very curious to have this answered

Never - 0 - nada

 

Calls for what to see about your next load?

 

Such a vague question. We all have different jobs, different loads, different customers, different dispatchers and different experience levels.

 

Here's how it works - we are dispatched from the ROC - the Regional Operations Center - none of the DC's dispatch their own drivers - except for 1 that I know of which is Midway Tn - all loads are preplanned based on a drivers hrs. So you NEVER get a call from a DC about a load nor do you get calls from the ROC about loads. As long as you update on your on board computer the number of hrs you have to work, your loads are automatically planned. This is Walmart, there is no constant calling about loads, you don't go sit at a truck stop for 3 or 4 hrs after dropping a load waiting on your next move. You've got 14 hrs to work and trust me, they want to use every minute of it. I hope this has helped with some of the questions you had.