Is it just me or did they turn off the phones this weekend (5-30/31)?

Sometimes you've just got to laugh.

My Quallcom hasn't worked in 2-months. Frankly I don't miss it, the rest of the truck works well enough and I've found I'm more than capable of delivering loads ontime w/out big brother watching my every move and constantly asking for ETA's.

So of course the powers that be simply MUST have this fixed!!!

I've been in the shop for this fix 3 times in 4 weeks. Yet drivers with more serious mechanical problems (OOS tickets, air problems, motor problems, bad tires) are told to "make due".

So I was directed into a terminal this weekend and,,,, Well we can't tell if it's fixed or not because nobody at Van B seems to want to answer the phone. (last weekend, Memorial Day, they told me to be back online Sunday night effectively cutting my weeked short. Only to find that the phone service on Monday was set to "weekday mode" but the receptionist had taken the day off)

Well now the night/weekend system seems to be dead, all I get is a message from Intertell Voice Processor asking for a specific mailbox prompt. (this is after I was told that they didn't use a voicemail system because it would overload the dispatchers) Well It's not to hard to guess that nobody will be in to check their voice mail untill Monday.

At least I can bobtail around town this weekend. Went to a few bars (#### yeah!) sampled some local flair at a summer street fair, and now I'm off for dinner and a movie at a local mall.

I call it contributing to the local economy.

And if the company "spies" are reading this post and don't want me joyriding around wasting company fuel. GET A CLUE and give me some ####### FREIGHT!!!

 

Heh, well they finally got me a load. <500 mi and it ends in NYC.

On the bright side, I live here and I am schedualed for time off NEXT week.

So if you ARE gonna sit would you rather sit:

a.) at some random Petro/TA/Pilot/Flying J across the country as your money runs out.

~or~

b.) About 1/2 hour from your house where you can bum some home cooking off your folks, see your wife/kids, and if you decide you've had enough you can take 90% of your 'STUFF' off the truck BEFORE you quit and not try to figure out how to get it back across country