Yeah, sounds like a bad dispatcher. Grin and bear it for a while, keep your nose clean and if it doesn't improve, move on. Consecutive months with a single carrier with no violations is what you have to strive for in this business, otherwise don't count on good jobs coming your way. They are picky sons of guns nowadays due to the CSA rules.
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Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by landy77, Jul 3, 2011.
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And that's why truckers have so many health issues. Low pay, long hours and no personal life. Yeah that's a good job.
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After more than a few decades of driving and health issues no one is going to take care of you and your family except you. Not a trucking company or the goverment. Point being is don't make bad decisions because some office guy says its a hot load. There's always another hot load. Hurry when you can. Can you be in Fontana in 1/2 hr? No way it's 4 pm. But it's only 2 inches on the map. That load isn't going to make any difference except in your health in the long end of it. There is life after trucking.
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Life in a truck is no life. Working 8-10 hours a day and trying to have a life out of a small box would be a miserable existence for me. If you don't have family and you wish to retire early, that's great, why not try to work harder and retire 7 years earlier so you can enjoy even more of your life?
If that's not for you that's fine, but there's no call to attack those of us who wish to maximize our hours and income.Big Don and Toothpick1 Thank this. -
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Qualcomm would just have to wait until I finish the bunk time.
Ive fired dispatchers before. Call the supervisor and tell him or her what for and get another dispatcher. The secret to success is to prepared yourself to be fired in turn possibly.
They can plan all they want based on video game hours. It does not make reality possible sometimes.
Ultimately being a team makes Dispatch essentially unable to run us into the ground.
I actually had a oppertunity years ago to be a dispatcher myself and interviewed for it. I spent several nights wondering if I can herd 100 cats east of the mississippi, some who don't need hand holding, others who need it and a percentage who will not perform. Figured I would be dead by now from smoking, drinking and drugs as a side effect of such work.Lepton1 and Dominick253 Thank this.
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