 

It goes back to Pavlov's dog research. If the phone rings, some people think they have to answer it as a response.