Dealing With Dispatch

Truckers skew older as a demographic while dispatchers tend to be young - freshly minted English and Communications majors making ill use of their degrees as no one pays for knowledge of 19 th century romantic poetry. Isn't it hard to listen to instruction on how to do your job from someone who has never done your job? A Mature person would not be so presumptuous and that is the point. (I may post another thread about "safety talks" from people who have never driven a truck).

What follows is a video about my most recent dysfunctional communication with dispatch and how I deal with this kind of thing. The main point is to accept this differential in age/maturity (generally speaking) between drivers and dispatchers and from the "adult" position, better manage our experience with dispatch. I have recorded a whole series of videos on this subject and would welcome some feedback from my comrades on TTR before I post them all to YouTube.

 

Thanks for the reply. If this kind of thing happened daily, then I would just get another job. Inevitably, we get thrown to the "new guy" - dispatch has nearly as much turn-over as driving. So, what interests me is managing the situation I am already in before going to the nuclear option.
I am well paid and like my job but - I got a new dispatcher and this is a little documentation of the "break-in" process.

I think this kind of B.S. is common and so thought it worth a thread.

 

I love literature too but it is an interest and not a vocation. Too many youngsters seem to think that dropping 50 grand on a social psychology major will somehow pay off in the mysterious future.

 

The male brain is fully developed by 26 so - yer in the zone.
Why did you dislike teaching? - kids today ...hell in a hand basket and all that?

 

Yeah, in today's permissive culture it seems to take special skills and and desire to be effective in the constrained environment of socially and politically monitored classrooms.

Regardless, I hope you consider your time studying literature well spent. The breadth of context it gives our perceptions as well as the sheer pleasure from great story telling is something everyone could enjoy - but like much of what is best in life, money is not part of the picture.