Who has the dumbest dispatchers?

When I drove for star out of nashville. Sitting at a train track in chicago. Train kept backing up, pulling up, backing up. (guess he used to drive for swift and couldn't back) anyway back to story.... qual comm beep... hot load better get moving. My reply. Wait for train to clear track or cross track now???? Long silence... beep... do best you can....

 

Oh No how dumb can they get?? I have ran into the same kind of problems must be a blonde

 

It's always best to wait--- Then a "little" longer...
I was sitting in Dyer, IN one morning. Had just gassed the old L190 up at the Trackside station what gave a $.07 truck discount to driver only. His gas was high, probably $.329. We all coasted in there to fill as 120 gal X .07 = $8.40 / $.05 per loaded mile = 168 loaded mile pay while you pumped it in.
However... I filled up, got the company a receipt and pulled out into US30 westbound, got straight on it, went 50 feet and came upon a two track
RR crossing. L o n g slow freight was moving north into Chicago. I sat awhile, then idly started counting cars. 80 cars pass and I can see the caboose coming up about 5 cars away. Still slow moving. OK. I clutch the old truck, count to 50 to let the tranny stop, palm the shift lever and it slips in 2nd just like a grasping woman. Train moves on, caboose passes, I begin to release clutch and prepare to lunge forward and go on to Wisconsin.
The very next instant the fast passenger outbound from Chicago to Miami blows B- A- W -A -H and shoots across in front headed for Miami on the second track. The plan was that this slow long freight would block several crossings for the passenger to safely blow thru at ??? MPH.
Passenger was a little late or the freight a little early that morning.
Best to wait till you can see up and down the rails a distance.
That old truck still as a row of pinched up places in the middle of the drivers seat

 

I have had a wonderful dispatcher knowing i had 2 drops, one at 8 am the second at 11 am dispatch me a reload at 8 am the same morning i was to unload the 2 drops, go figure, I called the shipper and told them the dilemma, they said thats ok just get here when you can, Called said dispatcher and told her what she done she simply said oh and thats about all she said, this from a person that used to drive truck for same company, was in new york city and ran over the mayors limo lol mayor Juliani, ruined the limo no doubt and company had to pay for that..

 

I've got a couple of good ones.

One time I was sitting at our drop yard in Columbus OH. I had dropped a loaded trailer and was sitting bobtail. They send me a preplan to pick up a different loaded trailer there at the yard and take it to the final. I accepted it. A few minutes later I got a message telling me to find an empty. ????!!!! Would you like me hook up to an empty, drive it a few times around the yard, then drop it so I can hook up to the loaded??!!

Another time, I had started at 5:30 in the morning to make a delivery. After I finished with the unload, I sent in a message. Now, we tell them at the close of each load how many hours we have left available that day. It was about 3:00 in the afternoon, I told them 4 1/2 hours. They tell me to DH up to a walmart DC. OK, I did. When I get to the DC, the nice young lady in the office says they need me to do a load, but I have to go through an orientation first, which will be at 7:00, and then I'll do a load for them afterwards. I politely told her my day was up at 7:30. She turned around and said to a man behind her "they sent us another one that's out of hours." He asked me what time I started that day, I told him, and he told me to go ahead and leave. Then he picked up the phone. I imagine someone got an earful!

And my personal favorite. I had stopped for break about 100 miles from the final. I got up in the morning and drove the rest of the way. I was almost there when my Qualcomm beeps. I pulled into the customer about 1/2 hour early for my appt. When I looked at the Qualcomm, it had a message "Good morning. Time to rise and roll to the final" Did they not bother to notice the fact that my truck was already moving in that general direction?

 

This is my favotite. I picked up a load in Chicago and when I scaled, I was over gross. I called dispatch and this is how the conversation went.

Me: This load I picked up is over gross.
Dispatch: Hold on.

A couple of minutes later, he comes back on the phone.

Dispatch: We called the shipper and got permission for you to break the seal so you can re-arrange the load.
Me: That won't work.
Dispatch: Why not?
Me: I'll still be over gross unless you want me to throw some of the freight out the door.
Dispatch: I don't know what to tell you.
Me: Call the shipper and tell them I'm coming back so they can offload about 3000 lbs.
Dispatch: Ok, guess that'll work.

Sheesh